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Anybody ever have any luck with mouse patterns on any local rivers before? These sorta videos really get me excited to tie some of those bad boys, but haven't had any luck the few times I have tried them.

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Well Monger there is something to be said about having a grown out stocker waving at you from 4 ft in the air and leaving immediately after you feel and hear your backing knot go rat-a-tat-tat through your guides.

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Love mousin! Sweet vids!

 

Certainly haven't been too successful at it for numbers of fish, but when it works, it is awesome...

 

I really like this guy's two-tone mouse, but even just using a single tone of natural belly hair it looks good - I have found clipping off the main hook and using a stinger instead on the tail seems to work when a fish tries to pull a mouse under instead of a full-on strike:

 

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Good thread, I am really tossing the around the idea of using only two flies when brown hunting this season, one of which is the mouse.

The other is a triple articulated sex dungeon, right?

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Love mousin! Sweet vids!

 

Certainly haven't been too successful at it for numbers of fish, but when it works, it is awesome...

 

I really like this guy's two-tone mouse, but even just using a single tone of natural belly hair it looks good - I have found clipping off the main hook and using a stinger instead on the tail seems to work when a fish tries to pull a mouse under instead of a full-on strike:

 

He's using a Morrish Mouse rough spun deer hair , bottom trimmed flat, then black foam back pulled down and tied off at head, leather tail. works like a damn around these parts!! not saying where just these parts..

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Tried tossing a mouse in some of my small stream big brown waters, put em down for hours.

 

I wonder if dead drifting it into where you want to fish then swinging/chugging would have worked?

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The other is a triple articulated sex dungeon, right?

No, Triple articulated dungeons fold back on themselves resulting in tangled flies as well as I don't think dungeons are good at illicting a strike, they bring the fish around but they don't commit. I only advocate the dungeon as an attractor.

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Long time ago my ex-wife was accusing me of not going fishing because I never bring any fish home lol. So i decided to bring her a brown out of the south fork of Prairie Creek. Cleaned it and found two mice in its stomach.

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No, Triple articulated dungeons fold back on themselves resulting in tangled flies as well as I don't think dungeons are good at illicting a strike, they bring the fish around but they don't commit. I only advocate the dungeon as an attractor.

 

Put beads in to the articulations before pulling the wire/line tight. Not a 100 percent fix, but definitely reduces the tangles. Is your experience species specific? I always fished big ones for bulls in the kootenays.

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Put beads in to the articulations before pulling the wire/line tight. Not a 100 percent fix, but definitely reduces the tangles. Is your experience species specific? I always fished big ones for bulls in the kootenays.

beads aren't even close to a fix. For this conversation I am only talking about browns, IMO fishing for bulls with a dungeon is a waste of tying time.

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beads aren't even close to a fix. For this conversation I am only talking about browns, IMO fishing for bulls with a dungeon is a waste of tying time.

oh okay, I guess it doesn't work. ha. :bow:

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