TROUT TOWNS EP. 1 - Jim Thorpe, PA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Nestled in the rugged Poconos Mountain in Northeastern Pennsylvania, Jim Thorpe is an outdoor recreation mecca. For trout fishing enthusiasts, there is the mighty Lehigh River and its many tributaries in and around the Lehigh Gorge. If you enjoy local history, Jim Thorpe (formerly Mauch Chunk) was a booming coal, timber, and railroad hub before transitioning to its tourist economy of today. With immaculately well preserved historic architecture, and various shops and restaurants, there’s nothing better than strolling through the downtown historic core after a full day of fly fishing. Please join me for the first episode of Trout Towns in Jim Thorpe, Pennsyvlania.
Music
Aaron Kenny - Gaiety in the Golden Age
Silent Partner - Headache
Ours Samplus - Palindrome
Kevin MacLeod - Hall of the Mountain King
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Track Tribe - Busy City
Syn Cole - Feel Good
Zachariah Hickman - Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
Retrovision - Puzzle
If you keep this up, I really think your channel could explode. I’m rooting for you man!
Thank man, appreciate it!
After 5 months of waiting, my spring fishing time has officially begun by this video. Welcome back!
You've really stepped up your game in every sense of the word. Congrats on the quality fishing and excellent videos, and thank you for sharing.
Thank you sir! There's always room for growth and learning with fishing and all walks of life. Hoping to continue the trend, appreciate the comment!
The fishing footage was great. I really like how you added cultural information about the town and the area. Sets your content apart from a lot of the YT fishing videos. Amazingly beautiful town and environs. Good work. I think you have a good idea here. Lots of trout towns, villages, and just places to feature in PA.
You are absolutely right! Living in PA, we take for granted all of the amazing historic towns and awesome fishing opportunities nearby. I hope to keep making these episodes all over the country (god willing) moving forward. Thanks for the comment and I hope you like what's to come.
About time you posted, always enjoy watching these videos
Great project.. I loved that second stream!!
Nice video thanks for sharing
Please remember that the trout in this river is stocked by the Lehigh River Stocking Association and not the state. The state stocks from Francis E Walter dam down to sand spring run. We need more members to keep this River the great fishery that it is. Please consider joining. I have been a proud member for 30 years.
The state stocks from Glen Onoko to Jim Thorpe. Look it up
@@troutmiester7441 LRA stocks way more fish than the state. I have seen it in person.
Doesn't the state stock the top 5 miles, 5 mile high club stocks 903 bridge to bear creek and LRSA stocks somewhere around Glen Okno to Northhampton. The wild fish population has been positively impacted by the stocking. Now that the fish are there, how about using the money and effort to make sure the feeders are passable for fish spawning and continued water quality improvement? Hatches continue to improve and I feel it's a direct result of the ACOE working better to keep water in the river. It's currently a good fishery but could be a great fishery. It's not as reliant on cold water releases as the Delaware system is. Lehigh gains cold water as it goes. Just can't let it dry up in the summer
Nice, I’d recommend a good mic for these overdubs. $100-300 can get you a lot of mic. A gimbal too 😉Looking forward to pt2
I havnt seen this many rainbows since pride month
Zing!!!!
Lol
Lord ive missed your vids man, great to see you uploading again keep up the content
Very nice! Great day of fishing too. Those rainbows were fighting something serious
Jim Thorpe has always been a nice quiet little town, I guess you can say. I lived up there off and on for years. Very little to do in Jim Thorpe but it's still a nice area. I'm hoping to get up there sometime in the fall to do some crappie fishing at the Munch Chunk lake. Great video
One of the best small towns in PA along with Wellsboro, Lititz, Bellefonte and other
@@TravelingTroutCo
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Great Job . Love your videos . Great tour. Plenty of space .
Dude finally let’s go been waiting for a new upload for months !
Awesome! I’m about 20 minutes away in schuylkill county.
the legend returns
I'm in Carbon County about 5 miles from Jim Thorpe. I'm just getting started fly fishing for PA trout. Hard to believe that I have put this off for so long but I work in NJ and have little time until now. A word of caution to those wading in the Lehigh there are a lot of deep drop offs and slippery rocks.
Great video mate!
Good stuff man! I really enjoy the format. If I could make a suggestion. Before you start fishing explain your setup and technique , Rod length, Weight, leader size, indicator or not and a close up and description of your flies. Also when you’re about to cast describe what you’re seeing on the water that is making you want to cast there. I’m routing for you. Your videos and skills have improved much since your early videos. I love how you always mention that your hands are sopping wet because you know you will get attacked. Lol. Keep up the good work
Thanks man, appreciate the feedback. I'll definitely try to do some more explanation of my gear, fly selection, and why I'm doing what I'm doing. Thanks!
Great video . Can't wait to see where you go next !
Love it, time to travel the country!
Cool video 👍 I like how you added the history and architecture parts.
Nice work! I like the direction you are taking this channel. Keep it up!
Glad to see you’re back!
Wow these videos got much better
glad to see ur back 💪🏼
Thank you for not killing the fish God bless you stay safe
Heck yea man this is what we been waiting on this is awesome so cool its like a mix between tripple d and anthony bourdain no reservations mixed with river monsters
Awesome theme for the "trout towns". May I recommend State College, Spruce Creek, Ohiopyle, and Driftwood.
