The angler plays the fish from 20 feet up the bank into the mud where net boy swoops in from the upstream side and stirs up all the silt upriver to where the fish lies in the mud. The angler proceeds to sfroke the fish at the bank. Gong show. That fish could have been released in clear water with no net needed downstream from the angler. Brutal performance
Thanks for a great video. Sightcasting videos should be all about refusals+takes and not about the fight. Thanks or showing all the refusals. Very dramatic. Best east coast hatch for sure….hendricksons are like having steak for your appetizer.
I think my favorite thing in the world is fishing the Hendrickson hatch in my home waters back east. Haven’t done it in 15 years. My first time seeing the hatch, i lowered my eyes to water level; i couldn’t see the surface of the water because it was only duns and emergers littering the surface….hundreds of thousands of them floating and spinning down the slow pool. I have NEVER seen a hatch like that since for the last 20 years. Maybe I’m timing the peaks wrong. Seems like the hatches are happening earlier and earlier each year due to warmer springs. I’ve never made it to the Delaware for the Hendricksons. The one time i visited was the March Browns, never a prolific hatch. There was a fly shop (I think it was called Donegal’s or something Scottish-sounding) that had the most unusual March Brown emerger… a huge fly and very sparsely tied. It did NOT look fishy at all, but i did hook likely the largest trout of my life on it but lost the fly and the fish. Since then, i only fish self-tied flies 100% of the time. What a wonderful place that area of upstate is. Magical.
Great to watch and nice to see the family involved. I’m heading to Scotland next Christmas and would love to know who organised your shooting. Thanks again for the great content. Cheers, Rob from Melbourne Australia
I think I recognize one of the rivers guides Chris, aka Vanilla Gorilla! Had a blast with him on the Lower Yellowstone and Bighorn last summer, and plan to get together with him again this year! Love the Bighorn!
DIOS MIO!!! HAY ALGUIEN MAS CON UN BARCO POR 'LAVRO'...Y EL MISMO COLOR COMO MIO! Ese barco puede que tiene treinta anos. Saludos cordiales desde el rio Delaware. TR
Sport ? Slow, lumbering clueless birds, with no inclination as to the mortal danger they are in, are pumped full of hot lead which shatters their little bones and rips into their lungs - and this is sport ? Seriously ? Can not these 'hunters' see what needless agony they are inflicting on sentient creatures ? Have they no pity or empathy ? Is this 'lifestyle' construct that important ? And I own a modern Beretta (SP3) - and am (I'm told by those 'who know') quite the shot; but I could not turn such devastating power on the innocent. And as to how the conditions these poor creatures live before the 'shoot'...
So glad you enjoyed driven shooting in the UK. possibly some of the most dangerous and poor etiquette I’ve ever seen in a line of guns. You lads need to have some instruction or safety supervision before you just go stand on a peg. Only as some of those shots where so low. Not trying to be condescending just that it’s not good to see grown men raising their guns to birds so low, it’s really not the done thing from a safety and etiquette perspective.
I'm not disagreeing but I've seen worse, and from competent experienced guns at times. This shoot is obviously work in progress from the looks of it very few of the guns shoot on a regular basis. No excuse but this seems to be the common place especially when people are inviting inexperienced guns on a driven day.
Doc, Beautiful Fish.... Good Friends, ....What else could you as for... Hope all is well.... The Delaware fished well this year and still going strong.... Tricky but strong.... Hope all is well....Take Care...Thank You
Great advert for how not to shoot driven pheasant - some of these birds so low you wouldn't usually consider even raising the gun to them - 6:50 a terrible bird to shoot at!
So thankful I live in a place where I don't have to stand there and have someone throw birds at me. Public land is something I'll never take for granted
