Catching BIG Golden Trout in a Small Creek! (Tenkara Fly Fishing) 

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One of my faves of your videos. I can tell that you are just in awe over Goldens. The clear highlight of my fishing life occurred when I hooked a big Golden right at dusk at an 11K' lake in the Sierras. I played the fish toward shore and as it got close, a ray of sun broke through the low clouds and lit the fish just as it rolled on the surface. After releasing that fish I just sat on the rocky shore and relived what I had just seen. That brilliant golden moment will be with me forever.

This is the video that convinced me to 1. Take up Tenkara. 2. Buy the Zen Suzume and 3. Finally begin my motorcycle camping journey. Thanks Tristen 👊🏼

As a lifelong “Bassman”, this video is real easy to appreciate. What a gorgeous run of water and surroundings and you sir, did a fantastic job bringing us the experience. Well done. Those Goldies are quite unique. I hope that little “glade of heaven” never changes.

Gorgeous fish from a gorgeous stream! Thanks for bringing us along!

Absolutely stunning fish! Nice work! One of my favorite videos of yours!

Okay, that was impressive. I'm glad you're trying to keep the location secret. A creek that size would easily be overwhelmed and over-pressured by crowds of fishermen. Frankly, I'm surprised someone told you about it. Glad you got to make a video but I would never "out" a creek that good, especially for a video going on the internet. I'm all about folks going out, exploring and putting in the time and work to find stuff like this. If someone shows up to any of my "secret spots" I welcome them, but I know they didn't hear about it from me. You're a lucky guy to be trusted with waters this great- keep up the good work.

I've watched it 3 times bc it's incredible to see these gems. I'm in awe.

I think my very first response would be a full row of exclamation points! Beyond that, I’ll just offer a very sincere thank you for sharing this amazing outing with us!

Absolutely epic. I can’t wait to try Tenkara this summer on my favorite Oregon river, the Siletz.

Wow! I've never caught a golden or even seen one in real life! Stunning! Such brilliant colors! The flow looked really low. Yet the water sure produces! Beautiful!!! Outstanding!

That was incredible, simply incredible. Great fish, great scenery, and great video!

Another great video keep them comming . They make Saturday morning coffee most enjoyable

Wow, what a stream! Reminds me of a creek I was gifted in Colorado, just a little creek most would drive past without a glance, but follow it in far enough and it's Shangri La!

That was amazing. Remarkable size and colors of those fish. Kudos to your viewer recommendation and to you for not giving up the location.

I've never saw golden trout as gorgeous as these. Unreal. Heaven on Earth.

Love the content , helps deal the stresses of life. All I want to do is fish tenkara but the kids have soccer and lawn has to get cut . These videos help me scratch the itch . Fire content

Great video. Wow, amazing fish and scenery! 👍

Wow! Beautiful Goldens! Thanks!

WOW!! What magic moment!! Nice Job keep up with great videos very entertaining for us who leave for on the fly.

Beautiful fish and beautiful location! WOW!

Really beautiful crick. Awesome fish, Thanks for sharing

This is amazing! Those are fantastic Goldens for any moving water, but for one that is not the immediate outlet or inlet of an alpine lake, this is unreal! Congratulations!

Awesome! Consistently huge fish for not so huge water! That structure has my curiosity cant figure out what it is. Beautiful place! Thank you for sharing your adventures!

What a breathtaking place, and those special fish, Damm

Now that was my favorite video yet. Awesome!!!!!!👍😳🤦‍♂️🇺🇸

Wow this is amazing!

Another awesome video well done

Beautiful fish!! And beautiful countryside!

Awesome creek and fish! So jealous!

Wow! Incredible color. I’m in awe, thanks to that subscriber!

Wow goldens are so beautiful fish stunning most beautiful in the trout family Love the videos thank you for sharing

Epic! Gorgeous fish

Wow ! ! Just amazing. Must get no pressure to have mature fish like those. Great job landing them. Sorry about your net. Been there. Thanks, Tristan.

Man props to whoever tipped you off to this spot, if I had found that stream I wouldn’t tell another soul and take it to my grave 😂 those are truly the most beautiful trout in the world

BEAUTIFUL GOLDEN TROUT! PICTURE PERFECT TROUT! CAN FEEL THE YOUR EXCITMENT! SUCH FUN!

Bucket list fish for me. Just gorgeous, and incredible size for that water. Holy moly.

What a great day with Beautiful fish. Goldens are special. Congratulations

WOW! You are just so very, very lucky; just wish it were me. It is fifty years since I caught a golden trout in a remote Scottish loch high in the NW Highlands.

I love that you don't share the locations where you fish. I used to fish small backcountry streams in Colorado many years ago and the adage "Loose lips crowd small streams" is very true. I used to make up names (Winding Creek was a fav) or just tell folks I couldn't remember the name. Love your channel - brings back fond memories of my younger days.

