Fly Fishing Vintage, Fenwick FF75-4 - Wooly Bugged 

Awesome video.

My very first fly rod back in 1978 was a Fenwick FF786 which which I dusted off about a year ago and have not touched my very expensive Arsenal of graphite rods since. That Rod you're fishing is a beautiful thing.

Well done. Excellent gear choice, those small stream brookies deserve classic gear.

Wow Mike, I was expecting you to hook into a 20" fish in one or two of those pools. Thanks for taking us along on another outing with beautiful environs as well as the fish that live there!

Another great video Mike. I’ll certainly be trying small Burn fishing here in Scotland . Super stuff..👍

My brookie set up is a 6’6” glass rod. I love your new vintage set up. Catching wild brookies on dries in the beautiful mountains it don’t get any better than that!

Great video as always. Beautiful stream and great production of the video.

Awesome video as usual.Beautiful scenery and great production! Keep em comin!

Great video and fantastic water! O much fun fishing wild streams. They area hidden Jewel the most just don’t understand!

The Fenwick FF75-4 is a special fly rod!!! It is one of the models of the Fenwick Voyageur 4pcs travel rod line up! Again sweet rod and thanks for the video, thoroughly enjoyed it👍

Great video, gotta say your now really fishing the proper rod for these streams. Keep it up. Jesse

I live in Lycoming County. There are so many beautiful little streams just like this one around here. Your videos as well as my brother's stories of brook trout fishing have inspired me to do more blue line fishing. Cheers!

Love those old glass fly rods. My first rod was a Shakespeare FG 5-wt. I learned how to fly fish with that rod 50+ years ago. Really cool to see you go old school.

Glass is my favorite way to fly fish my favorite fly rod is a vintage Shakespeare Wonderod 7wt so much fun and cast like a dream great video

Great job! I am heading to big Pine this Week, fishing a Fenwick Aetos ... Can't wait... !!

Awesome vid Mike... just got my first two trout both rainbows about 9-10 inches today since picking up the fly rod again.. missed three yesterday now that the water is finally starting to go down on the big creeks around here .

Another fine video. Thanks

i went back to the glass a few years ago,buying a few newer inexpensive rods and finding a few older ones for sale up in northeast Pa. Those Fenwicks are a joy to cast .I didn't realize how many fishermen have gone back to glass. You might be interested in checking out the Fiberglass Fly Rod pages on facebook,with some following the old rods and the others modern glass.Enjoy that glass and tight lines!

Buddies don’t sell you a fishing rod....buddies give you a fishing rod. Nice video.

G'Day from Australia, Lovely looking stream and brook trout. I really enjoyed watching that fly on the water and seeing the trout take it. Excellent video and I look forward to watching more of yours. I have an 8 foot unmarked and I believe unused brown fibreglass rod that I've mated with an Olympic-Pfluefer copy that I've loaded with a WF6 line. Rod and reel are both garage sale purchases. I'm looking forward to trying it out on some of the small streams that I regularly fish, when our Victorian trout streams reopen in September. Those brook trout are very pretty. We mostly have browns and rainbows here in Australia. Brook trout were introduced but never thrived like the other two species. A pity. Cheers, Steve.

Some nice brook trout water. Good tip on the length of stream you look for.

Nice video. Nice seeing you use a glass rod. For those interested in learning more about fiberglass fly rods they can view the Fiberglass Flyrodders website. Covers classic rods up to modern rods made by Orvis, Scott, etc. and smaller rod builders. A very good resource for those interested in fiberglass fly rods or learning more about them.

Nice day, another great video Mike.

Just bought a 3wt glass rod back in the winter. I have had so much fun with it already this year!

The lay out of the video and fishing.. Has shown major improvement.. Keep up the Great Work Mike...

Already love your brookie videos. Now add fishing them with glass!! Great to see

Heading to clear creek to do some wild fishing in a week! Cannot wait...will update upon my return.

Wow that creek is one gorgeous tributary! will have to do some exploring up there sometime the scenery looks absolutely amazing! Hopefully we will be able to really catch a ton this Sunday! Last time I went the creek produced amazing numbers! Never been there when it has been warmer though so I’m not exactly sure what hatches are going to possibly come off or what them browns are going to take! I’m taking the kitchen sink nymph wise hahaha. Since it’s a small creek may use really bright stuff, and if they don’t take that may use something a little more natural looking! At least this Sunday I’m pretty sure we can garuntee we will finally be able to hike to this gorgeous stream! Keep it up mike and tight lines!

I fly fish vintage all the time. Only fly rod I own is the one I purchased in 1986, it still catches nice Rainbows, Browns, and Brookies here in the NorthEast. Though I have been tempted to update to a new set up.

Nice Fenwick! I bought a glass 4 wt. for under 50 bucks about 10 years ago. Dead brookie was not a good look though.

Great video Mike. I Fished that same rod (2 pc. built from a Fenwick blank) for many years. Then about five years ago, I got the 4 pc. 7.5 foot glass Fenwick on eBay, also a custom build. I always get comments on the travel rod, the builder did a beautiful job. I work near Pine creek and live within walking distance of Spring creek but now I'm inspired to try for some wild brookies near here.

I love them glass rods. When I come up I'll bring my 6' 1wt Anglers Roost.

Hey Mike . great video as always. Excellent rod choice and the reel deserves it's cradle. I have one of these , a FF705, 7' 5wt. purchased back in 75. Used maybe 3 times. You are giving me thoughts.

Awsome video be careful of ticks lyme ruins lives. Had it 13 years it's no joke.

enchanting!

Happy to know there are others out there that fish with vintage rods. I have a Fenwick FF806. Would you have any tips on finding out what year it's from? Cheers!

nice technique my dude.

"Buy another glass rod at some point" Question for you Mike, Only one? Give in to the fiberglass addiction.

Your Fenwick is a 6wt rod? That's what's on the rod. Back in the day, the line weights and fly lines actually matched without line weight having to be thicker because of all the current fast actions being made. I have a 1978 Diawa 7' 6" - 6wt that I started with and still use it for about anything. The tip is soft enough to go Brook Trouting and the butt is stiff enough for Smallmouth. Love Fenwick rods!. Thanks for the informative video as always!

You need a smaller net for spots like that. The fly you identify at the beginning of the video isn’t a parachute adams. Looks more like a parachute hare’s ear pattern or something like that.

Great Video! Could you tell me how that Adams is tied?

I want to go fly fishing for brook trout in Pennsylvania soon but don't know where to go because finding information on the internet is virtually impossible. Any tips? Please get back soon.

When are you coming back up to NY to fish?

I fish for trout with an Eagle Claw 4wt rod and a Martin 61 tuna can.

Hey Mike. Can you send me the info for your buddy? I am really interested in getting one of these vintage rods

i have a 5 1/2' Fenwick that Bob Clouser made for me....my favorite rod

What reel are you using on your setup?

Great stuff! Just subscribed. Can you send me the contact info of the guy you mentioned? Thx

I wonder if a brookie would eat that thousand legger, hmm..

Minnow Brookies...beautiful stream however.....