I fished the North Fork yesterday, I caught seven and my wife caught eight. They were all less than 4” long. They were smacking our PMD dry flies all day long.
@@HookontheFly it’s really exciting! I had a few jump out of the water to bite them, lots of fun dispute the tiny fish! Hopefully they’ll survive long enough to grow into big trout!
Fished up there 100s of times, your 2nd fish is about as good as it gets up there. Make a video on DEEP CREEK in the SB mountains, some good fish in those deep holes.
Absolutely epic. You are firing me up to hike in and fish local. Can't wait for fall/winter. We've had an early and hot summer this year so hoping for a cool September & October and w/some early precip (wishful thinking I'm sure). By the way are you also rocking the fiddle and mandolin in your music? Love the personal touch! (I'm taking a similar approach of recording my own music for my vids, awesome to see another angling musician).
A cool Fall would be great but I'm not holding my breath. That's not me on the fiddle, I play several instruments but fiddle ain't one. every once in awhile i get together with the guys and we just play a ton of stringband music and I record it all so i can use it on my episodes. Then other times I just record in my studio with what i have and what i can play, like banjo and guitar and bass, or piano and mandolin or something. I love combining the music and the fishing, stoked you do too!
WOW those are some amazingly chunky wild bows for our local waters.. Love the music too. Thanks for sharing and nice work! Looking forward to watching your other vids. Do you think the creek in this video will be fishable in the fall?
Howdy Mike, stoked you like the video and the music! There may be some fish in this stream in the Fall, but the water will be much lower and much warmer by then so there will be less oxygen for the fish and they have a higher chance of dying after being caught. I'm going to wait until temps start to consistently drop and the water levels rise again, which means when the weather is colder and we get more rain. So probably not until winter. I have another video from this stream coming out tomorrow that I shot back in early June, and that was the last time I've fished it because it was already starting to get too hot even then.
I need to get up there. So close to home but haven't made the trip. I went a few months back somewhere up there but didn't catch anything. One guy down stream caught 1 but that was all the action we saw
It's been really hot and lots of people have been fishing the area this year. you have to get up super early before the water warms up and find someplace that is off the beaten path to catch any fish right now. I'm just waiting til Fall when the weather cools off, and the fishing pressure is a little less. til then it's kern and Owens for me.
Yes, the auction site has them but not as many as 5-8 years ago. Still worth looking for them. I like the first generation Fenwick Feralites the best (1962-1972), but second generation nice too, a little faster action. The handle grip on the first generation are my favorite cork grip of all time, nice big diameter and widest in the front half. Favorite models include FF70, FF75, FF79, FF80, and for second generation, FF705, FF755, FF756, FF805, FF806, FF807. The models over 8’ long get a little heavy and bulky, but FF84, FF85, and FF856 are great casters. All Fenwick fly rods of that era had solid stainless steel guides. There were some 4-piece models too, a little slower and full flex action.
i like your style, and i love a glass rod. check out cool casting for it, especially for switch and two handed rods slow is control my friend check out FlyQ series. the nature of vibration doesn t lie great stuff. love the bend
@@erickim9682 can't give you the name of this place (then everybody would go and there wouldn't be any fish left!) but lytle creek is in your area and has trout.
@@HookontheFly please do brother ! I just always feel like there’s no native trout in there no more because of the people but a buddy of mine caught a 2lb there on the side of the road lol in late September 2023
West Fork hasn't been fishing as good since they've been doing construction on Cogswell. Did you check out my last one I did on the San Gabriel Mountains? it's rad! Got one on the Owens River dropping next week as well.
@@HookontheFly I personally fish somewhere near by can’t burn my spot for the same reason people ruin things . I’ll check it out and subscribe as well for replying 🤙🏻 like the content as well🤙🏻
I loved the colors and size of the second rainbow trout. Those colors tell me that particular fish was of multi generation holdover like the ones that I caught there 36 years ago. It definitely was not a recent stocker. 🎣🌲🌲🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️
@@user-io1bo5gr2m...it's been over 40 years for me... I remember 5-7 inch males with really profound long lower jaws with really dark red stripes on them...they almost looked prehistoric... Around 1984-5 I seen a guy catch one at Huntington Beach pier... looked just like the fish in the San Gabriel River tributary I used to fish....I caught a Brook Trout up past the Bridge to nowhere once... just saying...I really enjoyed watching this... I used to hike back to the waterfall in Fish Canyon when it was a dangerous hike late 70s thru the 80s...✌️ Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school California
@HookontheFly just got back from the channel slammed Lakers on midges and picked up a dozen or so cutts off the some spots on the lake. Gotta love that park man..saw a bear walking through the west thumb ON THE BOARDWALK
