Night Fishing, and the Mouse Emerger Concept | The Troutbitten Podcast | Season 1, Episode 3

(From October 5, 2021) Night fishing is a mystery with no resolution. Every other aspect of fly fishing for trout has been written about, understood and expanded upon. Lifetimes of information are available at your fingertips - the lives of so many fishermen who’ve come before you. You can read the accounts of their discoveries, their failures, their new ideas and understandings.
But the night fishing game? It’s like a bare cupboard.
There are very, very few people who’ve spent much time on the water at night. And there are even fewer anglers who’ve written or shared good information about fishing for trout after dark.
Because there are so few practitioners of the night game, so few anglers willing (and able) to put in the hours and search for those answers, we find the same beliefs repeated time after time. The same advice. The same wives tales rerun again and again, because they sound like they make sense.
The truth is, night fishing is hard. Consistency is elusive - maybe it’s not even possible.
But after years of experiencing that kind of failure, I found an answer. I discovered a fly and a handful of tactics that turned the hook-up ratio around. And I started landing far more trout by fishing what I’ve come to think of as a mouse emerger.
In this podcast episode, my friends Josh and Trevor join me to discuss the mouse emerger concept.
What is it? And why does a mouse emerger fool more trout than other approaches? Why do trout attack flies but refuse them so often at night?
In this night fishing episode, we discuss the flies:
- The Bad Mother
- Lynch’s White Bellied Mouse
- The Pendragon
- The Black Rogue
- The Gypsy Queen
And we dig into the tactics for fishing a mouse emerger style:
- Locations
- Retrieves
- Angles
- Speed
- And the deadly Slow Slide
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Dom

[@martinhodell8465]

Rarely does a podcast episode open your eyes so dramatically to an entire new aspect to an activity. Well done! I've enjoyed starting night fishing since this pod first came out.

[@Troutbitten]

Cool comment. Thanks. Love hearing that.

[@truthseeker5890]

Nicely done, guys.
Great information. Great conversation.
Keep 'em comin'.

[@Troutbitten]

Cheers

[@mikeney5113]

Love the show Dom. Thanks for all u do.

[@Troutbitten]

Thanks, Mike.

[@jeremycampanella274]

Will the troutbitten team be publishing the pin dragon recipe? My adaption from the brief description in this episode has been productive, but I would love to get ahold of Josh And Trevor’s OG pattern. Keep it up fellas and thanks for everything!

[@Troutbitten]

Thanks for your kind words. Yes, we pan for a tying video for the Pendragon this summer. In the meantime, check out this article on Troutbitten about the Wiggle and Hand. There's a good photo of the Pendragon in this one. Cheers.
troutbitten.com/2021/09/11/night-fishing-for-trout-the-wiggle-and-hang/