Mouse Fishing in Kamchatka, Russia Ozernaya River

Too bad the situation is how it is in 2024 would love to go fishing there

Озёрных рек на Камчатке несколько. Есть возле реки Камчатка, есть возле устья Налычева.
Это какая Озерная?

Boom!

Hey joe, how does the bluegill stack up to the payload for mousing like this?

Yuck!

You caught some beautiful fish!! Mr. Bill Stinson and his wife of Washington State, (the author of a book on Steelhead drift fishing), every summer would guide a large number of people for "Mousing" on the upper You-Know-What river that has big Salmon. He used fly rod and fly line. I tied a mouse and sent him a sample of it. I had been warned that he could be sarcastic at times. That certainly was not my experience. He wrote a very nice and polite letter to me and offered me $16.00 per fly and told me that his minimum purchases would be 1000 flies at a time, in the 1980's. He did a floatation test on it and it floated over 3 hours, without treating it with any floatant. I politely declined his offer. The reason I was proud of it was because many women would scream when I would show them my mouse. Even a few men sort of jumped back, LOL. It truly looked like the real thing. If it wasn't such a pain to tie, I would have marketed it. One of these days I'm going to go where you went to and try my mouse.

Nice wee video👍🏻

Gotta be some amazing fishing in Russia! Alot of wild unmolested rivers! That's outside of the box!

I ❤ Russia! Never been and didnt know why, but now i do. GORGEOUS FISH! Beautiful guys, thanks for sharing.

Great river. How about salmon and dollies? should be on Kamschatka as well

Man this is some good stuff.

Can't argue with success but that looks like good water for swinging streamers. Top water a lot more exciting though! Love the name of that mouse pattern, epic!

Is this an effective method in the northwest or have the dams reduced us to catching 10 inch hatchery fish? I'm really trying to do that twitchy thing with a mouse pattern it looks amazing.

Great video and awesome fish! I was curious..... I see you "mousing" in the middle of the day. I feel like more folk lore, at least what I read and see here on the east coast, is about mousing at night. Do you think it was specific to Russia for your success, that stream, those fish, or do those tactics you think work country wide here in the states. Interested to get your take on this. Thanks for sharing!

Nice fish! Thanks for sharing. Tight lines!

Sweet, how long is your leader/ tippet? What would your setup be on an OPST commando line?