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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Mammal Eating Trout
Have you ever dreamed of hitting the mouse hatch in New Zealand? Or perhaps skating lemming patterns across the water in Labrador? Well, some new research has shown that you don't need to travel quite so far. Apparently the trout in Idaho's Silver Creek are carnivorous, or at least become so when the vole population explodes during the high end of the population cycle. I don't know about everyone else, but fishing mouse patterns in the dark to monster trout sure sounds like a lot of fun...
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Bass will eat mouse flies too. Years ago I was fishing a small pond by my house and tossed a mouse fly under a over hanging tree. A largemouth jumped out of the water and came down head first right on the mouse. I was stunned and I think that was the only reason I caught the fish. I think if I had been ready I probably would have moved the fly before the bass actually ate it. I have been trying to relive that moment for quite awhile. I haven't had it happen since.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like something worth recreating. Hopefully you will find some fish this year willing to hit a mouse pattern!
DeleteHi David!
ReplyDeleteReally interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Kind regards,
Mats Olsson
Mats, glad you found it interesting! Too bad there aren't more places you can regularly fish mouse patterns...
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ReplyDeleteIf a big brown hits a frog pattern like the largemouth, then you are in for a fight. I can’t imagine what it would be like to land a big brown on a frog or any other pattern. I am still in search of my 16” trout, hopefully one day I will connect. By the way I am getting ready for the flies. The generation on the tailrace is getting less. Check out this link for a great buy on waders at Cabelas--
David
If a big brown hits a frog pattern like the largemouth, then you are in for a fight. I can’t imagine what it would be like to land a big brown on a frog or any other pattern. I am still in search of my 16” trout, hopefully one day I will connect. By the way I am getting ready for the flies. The generation on the tailrace is getting less. Check out this link for a great buy on waders at Cabelas--
http://www.cabelas.com/catalog/search_catalog_command.cmd?fromProductSearch=true&item1=Ibs830203
Bill, the flies should be there soon. Let me know if they don't show up in the next few days...
DeleteThanks for the heads up on the waders deal!!!
Death to voles...I'm not sad to hear about that at all. And it does sound fun casting large mouse flies to meat eating trout.
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