How to fish the Mouse Pattern?

Never done this before, I ordered the Mouse Pattern in a size 6 and 8, but
not sure how to fish it. Anyone have suggestions, techniques on fishing the
mouse pattern?
http://www.hillsdiscountflies.com/cg...tegory _Code=
thanks,
-tom

"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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Never done this before, I ordered the Mouse Pattern in a size 6 and 8, but
not sure how to fish it. Anyone have suggestions, techniques on fishing
the mouse pattern?
http://www.hillsdiscountflies.com/cg...tegory _Code=
thanks,
-tom



Sorry, correct link to the mouse pattern I purchased:
http://home.comcast.net/~tomnak/mouse_pattern.jpg
-tom

Tom Nakashima wrote:
"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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Never done this before, I ordered the Mouse Pattern in a size 6 and 8, but
not sure how to fish it. Anyone have suggestions, techniques on fishing
the mouse pattern?
http://www.hillsdiscountflies.com/cg...tegory _Code=
thanks,
-tom



Sorry, correct link to the mouse pattern I purchased:
http://home.comcast.net/~tomnak/mouse_pattern.jpg
-tom

I would use cat gut leaders.

Two kittens were watching a tennis match. One says"I didn't know you
were so interested in tennis". "It's family, Dad's in the racquet"

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Tom Nakashima wrote:
"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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Never done this before, I ordered the Mouse Pattern in a size 6 and 8,
but
not sure how to fish it. Anyone have suggestions, techniques on
fishing
the mouse pattern?
http://www.hillsdiscountflies.com/cg...tegory _Code=
thanks,
-tom



Sorry, correct link to the mouse pattern I purchased:
http://home.comcast.net/~tomnak/mouse_pattern.jpg
-tom

I would use cat gut leaders.

Two kittens were watching a tennis match. One says"I didn't know you
were so interested in tennis". "It's family, Dad's in the racquet"


Good one BJ,
a cat did bite off 20 ft of my line once when I was practicing my cast on
the lawn.
-tom

Tom Nakashima wrote:
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Never done this before, I ordered the Mouse Pattern in a size 6 and 8, but
not sure how to fish it. Anyone have suggestions, techniques on fishing
the mouse pattern?
http://www.hillsdiscountflies.com/cg...tegory _Code=
thanks,
-tom




Sorry, correct link to the mouse pattern I purchased:
http://home.comcast.net/~tomnak/mouse_pattern.jpg

That is so cute! :-)

I tied the same pattern without the eyes, ears, and whiskers, for Alaska
-- didn't have much luck with it. I think Willi caught a few with his
mouse, which looked a lot easier to tie.

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

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I tied the same pattern without the eyes, ears, and whiskers, for
Alaska -- didn't have much luck with it. I think Willi caught a few with
his mouse, which looked a lot easier to tie.


Alaska is where I'll be trying this mouse pattern on the Arolik in July.
Not sure whether to surface it, or sink it.
Throw it in and hope for the best?
-tom

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"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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Never done this before, I ordered the Mouse Pattern in a size 6 and
8, but not sure how to fish it. Anyone have suggestions, techniques
on fishing the mouse pattern?

I hear Wayne Knight prefers hanging them from tree limbs.
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Tim
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Tim J. wrote:


I hear Wayne Knight prefers hanging them from tree limbs.


Ya heard wrong

Tom Nakashima wrote:
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m...

I tied the same pattern without the eyes, ears, and whiskers, for
Alaska -- didn't have much luck with it. I think Willi caught a few with
his mouse, which looked a lot easier to tie.



Alaska is where I'll be trying this mouse pattern on the Arolik in July.
Not sure whether to surface it, or sink it.
Throw it in and hope for the best?
-tom

Tom,

Make it do what mice do in the water. They swim. Toss it close to the
opposite bank(preferably a cutbank with lots of vegetation), mend a
couple times and let it drift along the bank. Let it swing, and "swim
it" back upstream. I read pauses help. I've seen video of big char
taking a mouse pattern as it sits, waking in current. Having only caught
bass on a mouse, I cannot comment on the effectiveness of this method. ;-)

brians

After a little research, I learned how to fish the Mouse Pattern:

Good casting skill is needed to present a mouse 60 feet away from a boat.
The presentation of the mouse must be done so as to resemble one that came
to the water's edge and accidentally fell in. The cast is made so that the
mouse lands on or bounces off the rocks. When the mouse lands on a rock, a
small twitch will cause it to fall in.

Getting the mouse there isn't enough. Brown trout like mice but rise for
them slowly. The trout knows a mouse in the water is in trouble and doesn't
have to hurry to eat it. He'll swim from under a rock ledge or shadowed
shoreline and slowly rise to feed. While the trout is deciding whether or
not to eat the mouse, the imitation must act like it is swimming and
struggling to get back to safety. Even then, mice swim slowly. So line
stripping (pulling line in for non fly-fishers) is done only an inch or two
at a time with a slight twitch. Swim the mouse too fast and the trout will
realize something's wrong and won't take it.

Trout first pull a mouse down by the tail to drown it. That means the hook
shouldn't be set on the first tug, to do so will pull the mouse from the
fish's mouth. Wait another moment or so, allowing the trout to take the
entire mouse in its mouth before striking. But don't wait too long! The
trout will realize the mouse is a fake and spit it out. There's a split
second when the trout bites the mouse by the tail and another split second
when the trout gets the whole mouse in its mouth. That's when the hook must
be set. Remember, the trout's mouth is hard and bony, so the hook must be
sharp and set crisply.

-tom