Mousing for Trout, with Joe Cermele

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

This week’s guest is Joe Cermele, fishing editor of Field & Stream magazine and the one-man-band behind the terrific web series “Hook Shots” (if you have not seen his videos they are always fun and offbeat). Joe is wild about fishing big flies for big fish—regardless of species. Our interview is about mousing for trout, a sorta-night-fishing, sorta-streamer-fishing technique that has become popular in recent years. But it’s not about fishing mouse flies for wilderness fish in Alaska or Kamchatka, it’s about fishing them in local, heavily fished rivers. Mousing is a great way to avoid the crowds and catch one of those big trout you seldom see during the day. As usual in The Fly Box we have a wide variety of topics: missing strikes on topwater bass flies, the difference between a desiccant and a flotant (again!), finding tailing carp, fishing streamers and high-stick nymphing in spring creeks, fishing bamboo rods for larger trout, tying with peacock eyes, questions on rod models, when to buy multiple reels as opposed to one reel and an extra spool, trout that disappear in early spring, correct depth for setting your indicator (there isn’t one), deciding which fly-tying tools to put most of your budget into—and finally what is that white rod Pete Kutzer uses for his casting videos?

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0:00.0	Hi this is Reed Bryant host of the Orvis Hunting and Shooting Podcast.
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0:15.6	Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer,
0:20.6	bringing you tips, tricks and T. T. T.
0:25.0	You get the most of your time on the water.
0:26.0	Here's your host, acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing
0:30.0	enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer. Hi and welcome to the fly fishing
0:33.4	and I'm going to the October 25th, 2017.
0:43.6	And before I start the podcast,
0:47.2	the podcast is going to be both the flybox,
0:50.0	as usual, and an interview with Joe Sermaelie of Field Street magazine on mousing for
0:56.4	trout, which is a topic that's become quite popular, a technique that's become quite popular these days for people who are not afraid of the dark. But
1:07.5	before we start that I want to do a little public service announcement.
1:13.2	For those of you who are not aware,
1:16.7	there's a proposed copper mine
1:21.8	on the headwaters of the Smith River in Montana. The Smith River is a
1:27.3	legendary river that's very very popular with both traveling anglers and resident anglers and it's a
1:35.3	very special place for a lot of families in Montana and there are a series of
1:40.6	public hearings on this proposed mine, which is an area of concern for the Smith River,
1:49.2	is a topic of concern for people that love the Smith River.
1:52.6	And I just wanted to let you know that if you live in Montana
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