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I always carry a mouse imitation in my fly box for that one time when everything aligns and you can catch a big trout on a mouse. Don't let the rainbow trout fool you. It's been passed off as a ...

Maybe it's the bass fisherman in me that makes mousing so enticing. I love the experience of a trout smashing a large mouse pattern skittering across the top of the water. Setting the hook as this ...

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We have mouse patterns because trout eat mice. Years ago, before the Idaho Department of Fish and Game made it illegal to harvest native Yellowstone cutthroat trout on the South Fork of the Snake ...

In preparation for a sacred day in the lives of many Northern Michigan outdoors people — that being opening day of trout season on April 28 — I asked several local fly fishing fanatics what six flies ...

Don't let the rainbow trout fool you. It's been passed off as a gentleman's fish, a fragile creature, and needs to be handled with kid gloves. That is not the fish that I pursue. The trout I know have ...