I Hooked The BIGGEST BROWN TROUT of My Life! (Streamer Fishing)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- It’s a well known fact that big streamers are the most effective way to target the biggest brown trout in a given body of water. Today I experienced that firsthand as I fished with big streamers for the first time and had some incredible results
Let it be known, i love how you're real on here and dont censor yourself or act for youtube. I love watching this.
Hey, that was a fun video to watch. I might suggest you slow your approach and retrieve a bit to be a little more "stealthy". Slowing down will help keep you from slapping the water and could give the fish an opportunity to grab your extended fly. you may want to try working your streamers up from the bottom of a run (will also help you to slow it down) instead of ripping it quickly downstream with the current. Nice looking flies btw.
Tight lines buddy
@@jameshoffer4852 i like fishing them from upstream and casting downstream and retrieving them against the current, problem is in these small creeks sometimes I can’t get upstream of a spot without spooking it. I definitely need to slow down the retrieve though, that’s what a lot of people are saying
Awesome vid man!! Also been hooked on streamers for a while. Caught my biggest brown on them! Super addicting! One thing that really helped me is having more than one retrieve, and varying those retrieve speeds! Kelly Galloup has a ton of vids out now and even started his own podcast, and he’s just an immense wealth of knowledge. Learned a lot from him. Good luck!
side pressure,Bro....keep at it!
Great video! Fun to watch as you learn streamer fishing. You’ve got some great tips in the comments, especially the one about fishing for steelhead in Erie. I am 5 hours from there as well, and it is worth the drive. You will learn how to handle hard-fighting fish up there. Thanks for the vid!
I caught a 28 inch brown at cow shoals on the little red in arkansas on a 5 wt it was a circus it was on a royal wolf
Fish don't miss a meal - unless they want to :)! Think of it like this: If a BigMac hit you the face would you miss it? Big predators don't miss a meal unless they see something or they don't like something at the last mila-second. They just don't miss ... Great vid... Awesome footage!
Trust me… they do miss
Did you hear that from Kelly Galloup 😂
My buddy and i started a channel this year and did one our first videos here. He hooked a FREAKIN monster brown. Prolly mid 20s. Swam into the vegetation and popped off. He caught a 23 inch pellet pig rainbow later on. One of the highest densities of big browns I've ever seen. Tight lines brother!
@@daveofthewoods3133 it really is a great stream. Smart fish, though
Yeah after watching this video it makes me want to go out and catch a few fish thanks for sharing great video and happy new year to you 👍🇮🇪🤝
Happy new year!
Just fished there last week. Great stretch of creek caught me a 19inch brown on a big on an articulated streamer
I remember when I first started fly fishing. Lol. You should come to N.Y in the fall and fish some lake ontario tribs. Browns to 15 pounds
Good job
Holy Jesus blessed 🙂🏆🎣
Awesome video man! What are you filming with?
Just my iPhone 11. Quality is kinda bad obviously, but it’s what I got right now so I make it work
'Sacred Doo Doo'. .
We learn something everyday.
Fishing big streamers with too thin of a tipped isnt too smart either.
Better luck next time.
Great video..i was totally zoned in.. over the falls ..still on.. great video
If you plan on catching big wild browns I would suggest you get yourself a much bigger net my man.
I have one that’s been sitting in the garage, just have to figure out a way to attach it to me conveniently. Definitely will be easier with the big net
@@mpfishing5530 it’s the best time of year to be on the water! You are on your way to some great wild brown experiences! Awesome footage!
@ for sure. There’s almost no other fisherman out and the fish are biting great
Sick footage brother….. well the good news is you’ve got that dudes number for next time!!! 👌🤙😁
Appreciate it man. Huge fan of your videos, was cool to finally have a chance at a big brown trout, I’ll be back for revenge soon
Great video and fishing
Hi there, a similar thing happened to me last summer on my local river in the uk, a large tree had fallen in and where the edge is there is now a flow round and trout were rising and I hooked a monster, my rod was bent like a horseshoe and I was trying to keep it out of the branches but to no avail when tippet snapped but I did get to see it clearly for a moment and it would easily go 7 or 8 lbs, great misery followed lol.
What was your rod and line setup?
9ft 5wt, standard 5wt floating line, definitely underpowered. If you plan on using bigger streamers I’d opt for a 6-7wt rod, at least that’s what I’ve heard.
I'm excited to fish my 6lb flouro with streamers next week! Should be a good time!
Might go a little heavier 😅
I would throw atleast 8
That was insane bro I’ve always stopped them before they got down that fall
In hindsight I should have just stood directly at the bottom of the pool the whole time to keep it from going over, and if needed I should have tried to stop it. If the line breaks than whatever, but there’s like a 1% chance it’s still hooked after it goes over all of those rocks
@ yea bro what you said what we do and yea for it to stay hooked and no break off on him is good he’ll be there for another fight! Tight lines buddy
Your jerking the fly a little to fast and a ft slow down a little and make shorter twitches you'll have alot more hookups! Thx nice little creek in the subdivision good thing they don't harass you! Maybe try and cut them off more before they get to the falls but not worth twisting an ankle for mabe stand out in the water downstream a little more just trying to help good luck
Exactly in them deep holes you have to let it get deep and twitch it back to ya .
