Being born & bred in the Midwest and a pan fisherman in lakes , it just boogles my mind that any fish can live and survive in such skinny waters !! Your fishin' vlogs are GREAT !! Keep it up
The best part about Saturday!! Can’t wait to get back fishing more when it warms up! I caught my first fish on Tenkara just a couple of weeks ago and I’ve gotta say your videos are what got me into it! Keep it up!
One of the best things about your videos, is the arrow just prior to the strike. When I was just starting out with tenkara, this helped enormously with reading the water. This video also continues the debate about relevance of matched pattern vs presentation. If a fish thinks it's food, it will have at it.
Purchased the 9ft. Aventik and got it in the mail today. Love the feel of it. Can’t wait to start my tenkara journey. Thanks for all the testing and detailed review videos you do. Gave me the confidence to get into this more personal style of fishing.
I've really enjoyed your videos. While not a tenkara fisherman your videos have given me some ideas about traditional wet fly fishing using softhackles instead of kebari style wet flies.
Thanks for the fun to watch video Tristan! Surprised at how many fish were in there! The incoming storm has given me a nice chance to mark some local streams to go sample. Stoked on the Sierra's 🤙🏻
Wow, hard to believe there even trouts in those really shallow creeks. I would have never thought… Around my area, Southern Ontario, Canada, I think I would only hit creek chubs if I tried fishing in any creek or stream resembling the one you’re in… Good job. Thanks for showing that even in areas which don’t seem ideal to have trouts they nevertheless are there. I will pay more attention and try those sort of streams from now on.
The first one is a Black Gnat...great for the eastern slopes of the Rockies...The one on the right of the package looks very similar to a Royal Coachman which was my go-to in streams, creeks and brooks around Banff...
Crazy great location. Within a few seconds of the start of your fishing, I thought, "Wow, that looks like ________." After a few more seconds I realized that I knew exactly where that was! Cool! When I have fished it, the water was not nearly that low.
I just got a tenkara USA iwana rod for a steal...I was wondering if you could show a catch from a non body pov to really see how to move the rod when bringing in a fish...or just add a link to where I can see it
Among the many strengths of your channel is the fact that you do sample such a neat variety of streams. All of them interesting, I would add. But this one seemed quite different. A wide, semi-braided stream bed like that suggests that drainage may have had some fairly heavy grazing in its past, and is still slowly recovering to a pool/riffle situation. Just a hunch. But a great video … and by the way I have an old Cortland fly reel that still sees some use each year. Purchased over 45 years ago.
That’s the beauty of those small creeks…they are VERY cooperative:) I just find that they are much less durable, which is one of the several reasons I haven’t used a store-bought flies in many years…I gave about 30 dozen flies to friends that don’t tie.
Beautiful trout! I was trying to find barbless number 8 hooks yesterday and had no luck. I don’t know why it never occurred to me to just pinch the hooks. Good to know.
Great job! I always learn quite a bit from your videos. I’m gonna have to try a Tenkara rod when I go trout fishing this summer up northeast Iowa. I spend my summers there fishing and there are some nice trout streams. I plugged your channel in a vid I recently posted. I think all fishermen would enjoy trying out this type of fishing!
Lol glad to see the date on this video is August. As I'm residing where it's currently 17 degrees Fahrenheit. But in a couple days we've got 50 degrees so I'm plotting what river I'll spend that day on 😁
I've never fly fished in my life, except with fly-and-bubble once (successfully) when I was a kid waaaaaaay back in the early 1980s. Your videos (up all these little creeks) are making me curious enough to try, especially since Tenkara appears to be a very, very simple and low-cost way to fish.
Amazing that stream had so many fish. Nice colors on the Brookies. I don't know if you saw it but when you caught the first fish on the fourth fly (9:57 on the timer) there was what looked like a fish that came in from the bank on the right side between the rocks. Looked like it might have been interested in the one you had on! Great videos to watch as I wait for May opening in WI
In Connecticut, we have the brown trout, which was introduced into the streams in the 1800's, pushing out the native brook trout. Wish we could import some brookies from that stream since they are so abundant and pushing out the native cutthroat.
Your comment about the brookies pushing out the native cutties is kind of funny, in a sad sort of way. Here in the East, the native brookies are being exptirpated by over development and continued expansion of wild browns introduced a long time ago.
Around my area we have the Grand River (Southern Ontario, Canada) which is suppose to be top 10 for Brown Trout fishing in North America, but watching many TH-cam videos, you guys out fish me in supposed less than ideal areas, lol.