State College and Ohiopyle are definitely on my existing list!
Nice video. Good idea. Definitely a niche here that hasn't been capitalized on! Tightlines
Thanks! I genuinely appreciate the comment. I usually don't get alot of 'love' from the other PA fly fishing channels (probably due to my earlier videos which even I cringe at). I honestly just love American history and classic architecture and found myself enjoying that aspect of traveling to trout fish just as much as the actual fishing so figured I'd share that with everyone. You've got some great videos as well and we definitely fish many of the same waters. Have a great spring fishing season (hopefully this cool weather and rain continue into June)!
This is trout country at its best...note the coloring on the native trout...how different than the typical stocked trout. This is what Jim Leisenring referred to as Pennsylvania chalk water...the best fishing in PA.
Nice work!
This is epic
You should check out trout creek in slatington pa, springside sportsman’s club stocks some big rainbows
hello and thank you for this great video! Im goin to be there in early June. Do you think there is still some good trout action that time of year?
been waitin on the comeback 🤞🏻
Hope to keep them coming man, appreciate it!
Seems your keeping the fish above the water level while in the net. Please make sure the fish are adequately submerged. Thank you. Fished the Lehigh a number of times. Great fun.
Cool video I like the South Park vibes
Rob Schneider is ... a stapler
Throw back! Looking forward to seeing more of these, how long do these episodes take to produce?
@@downsoutdoors5150 Old videos took a day or so to film and then an hour or two to edit. These are multiple days to film and probably 15+ hours of editing (drone, music, narration, etc). Volume of videos will be low for a while until I get the hang of it. Thanks for picking up on the SP vibes though that's 100% the voice I was going for lol...
@@TravelingTroutCo Nice it's definetely worth it because I can already see sponsors now breaching your door "we got him boys, the fishfluencer we always needed, but don't deserve."
Awesome video!! When are you gonna do that Lackawaxen river !??
The Lackawaxen is excellent fishing! I think it’s dubbed “The number one hold over trout river in PA”. You need to pay attention to the rising waters when they open the flood gates at Lake Wallenpaupack. Tight lines!
Welcome back
Hey buddy! I enjoyed watching your video, I was recently at Jim Thorpe, it's a beautiful place. I would like to go fishing at the second place you went, (small creek 17:40) could you share the exact location on maps and the description of the access. thank you so much.
I think he withholds that information on purpose. If I'm honest, I agree with that policy. TH-cam is great, but once something is featured on YT it tends to really get a lot of pressure quickly. I found an awesome book on PA streams by Tom Gilmore with GPS directions for access called, "Flyfisher's Guide to Pennsylvania." My and my fishing buddy call it The Good Book. 😆
Did you film the town portions on a phone? Not much stabilization, got dizzy watching it. Need GoPro.
I used a GoPro 11 with a Volta stick but for whatever reason it was still REALLY shaky. I need to learn how to stabilize in adobe during editing process. Hopefully it'll keep getting better!
Wolly Buggers tend to work better if you strip them a bit.
You should try Big Hunting Creek down in MD! Beautiful little wild brownies. It is fly fishing only there tho
I've had my eye on Catoctin for a while now, will definitely give it a try. Thanks!
Jim Thorpe is our next trip 😄
You both are going to love it! If you bring Ken, hop on the rail trail. If you don't bring Ken, make sure Anth books a ticket on the Lehigh Gorge Railway.
where you go fishing at in jim thorpe
please fish the upper and lower Chattahoochee River in Georgia.
watch your video's, great job but when catch and releasing, it's best to leave the fish in the net in the water, wet your hand and remove hook and release, no harm to fish. thanx.
Why did you assume the rainbow was stocked? I've fished the Lehigh since 1992 and I can assure you that there a LOTS of native Rainbows in the river.
I catch them late in to the summer . Especially near bowmanstown
Just turn the net over to release them.
you should try euro nymphing
I've honestly heard that alot recently and am thinking about giving it a try. I'm honestly not even sure exactly what it is so I need to do some research and practice.
@@TravelingTroutCo it’s a cheat code - longer rod / thinner diameter of a line so you rarely even use ur fly line and then really shouldn’t even have any of your line on the water so there’s essentially no drag. Your basically fishing the bottom almost with a fly rod and a much tighter presentation. It will shorten the learning curve that comes with fly fishing and really force you to learn to read water and move fish out of areas you generally wouldn’t fish or where others will have a hard time getting too. George Daniels has a good vid on youtube on it he explains real well it’s a longer vid but that’s all you need to watch and you’ll get it it’s pretty easy not as difficult as typical fly fishing with a float line and stuff
Watch some fly fishing videos and learn to mend , you will catch more fish
Great video! But ! Never handle the fish if you can help it !
SUB!!!!
You have an instagram ?
No. My wife tells me I need to make one for the channel, but I haven't done so yet. We don't have any personal social media at all (no facebook or twitter or IG). If I get an IG up and running for this channel I'll shout it out in a future vid.
Wow! We really used to make impressive things in this country! 🥲
We sure did. And hopefully we will make impressive things again.