22yo angler based out of Phoenixville, Pa. Fishing every chance I get from freshwater to saltwater. Always going out on new adventures to hunt down new species. Fishing is my passion, learn from experience and results will follow! Keep an eye out for new content weekly!!
Dude there aren’t two bowfin species. Some have the eye on the fin because they’re males. Both genders have it when they’re young but the females lose when they’re fully grown
I’ve fished the Perkiomen a good number of times. Mostly by the mouth where it dumps into the Schuylkill in Phoenixville. I fished a few spots on the Perkiomen towards Harleysville as well!
Those fallfish were cool. The true native apex predator in those waters before humans stocked all those non-native smallmouth bass. I still need one for my lifelist.
Thanks! They’re everywhere here in my creeks in Southeast Pa. I catch Fallfish pretty much every time I trout fish in the spring and fall. My biggest being around 15inches
hey i was wondering how you find spots with cool fish like this i tried going today after watching one your vids but i didnt catch anything that rare or uncommon, im in nj idk where you are but i do want to get into finding and catching lots of different types for fun any tips are appreciated thank you
The uncommon tropical visitors get washed up through the Gulf Stream as larvae or eggs so they start out in the ocean and get blown inshore through inlets where these tropical visitors can find refuge in the bay where there is more shelter and slower currents. So it would be best to start looking for areas behind openings to the ocean that connect to the bay. Any place with decent structure should have a tropical visitor or two although some are much more common than others.
@@TheVilleOutdoors thank you i’ll be sure to try again soon it was fun seeing if i could get any! i was able to get a crevalle jack yesterday idk if that’s considered tropical or not or rare. the bluefish kept messing up my sabina and stealing hooks tho! i just got some of those tiny hooks i have to see some vids on how to tie them i didnt realize how tiny they were gonna be😂
@@mmfish Crevalle Jacks are considered tropics for this far North! They only get about a max size of 4 inches before the water gets too chilly and they go away. The tiny sabiki rigs are super helpful for catching those tiny ones that are more active during the day. If you found a spot with Crevalles there are likely other tropics possible there!
@@TheVilleOutdoors oh okay that’s good i got one then i think the bluefish there prob eat the other tropics lol they chased in every fish i reeled up mostly was catching spots and silver perch
Due to spot burning, I will not give the precise location of this spot. What I will say is that both Norrhern Snakehead and Eyetail Bowfin exist in marshes that stem from the Delaware River. A little work on Google maps and you should be able to find plenty of public access points that will give you a good shot at both species
Yup! This video was my first time encountering Enneacanthus. I have another video up that was posted shortly after this one where I got Bluespotted and I finished it up with Black-banded on an off-camera trip I made with my father. Pine Barrens is such a unique ecosystem. Definitely worth checking out if and when you have the time.
@TheVilleOutdoors I wish I had the salt water option in Central Canada. I did catch some Atlantic silversides, black sea bass and scups last time I was in NYC. So many different fish but being connected to the worlds oceans you never know what may swim by.
Thank you! Saltwater micro-fishing can be done during the day or night depending on what species you are looking to catch. In my last video I fished a micro sabiki rig for species more active during the day, but the species targeted in this video tend to spook easier in the daylight which is why I take the after dark approach.
very interesting video. I've been trying to get into micro fishing myself but i've been struggling to find any tanago hooks, i cant even find them on amazon. any suggestions where i could find them?
As @fishwizard5964 suggested, I usually find mine on anglers emporium. The tenkara bum website has them as well, but they are usually out of stock, but worth a check there as well.
@@TheVilleOutdoors thanks for the advice anyways but you were right, tenkara bum was sold out and anglers emporium is too expensive with its shipping to canada
@@JoshuaHarvey7718 There’s a goon number of them available through various eBay sellers as well, but not sure how much the shipping would be. But that might be another option.
With the amount food available for them in the waters down there I would expect them to be a little more picky with their diet. I would assume there are other fish species and even turtles that would pick up the cut bait before a bowfin got to it.
I was fishing the south fork Potomac in WV last month, couple hundred miles from where you were, and caught TONS of those rock bass, and couldn't find out what they were until now. Thanks! (They are also delicious BTW)
I have heard that they are good eating! Despite what I said about “disposing” of the snakehead in the video. I released this fish back to the water after quick photographs. I typically don’t eat fish that I catch unless I know it will not survive upon release
Damn how u gonna come to jersey and just kill our fish. Didnt eat him didn't use him for bait u could have tossed him back like majority of fisherman in Jersey do
Despite what I said in the video I did release this Snakehead. I’m a catch and release angler by heart and when targeting this species I was torn between what side of the argument to be on. I figured it would be better to say the fish was disposed of, rather than released. But this fish was indeed released
In this video I am using a Ugly Stik Elite 6’ medium light rod and that’s paired with a Shimano Sedona 2500 HG Reel. It’s not a true ultralight by some fisherman’s standards, but it does me well for multi-species creek fishing and stocked trout fishing earlier in the spring.
i fish south central pa, recently got my first baby smallie. thanks for the clarifications on the sunfish, they seem to confuse me with all the hybrids and whatnot. lovely video my friend.