My town has two Walmarts, one of them has a large display case with several hundred wet and dry selections in multiple sizes. I would guess these are local tied flys selling for 92 cents each, very good quality.
Omg I live in north Georgia and 99% of all my flies and tying equipment is in storage and basically this was the first time I bought flies and yes I bought Walmart flies. I don’t believe the metal has been hardened so the hooks may straight out. Still looking at streams and using my tenkara flies but it will be interesting to see how yours work.
Fun fact; Brookies are not actually a trout. They are charr. Another fact, they are super invasive. Don't get me wrong, I love them being here because they are delicious. New too your channel. Great videos.
My Walmart has a good selection in a nice locked display case. I think they're done by Jackson hole or something like that,can't remember. They're actually good flies though. $1.10 each. They carry those Cortland flies too but I avoided them. I'm in Durango Colorado.
Since I have caught thousands of trout on my own hand tied flies and believe me they are not works of art, I have little doubt that Walmart flies would work at least as well. I have even caught hundreds of fish on flies tied with a tuft of hair from my cat.
I caught a 19" rainbow on my first attempt to tie a #12 Adams. It turned out to be about a size 8 body on a #12 hook. Nothing on the first cast... it rose for a look on the second cast... hooked on the third cast. Fly's tail was a tuft of fur from my pooch. Fun!
Along time ago, like 40 yrs, there was a Field and Stream article. There was a quote about not trimming up your knot. "Fish don't know nothin about knots." That's all from memory so it may be more of paraphrase. And, it might have been Sports Afield.
years ago I bought Chinese 'hand-tied' flies, they looked 'good' but I SWEAR they were laid up on non waterproof glue, 3 cast and they just flew apart.... LOL and yes they even had crappy dull hooks.... good day of fishing Mr. Tristan,those are pretty fish..
I've bought some super cheap flies off of AliExpress, and they were rough. Fell apart really easily. These Walmart ones were way better in that regard.
"I'm not going to pitch a trout on the bank to die". I'm with you there - that's just a waste, even if it ends up feeding the racoons, etc. In Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, there's a weird situation with the laws that seemingly force one to do just that. SNP is a brook trout fishery, but brown trout have made their way into the park; the rule is, brown trout cannot be returned to the stream. However, the park also follows the Virginia regulation on size, which I believe is 9 inches....so, if you catch an undersized brown trout, you can't release it, and you also can't legally keep it - on the bank it goes. What a waste - I know in such a situation, if I'm forced to NOT release fish, I'm not going to waste them, because I do eat fish. BTW - brookies are delicious.
Yeah, that's weird. Plus, on a creek like this, even if I removed all of the brook trout I caught, it wouldn't make a difference. Any space I made would just be taken up by the remaining brook trout and not the cutthroat. Even if every person who fishes this creek tossed out the brook trout, it still wouldn't get rid of all of them. It doesn't get fished enough for that to make a difference. The creek would need to be chemically treated and then re-planted with cutthroat for there to be any difference.
@@TenkaraAddict Yep, that's true - angler pressure doesn't make much of a dent on the population, unless it's just unlimited bait fishing with no one following the creel limits. I'm surprised you caught any cutts - from what I've seen out West, the brook trout so out-compete the cutts, they eventually drive them totally out..
In the states I routinely fish (Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Montana), essentially never. I've only caught chubs in South Dakota, and I've never caught darters or dace. I have caught northern pikeminnows while fishing for trout in Idaho and Oregon.
@@TenkaraAddict wow. That's so interesting. I'm in southern Ontario, Canada. Dry fly fishing I almost never have bycatch. But nymphing, I'll probably have 50/50 trout to bycatch. I know you're planning a trip up this way so at the very least you'll have a ton of new species haha. But the bycatch is quite worth it. Our rainbows and browns up here can get pretty big sucking down baitfish.
Back when I first started fly fishing (late 60s) Cortland was a quality manufacturer. I don’t know if Walmart ruined them or if they just didn’t keep up with the Scientific Anglers, etc. but being a Walmart label is not a mark of distinction.
In Sweden, Brook trout, is considered an invasive species. Millions are spent trying to get rid of them. Introduced here in the 1890's and again in the 1950's. Cool fish though and a survivor. Who decides what's invasive?
I’m like you and am a catch and release fisherman. I’ve been thinking (probably a silly thing to do) about squirting a little “trout chow” in their stomach before I release them as I’ve read that catching a fish hampers their ability to eat for a short period of time. Couldn’t hurt I guess.
