Fly Fishing for Trout on Connecticut's FINEST Tailwater (Part II)

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★ Check out Part I of this series
★ "June Fly Fishing on the Farmington West Branch",
★ filmed up in Connecticut's Northwest Hills
★ • Fly Fishing for Trout ...
In this episode, I continue my June fly fishing sessions up in Connecticut's Litchfield Hills on the state's most popular tailwater trout fishery: the West Branch Farmington River. Brown trout, as well as nice rainbows and brook trout, thrive in the Farmington's unnaturally cool waters. And come June, there are seemingly limitless opportunities for nabbing these voracious trout on dry flies, even if nymphs remain an ever-present part of the equation.
Be sure to keep your eyes peeled because I announce the winner of the 1,000 Subs Giveaway during the course of this episode! If you're the winner, please get in touch with me, either by email or on Instagram. I put the contact info right in the video.
You guys may remember that I was aiming to start releasing new videos on the 1st and 15th of each month. Well, so very much conspired against me finishing this video for the 1st, but I pushed through today and managed to get up on YT maybe 45 minutes before August 2nd! So... technically.... I released it on the 1st.😉
➤ Location(s)
West Branch Farmington River, Litchfield County, Connecticut
➤ Gear Used
9' 5wt fly rod w/floating line
stimulators, elk hair caddis, hare's ears, pheasant tails, stoneflies, other assorted nymphs
➤ Online
Connecticut Angler website: www.connecticutangler.com
Facebook: / theconnangler
Instagram: / theconnecticutangler
➤ Music Credits
The Call by Scott Buckley | / scottbuckley
Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
➤ Want to See More?
Check out this February flyfishing session on Mill River: more rainbow trout than you can shake a stick at! Watch now: • Flyfishing for Connect...
Interesting in sampling some of Connecticut's finest wild trout waters? Check out my session on Eightmile River, a Class 1 Wild Trout Management Area. Watch now: • New England WILD Trout...

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@ArtisticAngler 11 месяцев назад

The beaver horror sound effect made me belly laugh, great videos man, thanks for your stories!

@tylermclellan9241 Год назад

I just started fly fishing over the past few hours there’s nothing better!! Love your videos definitely learning a lot from them! Keep making them!

@williamkeith8875 Год назад

I miss fishing that river

@matthewlyness8161 2 года назад

Beautiful trout!!!

@AlecColon 3 года назад

Best fly fishing youtube channel for real

@DownstreamDownrange 4 года назад

Awesome video man!!!! Olive body stims been doing well!!! Let’s link up soon. I’ll be over there again this week maybe Thursday I think! Tight lines man

@bigron8346 3 года назад

I'm from R.I. and it takes over 2 hours to get there but i love fishing the Farmington!! Keep the videos coming and thanks!

@mrjorge13 2 года назад

Great videos!!

@wildbrookies 3 года назад

Really liking your videos!! Like your info.to us as you go. Love you when you persevere and finally succeed in getting a trout to succumb to your offerings. Keep up the great footage! Tightlines buddy!

@chasinbowsnbrowns3652 4 года назад

Great work with the dries ! Persistence and patience pays off ! Real nice fish landed ! Great camera work and some nice takes on camera! My favorite river with unlimited opportunities with nymphing and dry fly action! Keep up the good work! Tight lines!

@tylerfish6206 Год назад

Dude you HAVE to go to the salmon river New York , go go go

@ConnecticutAngler Год назад

Oh it’s definitely on to-do list! One of these days…

@justinhull8695 4 года назад

Great vid!

@tightliningmd 4 года назад

Great video! Sucks when they pop off the hook. However, I am always happy just sticking them briefly, proves ya fooled them, the rest is just a luxury. What website did you use for the giveaway? Keep up the great work man, tight lines!

@shayn4220 3 года назад

Awesome

@richmcginn7001 3 года назад

Great video, I am in Torrington and fish the Farmington alot, would be great if we could hook up for a day on the Farminton or another river in the area. You do a great job with your videos, I really enjoy them.