@@FishingNature87 if you notice the cast where I hooked it, at the start I let it sink for a second or two before retrieving. That was the first time I did that, and immediately it bit. You are onto something
Just the twitches were a little long and hard that's all more finesse they'll swallow it you'll be fine maybe before casting get a little closer to the middle of the stream if not to deep that dirty water they won't see you just sneak out a little farther to cut them off from making it downstream from you good job relax that's what it's all about!
That brown was definitely a heartbreaker.
@@Trails_trout for sure. I’m gonna be making some trips to southeastern pa this winter and maybe a trip to southern WV sometime soon to fish for big browns, I’ll definitely have chances at fish like that one again but for now I’ve pretty much blown my chances at a big brown trout since I’m pretty sure the one I missed is one of the only big ones in that section of water
30 year streamer fisherman here. Word of advice dont chase them up and down the stream. Be better equipped for the big browns. The biggest brown ive hooked was 13lb 14oz and i chased him up and down the stream and he got off. It spooks the hell out of them and they run like crazy. I caught him 1 month later and stayed put and had no problems with him.
I’d only do that with salmon
@@jeremiahurban2457 yeah watching the video back Its easy to see I made a bunch of mistakes. As soon as I saw how big the fish was I just started panicking
Sweet video! Side pressure, 8ilb maxima, a bigger net, and prey the hook is in his mouth. you'll get him next time
Eat it or wear it they say. Snagged fish don’t count.
If he was hooked in the mouth and I lost him, you have no idea how mad I would have been 😂
My exsperience is Colorado related but I'm sure it applies to your area .many times on small streams and rivers the last half hour before dark is when the big browns show up and in the same areas we only caught and saw small fish in the day !
@@danielcline7413 in the wintertime it gets a little cold for that. I’m sure that some of the bigger ones are active then this time of year, but I’d rather wait until midday when the air and water temp warms up, and I’ll also not end up freezing my butt off in the process
@mpfishing5530 I dont blame you I remember fishing the river here in feb.out of boredom we were on the sunny side and I walked down to cast and spooked a big brown in inches of water soaking up the sun right next to the bank I had been fishing just a short distance away but that fish was so busy sunbathing I had to almost step on him to spook him .the river we fish has two kinds of browns up until about 18 inches the have a pretty green back but the larger fish have a really chocolate color from staying out of the sun undercuts and low light feeding .I actually realized that your video was current and that my advice wasnt meant for winter but on the other hand the winter brown I spooked might mean look in unexpected sunny spots where they normally aren't I spotted that brown by its shadow just as I spooked it so keep your eyes open and good luck .
I doubt its unnamed lol just your secret spot 😂. Nice vidoe tho keep on catching
It’s not unnamed obviously, I just put unnamed referring the fact that I wasn’t going to name it. Not really a secret spot either, it’s well known locally and anyone who’s fished the area would probably recognize it by watching this video
Nice trout!
Would’ve been a lot nicer if I landed it, but it was still cool to have it hooked and watch it bite
Will stocked brown trout eat them ?
Definitely, I don’t fly fish for stocked trout that much but I’d assume so. But if the fish are freshly stocked and still accustomed to eating pellets I don’t think they would chase as much. Whereas wild fish that have been eating baitfish their whole lives would probably react better to big streamers.
Bro i literally bought that exact streamer last week
@@TheBaldingPlebs I got all the streamers I’ve been using from the galloup’s slide inn website, but a lot of people sell the same patterns. Circus peanuts, sex dungeons, Heisenbergs, laser legals, etc are all great patterns
@@mpfishing5530 the pic of the fly for the cover art. I just bought it. Awesome dude!!!
Just an FYI, spots been posted a few years, signs are just on opposite side from where you entered. This gonna lead a bunch more people to trespassing
There’s been landowners out a couple of time and nobody said anything, so I assumed it was fine upstream from the bridge right above the falls. Thx for letting me know
sucks you didn't land it but i was a good fight
Quel matériel utiliser vous canne soie. Longueur.
Superbe vidéo
Damn man that sucks ! happened to me a couple times look up the frabil floating trout net 13x18 there not that expensive and got a deep bag.. i got my pb in that creek 26” i knew that section had to have some bigger ones
@@adamsflyco5555 never seen one quite that big in there, but I believe you. Some of the ones I’ve seen swimming around in the summertime would have went 23-24 most likely. Frustrating place to fish but it can pay off big time
it looks a little like your not sure if you fish right handed or left. im presuming your either left handed or learned how to fish from a lefty because you keep swithcing the pole from your left hand to the right. im not sure but ill bet if you figure that out you will hook more fish.