Truth is, a hook, black string, and a black feather/hackle will just as likely catch as many fish as anything else! It's all preference, for the most part!
What are you doing man? All of those taste great with no head bones and all with flour and garlic fried in oil. I don't know how don't keep a few at least.
You said stream was stock back in the 30's didn't catch which species was the original cut's see that you were catching cut's at the end. Look like the goverment cut back on the water or it is us as a flood trib? Brookies were added back in the 30's. I alway say if the fish is hungry or in its area it will eat it... good job.
Being born & bred in the Midwest and a pan fisherman in lakes , it just boogles my mind that any fish can live and survive in such skinny waters !! Your fishin' vlogs are GREAT !! Keep it up
Thanks Michael, I appreciate that!
The best part about Saturday!! Can’t wait to get back fishing more when it warms up! I caught my first fish on Tenkara just a couple of weeks ago and I’ve gotta say your videos are what got me into it! Keep it up!
One of the best things about your videos, is the arrow just prior to the strike. When I was just starting out with tenkara, this helped enormously with reading the water. This video also continues the debate about relevance of matched pattern vs presentation. If a fish thinks it's food, it will have at it.
Purchased the 9ft. Aventik and got it in the mail today. Love the feel of it. Can’t wait to start my tenkara journey. Thanks for all the testing and detailed review videos you do. Gave me the confidence to get into this more personal style of fishing.
I've really enjoyed your videos. While not a tenkara fisherman your videos have given me some ideas about traditional wet fly fishing using softhackles instead of kebari style wet flies.
Thanks for the fun to watch video Tristan! Surprised at how many fish were in there! The incoming storm has given me a nice chance to mark some local streams to go sample. Stoked on the Sierra's 🤙🏻
I can’t wait for Autumn here in Australia so it starts cooling down just enough for the trout to be more active and aggressive
Wow, hard to believe there even trouts in those really shallow creeks. I would have never thought… Around my area, Southern Ontario, Canada, I think I would only hit creek chubs if I tried fishing in any creek or stream resembling the one you’re in… Good job. Thanks for showing that even in areas which don’t seem ideal to have trouts they nevertheless are there. I will pay more attention and try those sort of streams from now on.
You do such a good job with these videos and many of them for the potato budget folks too, like me....thanks!
The first one is a Black Gnat...great for the eastern slopes of the Rockies...The one on the right of the package looks very similar to a Royal Coachman which was my go-to in streams, creeks and brooks around Banff...
Crazy great location. Within a few seconds of the start of your fishing, I thought, "Wow, that looks like ________." After a few more seconds I realized that I knew exactly where that was! Cool! When I have fished it, the water was not nearly that low.
I just got a tenkara USA iwana rod for a steal...I was wondering if you could show a catch from a non body pov to really see how to move the rod when bringing in a fish...or just add a link to where I can see it
Among the many strengths of your channel is the fact that you do sample such a neat variety of streams. All of them interesting, I would add. But this one seemed quite different. A wide, semi-braided stream bed like that suggests that drainage may have had some fairly heavy grazing in its past, and is still slowly recovering to a pool/riffle situation. Just a hunch. But a great video … and by the way I have an old Cortland fly reel that still sees some use each year. Purchased over 45 years ago.
Another awesome video well done some really nice
great video . I too use alot of the walmart Cortland flies. Keep up the great videos. they are a great way to start my Saturday with coffee.
Will do. Thanks Stephen!
What creek is this? I'm in Western Montana and I've been wanting to check out some Idaho creeks
You should come to Michigan. We have 36k miles of streams and rivers many small trout streams. I've fished dozens.
That’s the beauty of those small creeks…they are VERY cooperative:) I just find that they are much less durable, which is one of the several reasons I haven’t used a store-bought flies in many years…I gave about 30 dozen flies to friends that don’t tie.
Beautiful trout! I was trying to find barbless number 8 hooks yesterday and had no luck. I don’t know why it never occurred to me to just pinch the hooks. Good to know.
Great job! I always learn quite a bit from your videos. I’m gonna have to try a Tenkara rod when I go trout fishing this summer up northeast Iowa. I spend my summers there fishing and there are some nice trout streams. I plugged your channel in a vid I recently posted. I think all fishermen would enjoy trying out this type of fishing!
