Bill McNulty wrote:
Looks like a knockoff of the Clouser crayfish but using foam instead of
feathers for the legs. Yuck! Check out Clousers crayfish if you want to use
these killers. They should be outlawed for smallmouth.

Actually I could just as easily make the reverse argument.
I first published this fly in a magazine back in the late
1980s. Can't remember which one: was it Marty Sherman's Flyfishing,
or TU's Trout...something like that.
I tied it with chamois then, instead of foam.
Then I added foam underneath the chamois, and then
I threw out the chamois.

Claiming ownership of a pattern seldom turns out well.
When I first published the Chamois pattern (same as this one,
with chamois swapped out for foam) I immediately got into
an acrimonious ownership dispute with a well known fly
tier who wanted to claim ownership for some obscure royalty
reasons. My photograph appeared in print before his, so
I won the ownership dispute.....no royalties though.

If the Clouser had foam pinchers, like mine, then it would be good fly.
:-)

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