This week’s guest is Joe Cermele, fishing editor of

Field & Stream

magazine and the one-man-band behind the terrific web series “

Hook Shots

.” (If you have not seen his videos, they are always fun and offbeat.) Joe is wild about fishing big flies for big fish—regardless of species. Our interview is about mousing for trout, a sorta-night-fishing, sorta-streamer-fishing technique that has become popular in recent years. But it’s not about fishing mouse flies for wilderness fish in Alaska or Kamchatka; it’s about fishing them in local, heavily fished rivers. Mousing is a great way to avoid the crowds and catch one of those big trout you seldom see during the day. Check out the video below, which also features

Delaware River guide

and former

Trout Bum of the Week

Joe Demalderis.

As usual, in The Fly Box we have a wide variety of topics: missing strikes on topwater bass flies, the difference between desiccant and flotant (again!), finding tailing carp, fishing streamers and high-stick nymphing in spring creeks, fishing bamboo rods for larger trout, tying with peacock eyes. There are also questions on rod models, when to buy multiple reels as opposed to one reel and an extra spool, trout that disappear in early spring, correct depth for setting your indicator (there isn’t one), deciding which fly-tying tools to put most of your budget into—and finally what is that white rod Pete Kutzer uses for his casting videos?

If you don’t see the “Play” button above, click here to listen.