@shayn4220 3 года назад

Lol I’m from T town and fish Farmington 2-3 x a week between steel bridge and Hitchcock , been killing it last couple weeks

@dragonbob2924 4 года назад

I've heard of being kicked out by guides but beavers? They were just bullying you lol.

@matthewgonsalves2479 4 года назад

Save a tree, Eat a beaver!!

@christophereastwood8275 4 года назад

Love the vids! Keep up the great work. Any word on when t-shirts might be available??

@ConnecticutAngler 4 года назад

Thanks for watching! I was, and remain, pretty surprised by how many folks mention that they’d be interested in buying a shirt. It’s something I’m considering now, for sure, but no firm plans at this point.

@GregglesTV 4 года назад

Freaking beavers lol

@markshwindell3788 4 года назад

Do you ever plain on doing bass fishing at bantam lake or any other lakes In ct

@ConnecticutAngler 4 года назад

Well, in the realm of bass fishing, I did all the filming last week for a river smallie episode that’ll probably be out the 1st of next month. And I’m heading on up to Maine soon where I’ll likely be doing some stillwater bass/pickerel fishing, as well. I don’t do a whole ton of stillwater bass fishing these days, though once I finally have a functional boat at my disposal, it’ll be happening more often.

@markshwindell3788 4 года назад

Connecticut Angler awesome to hear keep up the good videos we love them 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

@shayn4220 3 года назад

Conneticut Native 🤘🏻 curious where u buy flies I got a huge hook up if you wanna buy amazing flies , super cheap

@ConnecticutAngler 3 года назад

I tie most of my own flies with only a couple exceptions, including all of those used in this video. However, I do sometimes buy some of my tinier dries and big bass popper flies, either at Upcountry in New Hartford or at Cabela's in East Hartford.

@shayn4220 3 года назад

Connecticut Angler they are 3.50 each I can give you info to get them for 53 cents each u interested ,

@christophersavoldi3258 2 года назад

I'm just curious because I see this a lot of with trout fishing people. But why bother putting it on the reel? Just seems like you are creating a bunch of hassle and possibly losing a fish you were striping it in just fine it seemed.

@ConnecticutAngler 2 года назад

Looking purely at the numbers, I actually don’t take most of the fish I net to the reel, as stripping the fish in is generally just simpler and quicker. But as fish size increases past maybe the 16” point, the benefits of stripping it in start to become more complicated. Assuming you’re usually protecting relatively light tippet like 5x or 6x, and that you’re using relatively small hooks, you’re not going to be able to just jerk the fish in with constant, successive strips. You’ll have to fight it for a while, usually alternating stripping it in and playing it as needed. In that case, you’ve got the time to bring it to the reel anyway, so you’re really not drawing out the fight by doing so, but just using the time during which you’d be playing the fish to also bring in excess line; killing two birds with one stone. And there’s a few benefits to brining the fish to the reel. I’ve definitely had trout in the 16”-20” range unexpectedly get a second wind after stripping them in most of the way, and suddenly they’re tearing through a jumble of my stripped-in line and getting all fouled up. For that matter, if you end up needing to yield line to the fish during the fight to protect light tippet, that can often be done much more smoothly with drag. By comparison, manually letting line slip back through your line hand as needed can be jerky and less controlled, yielding too much or too little, possibly endangering that light tippet or momentarily relieving enough tension to possibly endanger the hookset. My general approach is that if it’s a hassle to bring the fish in on the reel, and I’d literally just be lengthening the fight by doing so, then I strip it in. But if there’s likely to be enough play/fight time involved to bring the fish in regardless, then I’ll maximize what I can do with that time by bringing in the line simultaneously.

@christophersavoldi3258 2 года назад

@@ConnecticutAngler I see, I'm mostly fishing for bass and panfish on the fly rod. Also I'm exclusively use 4x tippet so there is usually no possibility of breaking off a fish not to mention bass and bluegill don't really put up long fights like trout do sometimes.