Fly fishing for trout with a mouse fly is a really exciting way to revisit your favorite water. It also may very well yield some of the biggest fish… fish you didn’t even know swam in your well-known holes.

Using mice is also a pretty straightforward and easy way to fish. Cast, retrieve, repeat. Hear a big splash, wait, set the hook.

Still, there are a few things worth knowing before you give mousing a shot this season. I talk through three simple things that will help orient or reorient you for chasing big, hungry, carnivorous trout.

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