Back in '09 while killing some time during last weeks ice storm ( does this sound familiar) I created a few size 12 micro clousers from white deer hair ad chartreuse kip tail and small flash. They turned out well the bead chains were the smallest I could find 5/64.
Here are some photos:

I tied a few of these:

Now I further challenged myself by creating a clouser smaller than what I had earlier used. I chose to make one with synthetic craft fur and extra small flash and bead chain from a nipper I am pleased with the results and I think you will be too.
size 14 clousers with synthetic


difference in bead chain eye sizes are evident here:

for camparison a larger size12 tied with synthetics top and 14 on the bottom row


Let me know what your ideas are and how small you feel you can go with this!

Les

Les, those look perfect. I love them. I know those are fish catchers for sure. Super job!

Here are some #10's I've been tying this week.

Great little flies there Jerry. Fish catching machines...:-)

A size 14 clouser? Les, has cabin fever set in?

Nice! Perfect for creek chubbin!

Yeah, and I'm about to work on my vice, oops I meant "vise".

I'll tell you, sometimes a sz 12-14 little streamer or clouser is just right for slamming the white bass.

This is a size 14. That's about as small as I can go.

Good Lookin stuff folks

He said "kip tail," he-he.

Nice flies.

I've lashed a few of these as well, albeit in much louder colors to entice the bream (at least when the water is still in its liquid form). The biggest problem I have with them is making sure I tie them with the bucktail short enough. I seem to end up with a lot of extra length. That would probably be less of a problem if I tied smaller stuff more often and stepped down from a 2/0 to a 12 more gently.

Les, I love how the picture below shows off the perfect profile you tied on this clouser. I don't know why I don't pay more attention to what it looks like from below instead of just from the side.

Thanks Dusty.
I like trying to find the happy medium between too much and too little-especially in dealing with clousers. The craft fur offers bulk withiut too much floatation as with deer hair.

I have wondered that if a tyer intended to make a floating foam dumbell eye clouser- shouldn't the profile still remain sparcely tied?
What are your thoughts.

Les

Well a clouser sitting near or on the surface of the water is going to be seen by the fish in conditions that are relatively more bright than one fished in the murky depths. Therefore I would tend to think that it might need to be a bit more bulky than a standard clouser to show a better profile than the "impression" a sparsely tied clouser gives when it's fished at depth. I'm not sure if that makes sense or not.

I've been tieing micro clousers with Super Hair. It's brighter than Calf Tail and for me, easier to use. I don't think I've gone to a sz 14 yet, but lot's of 10s and some 12s. I also picked up some DNA fiber. Similar to Super Hair, but a different texture and glows a bit more.

You mean like this?

Jerry, the dumbell eyes being foam means that rides hook point down*, right?







*AKA clouser-upside-down.

In England they call those Boobie flies. And not because they're silly...

last year on the "unkown river", i met a gentleman from the waco fly fishing club, and he swore that a clouser for fishing sandies, had to have brown and orange in it. and he backed it up, by literally catching a fish on every cast. i was pretty impressed, until i did the same thing!! using the andy moreau flies. however, i know carry that pattern with me at all times, for that special time when that is what they want!!

Wonder where I put those size 16 streamer hooks.

Have fun with this stuff.

Big Dale

Yes, just like all topwater flies.

OK, all of them. Got it.

I'm mostly laughing at myself on this one, Jerry. About half the clousers I tie end up being upside down because I get too excited about lashing and don't pay enough attention to what I'm doing.

I like that frog pattern- or would you call it an injured frog?

All my frogs look injured, even when I'm trying to tie healthy ones.

The top frog is an atrocity I created based on Charlie's Plopsicle. The bottom one was tied by someone else and is an Australian pattern called the Gutless Frog. We had a nice discussion on it at the link below back in 'aught nine.

http://texasfishingforum.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/3848934/1

I well recall the Gutless Frog thread. That was a good one.