Lol glad to see the date on this video is August. As I'm residing where it's currently 17 degrees Fahrenheit. But in a couple days we've got 50 degrees so I'm plotting what river I'll spend that day on 😁
Yeah, it's 13 degrees F here 😁
Nice little stream!
Love the colors on those brookies!
Enjoyed as always. Is Kind of crazy that Cortland Line has the cheap fairplay series or $500 euro rods with $20 tippet
I've never fly fished in my life, except with fly-and-bubble once (successfully) when I was a kid waaaaaaay back in the early 1980s.
Your videos (up all these little creeks) are making me curious enough to try, especially since Tenkara appears to be a very, very simple and low-cost way to fish.
"Low cost" is the pitch I made to my wife four tenkara rods ago.
Amazing that stream had so many fish. Nice colors on the Brookies. I don't know if you saw it but when you caught the first fish on the fourth fly (9:57 on the timer) there was what looked like a fish that came in from the bank on the right side between the rocks. Looked like it might have been interested in the one you had on! Great videos to watch as I wait for May opening in WI
In Connecticut, we have the brown trout, which was introduced into the streams in the 1800's, pushing out the native brook trout. Wish we could import some brookies from that stream since they are so abundant and pushing out the native cutthroat.
I'll send you a box full of them the next time I fish this stream 😄
Your comment about the brookies pushing out the native cutties is kind of funny, in a sad sort of way. Here in the East, the native brookies are being exptirpated by over development and continued expansion of wild browns introduced a long time ago.
Around my area we have the Grand River (Southern Ontario, Canada) which is suppose to be top 10 for Brown Trout fishing in North America, but watching many TH-cam videos, you guys out fish me in supposed less than ideal areas, lol.
Those crazy little brookies will attack anything
Awesome job love the arrows you use…..any suggestions on a rod for a first timer?
This might be useful: tenkaraaddict.com/choosing-tenkara-rod/
My town has two Walmarts, one of them has a large display case with several hundred wet and dry selections in multiple sizes. I would guess these are local tied flys selling for 92 cents each, very good quality.
We have something similar in our local Walmart. I should do a video where I pick flies from there and go fish with them. Thanks Joel!
Since this creek is wide open, would a longer rod, offering a stealthier approach make sense?
I catch Alot of little pan fish with them because I like to use them for bait
Do u ever catch and consume? my favorite meal is fried trout with wild mushrooms and bacon bits and potatoes
Nope
@@TenkaraAddict im all for catch and release but a shore lunch is good too
Omg I live in north Georgia and 99% of all my flies and tying equipment is in storage and basically this was the first time I bought flies and yes I bought Walmart flies. I don’t believe the metal has been hardened so the hooks may straight out. Still looking at streams and using my tenkara flies but it will be interesting to see how yours work.
Nice accessible stream👍👍👍👍👍
Fun fact; Brookies are not actually a trout. They are charr. Another fact, they are super invasive. Don't get me wrong, I love them being here because they are delicious. New too your channel. Great videos.
it should work ok. as long as they sit nicely in the water. they have nice wings and ok hackles.
My Walmart has a good selection in a nice locked display case. I think they're done by Jackson hole or something like that,can't remember. They're actually good flies though. $1.10 each. They carry those Cortland flies too but I avoided them. I'm in Durango Colorado.
Since I have caught thousands of trout on my own hand tied flies and believe me they are not works of art, I have little doubt that Walmart flies would work at least as well. I have even caught hundreds of fish on flies tied with a tuft of hair from my cat.
I caught a 19" rainbow on my first attempt to tie a #12 Adams. It turned out to be about a size 8 body on a #12 hook. Nothing on the first cast... it rose for a look on the second cast... hooked on the third cast. Fly's tail was a tuft of fur from my pooch. Fun!
Along time ago, like 40 yrs, there was a Field and Stream article. There was a quote about not trimming up your knot. "Fish don't know nothin about knots."
That's all from memory so it may be more of paraphrase. And, it might have been Sports Afield.
Tenkara Addict: I have many rods.
Me: I just cobbled two broken Ugly Sticks together to make one rod.
that is a lot of fish! As far as eating the brook trout, to small 'and no need to kill them, live and let live thank you stay safe
years ago I bought Chinese 'hand-tied' flies, they looked 'good' but I SWEAR they were laid up on non waterproof glue, 3 cast and they just flew apart.... LOL and yes they even had crappy dull hooks.... good day of fishing Mr. Tristan,those are pretty fish..
anorexic crackhead cutthroat..... LOL... how is Bowser and Miss Cassie doing ??
