BITTERROOT RIVER - MONTANA + NYMPHING TIPS 

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Thanks Joel! GETSOME!

Hahaha thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video!

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Thank you for watching Nate! Glad I could take you back to the bitterroot area with this video.

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Very beautiful river. Thank you for watching!

Couldn’t have said it better myself! Thanks man!

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Thanks Art! Fling some arrows for me there! Wish I could make it

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Looks like a good afternoon!Like to get out that way eventually!

Hahahah I blame Alaska for making me so white 😂 I saw maybe 2 anglers over 2 days there. Thanks for watching Scott!

@@HardwayOutdoors so if a guy from pa loved Montana you could point him in the right direction to get on fish?

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Syndicate pipeline 10 foot 4 weight with Allen trout 2 reel

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Hahahaha thank you! Those fish were really flopping out of my hands in this video! 😂 thanks for watching!

I don’t believe you watched the entirety of the video. I think you just saw me with my shirt off and assumed the water temp was too warm to fish for salmonids. I temped the water downstream and it was too warm. So I kept going upstream in search of cold water. Once I found optimum temperature then I fished. I also fight the fish for as short amount of time as possible. Most of them I don’t even fight, I just fling them safely into my net and they are full of life. Almost every fish jumped out of my hands before the release because they were not fatigued at all. Thanks for watching!

I noticed side pressure - quick to the net, and before that the quick "tighten-up" as all that's required for a sure hook-set. Fish also appeared to come off the hook quickly so I assume you pinched your barbs or started with barbless hooks. I also noticed your use of a thermometer - and not fishing when it said "don't!" (and I haven't seen them all - but still) A shout-out to everybody - start doing that! Here's why: If you fish in other places where, say, browns are the dominant fish, you can inadvertantly kill westslope cutthroats. Rainbows can stand temps up to about 70, browns into the mid-70's, and our native westslope cutts only into the high 60's. The stress of a prolonged fight (and these cutthroats don't quit easily or early) or being held out of the water, even for a photo op, when added to the stress of high water temps, quite often kills trout that appear to swim off unharmed. It's the cumulative effects of combined stress that kills them - not just one thing. I've found, with big river dinks and small stream as-run smaller trout, that I can do a better job of landing and releasing them by joining the tips of my thumb and index finger as a loop around my leader, and then sliding my hand down the leader to cradle the fish. Unhooking and release are quick and easy, and easier on the fish than being lifted airborne into the net. I keep them in the water up to my feet - no inadvertant bashing on the rocks or other damage. If the fish is big enough for the net, out it comes - and the fish is netted while sliding into the net or toward it, underwater. Overall, nice job - and your appreciation for the resource, the trout and their habitat, shines through. @@HardwayOutdoors