A Mouthful
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Mouse fishing at night is one of the most effective ways of catching a big fish in the Midwest, especially in farm country.
I had a friend fishing a gurgler type pattern too and he had a few hits on it but it didnt yield much.
I’ll second tim on that, the whole mousin thing has been a bit of a local’s/guides secret here in michigan until the last couple years.
I’ve got nothing really, never had much of a problem missing fish on gurglers, mine always have tails though FWIW.
That is so cool Tim!! I have a rather large selection of antique fly’s and one of them is a mouse pattern that is around 80 years old, it is nice to see that people are still using these patterns with good results.
Awesome fish Tim!
We’ve just had a decent mousing year down in NZ. Every few years or so our native Beech trees flower and seed and the following year there is significantly more food available to the wee fellas. This in turn allows a population explosion and as the mice eat out their food sources they forage further and become vulnerable to trout. (I suppose a puddle to a mouse is the same as a lake so they just need to see whats on the other side? ::))
I’ll try and find some photos that I can stick up. The fish, when they key into this phenomenon really pack on the weight and its pretty exciting fishing. We found hooking them was also a bit hit and miss,
This image is from a fish and game article on the mice and just goes to show how many these guys can scoff. Not all the fish, where we were, keyed in on this protein furball but the ones that did were normally pretty solid.
Heres a link to Carl’s mouse movie. This is where we were fishing
Simon,
I saw a photo similar to that one in a fly shop in Christchurch.
Yea, basically anywhere where there is decent beech forest, (West Coast, Top of the South, Fiordland) you’ll find mousing fish. Lots of dead fish photos in NZ still unfortunately. This photo was in one of the magazines and has appeared in several articles on the mousing plague.
Did you fish any of the “secret spring creeks” around Christchurch? We’re you here in a mousing year Tim?
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