I'll get this started with a little video shot in Michigan. Spork is determined to mouse up a big brown in our local rivers. With four trips under his belt his has yet to bring one to the boat.
https://youtu.be/NHs9U9qz2Vo
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We tried night fishing with big top water flies years ago on the Smith, in the Mirror Pool, in the Scum Sucker Pool (that deep pool/glide half way down the riffle area below the Mirror Pool), and in the Left Hander Pool (the next pool downstream, that shallow pool with deeper cervices towards the tail on the right descending side). No Luck!!! We did freeze our asses off; that is all I remember.
Plus, we'd stay late to see if we could catch the yellow spinner fall. Again, frozen nuts, so we started referring to the futile exercise as waiting for the 'scrotum fall'.
PS: Good luck with the twilight mousing.
https://tinyurl.com/y5ae44d7
A decade ago and before, I caught and kept. Of all the years fishing for smallies, largemouth, trout, roanoke bass, there was only one occasion where a mouse was found in the stomach of a fish, and that fish happened to be a Roanoke. 99 percent of all items in all largemouth, smallies, and Roanokes were crawfish. The trout tended to lean more towards hemlock needles (stockers), or chubs/stonerollers for wild browns and bows.
Vid is nothing more than some silly bro nonsense.
Blake Boyd specialized in night fishing on the SoHo some years back. Sadly I never went. Enormouse browns (every once in a while).
Seen all the usual vids
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Quote from: Onslow on July 22, 2019, 11:45:40 AMA decade ago and before, I caught and kept. Of all the years fishing for smallies, largemouth, trout, roanoke bass, there was only one occasion where a mouse was found in the stomach of a fish, and that fish happened to be a Roanoke. 99 percent of all items in all largemouth, smallies, and Roanokes were crawfish. The trout tended to lean more towards hemlock needles (stockers), or chubs/stonerollers for wild browns and bows.
Vid is nothing more than some silly bro nonsense.
My dad is a taxidermist. And he has mounted a astronomical about of LMB. And the craziest things he has told me he has found are a baby muskrat and a duckling. The amount of soft plastics found in stomachs is mind blowing. I kept a slot redfish once that had 4 Gulp Shrimp bodies in it stomach.
Quote from: Fishbug on July 22, 2019, 14:05:54 PMSeen all the usual vids
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Says the otter snagger... :laugh: V:;
Here is an Orvis podcast Mousing for Trout, with Joe Cermele from October 2017. The interview starts about 122 way through after the mail bag questions.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-orvis-fly-fishing-guide-podcast/id278930814?i=1000394062244
Quote from: Onslow on July 22, 2019, 11:45:40 AMA decade ago and before, I caught and kept. Of all the years fishing for smallies, largemouth, trout, roanoke bass, there was only one occasion where a mouse was found in the stomach of a fish, and that fish happened to be a Roanoke. 99 percent of all items in all largemouth, smallies, and Roanokes were crawfish. The trout tended to lean more towards hemlock needles (stockers), or chubs/stonerollers for wild browns and bows.
Vid is nothing more than some silly bro nonsense.
better vid for you Onslow...
https://youtu.be/G75Y4FCzJDw
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on July 22, 2019, 19:15:06 PMHere is an Orvis podcast Mousing for Trout, with Joe Cermele from October 2017. The interview starts about 122 way through after the mail bag questions.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-orvis-fly-fishing-guide-podcast/id278930814?i=1000394062244
I listened to that one about a month ago. It made me actually go home and tie a couple of big fuzzy flies to match the rodent hatch, but I haven't tried it yet.
https://youtu.be/soOiI8xkOkE
better video from the orginal tyer...
https://youtu.be/NjhUx-k2Chk
Yep, that's the pattern. I bet it would juke some smallmouths, too.
http://www.dpr.ncparks.gov/mammals/view.php?species_id=11
https://youtu.be/QMvjbz8hG9s
fOR the record, I doubt our trout eat mouse in any kind of volume that would make them key in on them at all.... but all kinds of shit swims on the surface and big browns eat at night according to at least 2 ad/articles I've read, sometimes it's just nice to be the only creep on the river
I will continue my practice in futility though and keep youse posted
I salute your noturnal weirdness.
I think after a brown gets up around 18"-20" or more, it;ll eat damn near anything that swims in or falls in the water that looks edible. I remember when I was a teenager, I caught a 15" brown that had an 8" rainbow in its gullet, with about 2" of the tail sticking out of its mouth. And it still hit a Mepps spinner. Any brown over about 14" has some wicked teeth, too.