Thank you! And happy to help! I agree the hybrids can be a bit confusing, but with knowledge of defining features of each of the common species in the area you can usually get a good idea of what species hybridized.
I used to fish that first spot, the cops kick you out now. Caught tons of snakehead and bowfin there. You can use shrimp for bowfin, last couple times I was there caught snakeheads and bowfin on swimjigs. I miss that spot.😢
That’s sad to hear. I caught my lifer Snakehead on my first cast there and had thought about returning next spring to try for more, but I’d rather not deal with any Law Enforcement when I don’t need too. I’ve never heard of Shrimp being used for Bowfin! That’s pretty cool
@@Dalesorensen43 I have no problem getting them to bite during the day, but this creek is pretty much absent from larger predatory fish which gives the Sculpin the security to be out and about during the day. Other creeks with sculpin that also support larger fish you may want to try at night.
These hooks I used to catch this little guy are Owner Half Moon Tanago hooks. I purchase them online for fairly cheap. They are size 32 hooks. They come pre snelled so I just attach them to my main line with a barrel swivel.
There are two setups I used in this video. I started out with the St.Croix Triumph 6’6” Medium Heavy travel rod paired with a Penn Battle III 3000. The line on that real is 17lb fluorocarbon which is not ideal for long distance casting, but works for my purposes. The second setup that was used for the small sharks was a St. Croix Avid Inshore 7’6” Medium Heavy paired with a Penn Spinfisher 4500 with 30lb braided line and a 17lb fluorocarbon leader.
Thank you! I love catching micro flatfish species! I live in Pa, but I go to New Jersey a bit in the summer and we get some cool flatfish that show up. I’m always trying to get as many species as possible!
Thanks! They do kind of look like that! One of the main reasons I wanted to catch one is because they look so unique. The black “teardrop” beneath the eye is one of my favorite features of them
Dropper loop rigs are amazing for the micros; it’s basically like a single hook version of a sabiki rig. Love using mosquito hooks(I find them mostly at bass pro) for the rig in sizes 14 through 8
Fun fact, I actually didn’t know how to tie a dropper loop rig until I took the time to learn it in preparation for this trip! Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get the tiny hooks onto the loops with 12lb mono being a little too thick. I thought about attaching them to the loops with snap swivels, but I didn’t have enough of them. I will be more prepared next time!
I wouldn’t say these fish were handled “roughly”. I kept a loose grip on the fish and unhooked, photographed and released the fish in under 35 seconds each time. Each fish was released without any harm done. However I do agree that better precautions could have been taken such as wetting my hands before handling the fish to protect their slime coat and holding the fish in the water to add an extra “revive” period upon release. I do my best to follow these practices in each of my videos, but for this video I did not have proper attire to make it down to the water easily and make that possible. I do appreciate your concern in fish handling as it is important that every angler do the same 👍
I’m not sure myself! I thought the conditions were pretty bad when we were there. Super windy and red flag conditions 4 out of the 6 days we were down for. We left on the 12th and you could tell a big storm was coming.
I love seeing the diversity of the different areas I fish! Per the rules of the energy pyramid of an aquatic ecosystems, there’s always going to be more species of small fish than large fish! That’s why I find micofishing awesome because there’s so many species out there the average angler may never even hear about let alone see!
@@TheVilleOutdoors If you wanna get real tiny, you can take a bottle and a microscope and start looking for microscopic organisms in the water. There are all sorts of things in there!
Hello! It’s best to start by doing a little research! There’s lots of books and online resources out there that will inform you of what species can be found around you. Once you’ve done that you can start looking online to narrow down where to find particular species. I use an app called iNaturalist to find a lot of my spots. On iNaturalist you can search any recognized species my common name or scientific name and in the map feature and it will pop up with pins where others have made observations of that species.
@@TheVilleOutdoors thanks for all the info! i live in southern alberta where theres not a ton of species around me but hopefully will do some traveling up north where there is greater variety of species this summer. Love the content!
I'll send the fisherman in family to your channel. He catches everything from minnows to giant sharks. I thought it was hook fetish but I understand now its a mild form of insanity, fishing in the middle of the night. 😁😆😅🤣🤣🤣😂
😅 It definitely seems a little insane at times! I believe it all stems from some form of OCD I have haha. I wish him the best of luck on his future fishing adventures! Tight lines! 🤙
Most of the time I use small pieces of night crawler for bait on a owner half moon tanago hook. In cases were that doesn’t work I’ll flip a rock in the water and try and find a small nymph or larvae to use.
I live real close to there never fished in that exact spot but I feel like the fishing is finally coming back to the perkiomen it’s been awhile since I’ve had fishing like this around here
I would agree for sure. I’ve fished the Perkiomen in years past and it was not very good. This time around it was much better despite the lack of size it was still fun to catch them in numbers.
