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This week\\u2019s guest is Joe Cermele, fishing editor of Field & Stream magazine and the one-man-band behind the terrific web series \\u201cHook Shots\\u201d (if you have not seen his videos they are always fun and offbeat). Joe is wild about fishing big flies for big fish\\u2014regardless 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\\u2019s not about fishing mouse flies for wilderness fish in Alaska or Kamchatka, it\\u2019s 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. As usual in The Fly Box we have a wide variety of topics: missing strikes on topwater bass flies, the difference between a desiccant and a flotant (again!), finding tailing carp, fishing streamers and high-stick nymphing in spring creeks, fishing bamboo rods for larger trout, tying with peacock eyes, 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\\u2019t one), deciding which fly-tying tools to put most of your budget into\\u2014and finally what is that white rod Pete Kutzer uses for his casting videos?