Fawking awesome bro🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽

Oh my goodness! Nice listener! Fun video.

Wow, I haven't ever seen golden that big. The largest I ever caught were 7" and I thought those were huge. Amazing! Thanks for sharing.

THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED!!!! 💥👍👍

That spot is like a dream…those look like pure strain goldens to me, not unlike some photos I have seen when folks were first discovering these fish. Great video, really enjoy your channel, keep up the great work!

Best quality rare fish video.

I both hate and love this video. Hate it because I'm not the one catching those beauties, lol. Love it because how can you not? Amazing fish and another great video.

On my bucket list! My dad & Uncle used to catch them on the Upper Kern River by Kennedy Meadows 65 years ago.

this is one of your best

Incredible!

Oh! It's a beautiful fish! I'm jealous.😊

Przepiękne rybki 😊👍

No Words... Awesomeness!

Wow!Wow!Wow! Speechless

Awesome video!

Absolutely stunning fish. What is so cool is that this population has evolved to match their environment and be less visible. Look at the larger fractured rocks that make up the streambed. It also looks like their may be tannins or some mineral that is staining the water, again favoring those individuals with that coloration.

Fun stuff~

Wow!!! What a fish, man its hard to keep somthing that pretty!!

Some gorgeous trout you catch.Here in England we have only brown trout that are native wild trout.

This creek is where I caught my first golden trout! Same pocket at 8:40. Well done!

Those goldens are huge to be coming out of a creek that size! I can tell because their par marks are hardly visible. The largest golden trout I've every caught out of a small creek was only about 10". I would totally go through huge lengths to keep that creek a secret

I watched it again. I'm just amazed. I do believe they are pure mature Goldens. No pressure. Clean pure water. I'm amazed.

That's some pretty looking trout.

GREAT VIDEO, thanks for sharing. Could you tell what is the ratio action for your ROD? 6:4, 5:5, 7:3? Thanks in advance

Beautifully 👍👍👍

BTW Amazing stream and trout!!!

that's heaven on earth 😍

Have you tried loop casting in tree/brush impeded areas? It does tend to put more line on the water but has worked well for me and my clan.

Always admire your adventures. Beautiful trout. Your best fishing video I think. Bummer about loosing your net. Strange how you get attached to them.

they sure are gorgeous

“Look at this fish it’s a twelve-incher”, love the concept but made me laugh as I live in Alaska. Nonetheless, sweet video!

How do you position your camera? I seem to have problems setting the angle when I use my head mount.

Really well done video! I have enjoyed watching your vid’s. Keep it up. We should trade creeks sometime

Some great size golden in such a small stream. Some unique coloration. Been a while since I caught some golden. The large ones can be more red than gold. I'm still partial to male brook trout in the fall. You do a lot of fishing and get around. How do you get so much time off? Is Tenkara paying for these trips or is this part of building your channel?

Love your videos. I would love to go and fish up west. Do you ever encounter bears or cougars

Lol you got your karma of not talking about spots almost instantly😂

Wild golden trout or one of my favorite they're usually remote and they are one of the tastiest wild trout

Excellent!..........what was the elevation there?....

beautiful colouration, but look at the colour of the rocks and moss etc. perfectly adapted.

Simultaneously wishing I knew where it was and am glad you aren’t telling us

Were the adipose clipped on some of the fish? Maybe it was just the angle you were holding them.

Days you never forget..

I have been fly fishing for awhile but just got a Dragontail 365, and yes it had a little to do with your recommendation. My question is what size tippet you are using? You are landing those pretty fast and I like that. I generally use 6X and 7X on my nice Euro rods but those have a nice reel if needed. Thank you in advance

Wow... never seen anything like that.

Thank you Golden trout wilderness Tulare county California. Make sure you stop at the ranger station and get a wilderness permit. All of that area burned last year.

have you tried THE SAN JUAN river worm pattern? or any worm pattern? i find they some times work better than real worms do them were BEAUTIFUL fish thank you for sharing them with us

Big fan of not disclosing location. I’ve personally seen spots get ruined cause someone wanted more likes on RU-vid. Wish everyone did what you did

Those were some thick fish! What was the remains of that structure in the last spot?

Love the videos.. just gotta ask … what is it that you do in order to go fishing all the time .. ?

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I'm addicted to his channel now

“Un-Real” or better yet Un-Reel… You hit a trout Gold Mine! This is great content!

I was just about to ask you what the prettiest fish you caught, or at least I was thinking of asking when you caught your first fish! I’d this still the case? 👏🙌🔥❤️

Nice stocker

was that pool at 8min down from an old dam?

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Id move there lol 😆

At a certain size Can you keep those to eat??

The remains of the gold mining dam were neat to see.

Not hybrids! Nice work.