Hunt's Mouse
Fly of the Month 11.25 - Mouse
Mouse fly patterns tends to be tied using spun deer hair or closed-cell foam as the primary floating material. By the time a slender, long tail, maybe legs, whiskers, eyes and ears are added, both approaches typically end up with challenging fly pattern recipes with substantial tying times. As a quick-and-easy adaptation of the Morrish Mouse, Chris Hunt’s foam mouse is one of the easiest mouse fly patterns to tie and it is simple to utilize where big trout seek mice for food.
One North Carolina stream is foremost, the lower Nantahala River. Due to the arrangement for daytime power generation and recreational rafting traffic, the lower section is uniquely legal to fly fish during the night. This allows anglers to have non-disrupted time on the river and it also provides for the opportunity to catch the larger trout that seek mice for food.
Mice? Big browns and rainbows of the lower Henry’s Fork are mouse-eaters. In Chilean Patagonia during the spring in the Southern Hemisphere, the trout fishing fly pattern recommended foremost is a mouse! Yes, in the glacial-chilled rivers and streams along spine of the Andes in southern Chile, the trout eat mice.
Hunt’s Mouse is a mouse fly pattern that can be tied quickly, uses few materials, durable and is highly dependably.
Mouse
Fly of the Month 11.25
Hunt’s Mouse
Hook: Gamakatsu SS15
Size: 1
Body: Black craft foam—at least one full sheet.
Legs: Grizzly saddle hackle (two feathers per fly)
Tail: Crosscut rabbit strips (brown, gray or black)
Eyes: Doll eyes, red
Hunt’s Mouse is an adaptation of the Morrish Mouse, a long-time favorite of anglers across the globe who chase big trout in places like New Zealand and southwest Alaska. The saddle hackle is the substitution for the deer hair that most patterns call for, simply because it’s easier to work with at the vise. This pattern will ride a bit lower in the water than the “original” Morrish Mouse fly pattern using deer hair for the leg and body fibers.
Tying Directions:
- Tom Adams, Alen Baker
Mouse fly patterns tends to be tied using spun deer hair or closed-cell foam as the primary floating material. By the time a slender, long tail, maybe legs, whiskers, eyes and ears are added, both approaches typically end up with challenging fly pattern recipes with substantial tying times. As a quick-and-easy adaptation of the Morrish Mouse, Chris Hunt’s foam mouse is one of the easiest mouse fly patterns to tie and it is simple to utilize where big trout seek mice for food.
One North Carolina stream is foremost, the lower Nantahala River. Due to the arrangement for daytime power generation and recreational rafting traffic, the lower section is uniquely legal to fly fish during the night. This allows anglers to have non-disrupted time on the river and it also provides for the opportunity to catch the larger trout that seek mice for food.
Mice? Big browns and rainbows of the lower Henry’s Fork are mouse-eaters. In Chilean Patagonia during the spring in the Southern Hemisphere, the trout fishing fly pattern recommended foremost is a mouse! Yes, in the glacial-chilled rivers and streams along spine of the Andes in southern Chile, the trout eat mice.
Hunt’s Mouse is a mouse fly pattern that can be tied quickly, uses few materials, durable and is highly dependably.
Mouse
Fly of the Month 11.25
Hunt’s Mouse
Hook: Gamakatsu SS15
Size: 1
Body: Black craft foam—at least one full sheet.
Legs: Grizzly saddle hackle (two feathers per fly)
Tail: Crosscut rabbit strips (brown, gray or black)
Eyes: Doll eyes, red
Hunt’s Mouse is an adaptation of the Morrish Mouse, a long-time favorite of anglers across the globe who chase big trout in places like New Zealand and southwest Alaska. The saddle hackle is the substitution for the deer hair that most patterns call for, simply because it’s easier to work with at the vise. This pattern will ride a bit lower in the water than the “original” Morrish Mouse fly pattern using deer hair for the leg and body fibers.
Tying Directions:
- Tom Adams, Alen Baker