I've bought some super cheap flies off of AliExpress, and they were rough. Fell apart really easily. These Walmart ones were way better in that regard.
41 ...thats a mighty fine day on the water!
The fish were plentiful and willing!
"I'm not going to pitch a trout on the bank to die".
I'm with you there - that's just a waste, even if it ends up feeding the racoons, etc. In Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, there's a weird situation with the laws that seemingly force one to do just that. SNP is a brook trout fishery, but brown trout have made their way into the park; the rule is, brown trout cannot be returned to the stream. However, the park also follows the Virginia regulation on size, which I believe is 9 inches....so, if you catch an undersized brown trout, you can't release it, and you also can't legally keep it - on the bank it goes. What a waste - I know in such a situation, if I'm forced to NOT release fish, I'm not going to waste them, because I do eat fish. BTW - brookies are delicious.
Yeah, that's weird. Plus, on a creek like this, even if I removed all of the brook trout I caught, it wouldn't make a difference. Any space I made would just be taken up by the remaining brook trout and not the cutthroat. Even if every person who fishes this creek tossed out the brook trout, it still wouldn't get rid of all of them. It doesn't get fished enough for that to make a difference. The creek would need to be chemically treated and then re-planted with cutthroat for there to be any difference.
@@TenkaraAddict Yep, that's true - angler pressure doesn't make much of a dent on the population, unless it's just unlimited bait fishing with no one following the creel limits. I'm surprised you caught any cutts - from what I've seen out West, the brook trout so out-compete the cutts, they eventually drive them totally out..
I've never been in the situation where I've caught too many fish to know what to say!
I'm just curious how often you're getting bycatch. Chubs, darters, dace etc.
In the states I routinely fish (Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Montana), essentially never. I've only caught chubs in South Dakota, and I've never caught darters or dace. I have caught northern pikeminnows while fishing for trout in Idaho and Oregon.
@@TenkaraAddict wow. That's so interesting. I'm in southern Ontario, Canada. Dry fly fishing I almost never have bycatch. But nymphing, I'll probably have 50/50 trout to bycatch. I know you're planning a trip up this way so at the very least you'll have a ton of new species haha. But the bycatch is quite worth it. Our rainbows and browns up here can get pretty big sucking down baitfish.
Back when I first started fly fishing (late 60s) Cortland was a quality manufacturer. I don’t know if Walmart ruined them or if they just didn’t keep up with the Scientific Anglers, etc. but being a Walmart label is not a mark of distinction.
In Sweden, Brook trout, is considered an invasive species. Millions are spent trying to get rid of them. Introduced here in the 1890's and again in the 1950's. Cool fish though and a survivor. Who decides what's invasive?
If it's not native, it's invasive. Thanks for watching, Björn.
I’m like you and am a catch and release fisherman. I’ve been thinking (probably a silly thing to do) about squirting a little “trout chow” in their stomach before I release them as I’ve read that catching a fish hampers their ability to eat for a short period of time. Couldn’t hurt I guess.
I wish I could find those secret streams here in utah.
Great video fella!
Thanks!
Truth is, a hook, black string, and a black feather/hackle will just as likely catch as many fish as anything else! It's all preference, for the most part!
Great video. Loved it
These videos make me want to get in a SUV and go RVing.
Do it!
What are you doing man? All of those taste great with no head bones and all with flour and garlic fried in oil. I don't know how don't keep a few at least.
nice video
Thank You for sharing
Thanks for watching 👍
If you will whip it three or four times you will throw all the water off it and it will become a dry fly again
BTW. We have introduced rainbows as well, but the don't reproduce, so they're no problem.
Interesting. Introduced rainbows can interbreed with the native cutthroat in our streams, which is a problem. Thanks Björn.
You ended on an odd number🤯
fun!
Take the brook trout and smoke them.All sizes!
Your telling me you don't eat them?
The Walmart slam completed.
Nailed it!
Strange how brookies outcompete cutts out west and rainbows outcompete brookies in the east.
Yeah, that is odd. Thanks for watching, John.
Yet hatcheries still stock them.
Cruella de Vil fly
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Thanks for watching!
@@TenkaraAddict you're wc sir 🙏
You said stream was stock back in the 30's didn't catch which species was the original cut's see that you were catching cut's at the end. Look like the goverment cut back on the water or it is us as a flood trib? Brookies were added back in the 30's. I alway say if the fish is hungry or in its area it will eat it... good job.
I love my cortland 444 lines , but all their Walmart equipment is junky.