@@ejkelley2364 yeah that’s exactly how I am. I taught myself how to fly fish and that caused a bunch of bad habits
Dont chase stay put...lower the rod apply side pressure. You prob would got em. Rookie mistake...but thats how we learn... when thete foul hooked like that ya cant control them...coming off the spawn theres no way they would fight that hard..i kinda knew it was foul hooked lol. It happens..yhey swipe at it in murky water then the lure gets stunk on a fin body etc...
What do you use for editing?
CapCut. I film and edit everything on my phone, it’s not ideal and I’m looking to upgrade soon but it’s what I’ve got right now
@ man I appreciate it, been trying to get solid answers switching from clipchamp, doesn’t CapCut watermark videos?
@ no, it puts one in the top corner of the video but it can be removed for free. It also puts a watermark at the end of the video but that can be cut out by just cutting the last few seconds out of the video
@ you don’t know how right on you are for a solid response back my guy! I appreciate you and you got my sub from a fellow pa fly fisher and content creator!👊🏻 may your next outing bless you that brute you missed🙏🏼🙏🏼
What part of Pa you in ?
Southern
Looks like maybe a section of the Yellow Breeches, been there alot. If so, it's stocked year long by their club. Also, a very nice c&r section
@ not the breeches. I’ve been meaning to check out that stream soon however, seems to have a decent population of wild browns on top of the stocked fish
If you got at least 6 lb line I could have the drag a good bit tighter
Yeah, I had the drag loose from when I was nymphing a few days before and forgot to tighten it
Nice stream 😂😂😂
Slow down. Slow your retrieve and how fast you are working the runs. Not in a race to cover the stream. Its winter and those big fish are going to be more lethargic than in warmer weather. Some good looking runs there and there are more big fish around than what you are seeing.
Hone your skills and go after some steelhead. Wait till you smack one of those silver amtraks. Some of the most fun you can have on a flyrod in fresh water. 🤘
@@serpent6710It’s a 5+ hour drive from where I live to Erie but it would probably be worth it
@ Well, eventually you will probably get the wanderlust and want to try new streams. How it was with me snd my buddies. We got to know the local streams and resident fish after catching them repeatedly year after year, and seeing new fish grow up and get big, it got predictable. Almost like you knew that this big brown with such and such red spots would be in this hole, and that this smaller one with more yellow on his belly would be this run. It was fun, but gets a bit boring. Nice to try new spots and see what lives there? Change of pace. One of my buddies has been fishing one of the local haunts for 40+ years. Nice population of big browns that go nocturnal in summer dog days. You dissect your system there long enough, you’ll get like that too👍
Unless something changed from last year, you’re posting yourself trespassing so I’d be careful about that
Wasn’t aware it was private. From what I’d heard from other fisherman I saw there and the fact that the landowners I did see didn’t say anything I thought it was fine, but thanks for letting me know
@@timothyweaver3174 what did it look like in terms of signage the last time you were there and found out it was private. Because from what I saw, there were signs posting the falls and then none upstream from the bridge where I got in. I very well could be in the wrong here though
@@mpfishing5530 the signs are along the small side road paralleling the stream. Accessing from where you did you wouldn’t see them. Owner owns both sides I believe
@ ahh then that’s why. The road is closed for construction so I’ve never driven or walked along it
@ I used to fish that stretch frequently beforehand. Definitely enjoyable water
Try strip setting instead of setting the rod straight up, that’s one thing I learned about streamer fishing, you hook way more fish that way.
I’ve been told this before and I try to keep it in mind, but once I’m on the water the moment I get a strike that advice completely leaves my mind 😂 also a lot of the strikes I get are at the very end of the cast when I’m about to lift it out of the water and the line is almost in the guides, for example the first and last fish of this video it would’ve been very difficult to strip set unless you knew in advance a strike was coming. I just wasn’t ready for it
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My dude, get some stronger tippet for the love of god! You aren’t fishing dries. You’ll save more flies, cast better, and won’t lose nearly as many fish.
I’m aware. 3x (8.2lb) was all I had with me that day and that was obviously a horrible decision
A 13-14" trout, is not a small fish.
No not at all. I’d normally be freaking out over catching a fish that size. But when you are using a fly that is 5 inches long, fish of that size are definitely on the smaller side
lose the music. We can't understand what you are saying
I thought you could hear the voiceover just fine but I was listening to it at a really low volume while editing so if you couldn’t that’s my bad. Thx for the suggestion
@@mpfishing5530 The beginning music is loud the rest of the video is much better thanks
@ I didn’t talk at all in the first 40 seconds or so, do you mean the music that was in the background after the 40 second mark? I thought I lowered the volume for that part when editing but maybe I forgot too
Side presssure and heavier tippit, when stripping big streamers like that, they don’t care…
Keep grinding, nice work
Thx for watching man. I’ll probably be using 15lb tippet next time just to be safe, not making the same mistake again
Why can't you say where and what stream you are at??
So it doesn’t get overfished. I don’t mind if a few catch and release fisherman put in the effort to figure out where this is and go fish it, because you could figure out where this is if you wanted to, I just can’t make it that easy where anyone can see where this is at
Why ask stupid questions?