Very informative video. I can see this working in a few of the rivers I fish. It might be a bit easier than nymphing upriver in some stretches as well.
I was born and still are in the wrong country. My friends could not understand me,when I said this when we were young. This feeling is only got stronger as I got older. I use to dream that the little forest at the edge of my home village was like Canada or Alaska.That the small and only (called) mountain there was much bigger. Unending great.With RIVERS. Where I lived in my own build house. With rifles en fishinggear and canoes beneathe at the river where my house was on the mountainhill!!. You have those everywhere over there.And SO Much more. I am glad that these kind of vids are made by enthousiasts like you sir. It calms me,and for a brief small period,I'm not here in (cursing)Europe. But in a country where I should be. I know from my flyfish vacations how it really is,so I said nothing to much I think. What can you really do,for whole days and year around long,without getting bored?? Flyfishing and walking in the trouts and or salmons habitat.
what country you from? Im in Poland, and there's plenty of fly fishing possibilities, either on the south or on the north. also in neighboring countries like Slovakia and Czech
I live an hours drive from this stream, and not a day goes by that I don’t wish I lived somewhere with good fishing, lol. Like the Green River in Utah... ten to twenty thousand browns per mile. This river you’re happy with one small brown a day...
I was fishing the south fork of the Rio Grande and the trout were rising in the riffles. I had read that if you swung your fly they would take and it worked. A fish on every cast. They wouldn't touch a dead drifted fly.
How much would it cost to buy to your tranquility and calmness? I mean when I go fishing I'm very relaxed but just by your tone of voice you're on a whole different level of tranquility. As if you've never been in a rush before. So well collected and organized.
Hi. I am still a beginner but I always thought it was important to fish up stream. For reasons such as stealth and the ability to set the fish better. I'm curious as to why you fish down? Is it because of the technique you use? Specifically talking about small creek trout.
Fishing downstream is a classic wet fly method used for many species. Look up Yorkshire wet flies or North Country wet flies to see both the flies and the technique. Also check out books by Sylvester Nemes and Dave Hughes if you wish to learn more about the method.
hooked4lifeca that’s a common misconception over your side of the pond. North country wet, spiders and Clyde style flies were generally fished upstream here in Scotland and the north of England. All the old writers say it. Tod stoddart, TE Pritt and WC Stewart all recommended the upstream wet. Swinging was just for sea trout and salmon. Lovely vid though😊
Is the act of swinging flies the same concept as swinging streamers? I have a hard time understanding if I am doing something right or wrong when swinging wet flies and soft hackles. Any tip you can give me that might help? It was difficult to convey what I wanted to ask hopefully you understand what I am asking. Thank you for the videos keep making them!
Simplest approach is to think about what we're imitating. Wet flies imitate insects so they must be moved slow as insects don't go ripping through the water. Streamers and bucktails imitate baitfish that do swim well, so we present them faster.
I don't use wet flies though but I fish the same way in small creeks and I swim my streamers alot and when the fly starts to rise up in the water column is when I would get most of my bites
when you get a bite, instead of hook setting with your rod do a strip set which is basically hook setting with your line, sort of like your stripping it back to you.
Little stream? Humm. I caught trout in a stream in which you could not possibly cast, in any fashion: And in two wide steps you were across on the other side! So how did I fish it? I threw, by hand, the fly into the stream and left it drift. I caught two 1.75 pound trout in 5 minutes. The stream was south of Sabrina lake California, north of Bishop.
hooked4lifeca VERY NICE!! I have a 6’ 4wt custom built by Phil Smith about 5 years ago that I love. It’s my go to rod for hitting the tiny Native Brook trout streams.
@@jackkrag Thanks, I appreciate that. It was my first attempt at decent outdoor audio and it turned out pretty good. Coming from a still photography background, I didn't find the visual part of video a big hill to climb, but the audio aspect remains a constant challenge. Full respect to the audio techs out there.
Could you show how you tie it, please? Your small creek video you tied that knot a few times by looping the line on your finger but did not show how to tie the knot. I understand that was not the focus of that video... btw .. you were fishing a Beautiful bamboo rod in that video, just felt it needed mentioning. Cheers
@@stephennolin8129 I haven't bothered doing knot videos as there are so many already out there. Here's a good sample: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ya7ScS6EfOY.html
Awesome video, information & scenery, disagree that swing'n flies for steeles & salmon,some of my biggest trout & bass came on a swung fly, swinging woolly buggers or other streamers produces some of my biggest fish,tight lines & bent rods
You obviously haven't seen some of my other videos. :) To date some of my fish caught on a swung fly, and by no means an exhaustive list: steelhead, chinook, pink, sockeye, rainbow, brown, brookie, Atlantic, smallie, largie, pike, carp, sheephead, black buffalo sucker, channel cat, mooneye, striper, hickory shad, etc.
Ted Knott built the rod and he would tweak existing tapers. I'm not sure, but it was based either on a Payne or a Leonard. Unfortunately Ted is no longer with us otherwise I would ask him.
It's a fly of my own design, sort of a cross between a downwing caddis dry and a soft hackle wet. It imitates female Hydropsychidae as they dive down in riffle water to lay their eggs. They swim down and back up using their wings as if they're flying through the water. Neat to watch as they're all a flutter as they come up through the water column. The fly has to be built to move, plus the pulsing, to imitate the flutter. One of these days I'll have to do a video on tying it as it's a great pattern when the females are active egg laying.
Forgot to include that the common names for Hydropsychidae are Cinnamon Sedge, Spotted Sedge or Tan Caddis. Here's some links about them: www.troutnut.com/common-name/339/Spotted-Sedges bugguide.net/node/view/13136
Not the best picture, but it provides the general idea: www.hooked4life.ca/h4l/files/caddis.jpg It's usually done with a dubbed tan body, but I always tie a few up in caddis green as well.
Not necessarily. This is a very traditional way to fish a wet fly and it is effective. The diving caddis requires movement and doesn't work if dead drifted. It imitates the Hydropsychidae whose females dive down to the bottom to lay eggs. They're very active swimmers and that is what this technique imitates.
It does not matter from where I blow it!Flyfishing down stream.... !! COME ON MAN THAT IS JUST TOO DAMM EASY!!UP UP UP UPSTREAM.... show me UPSTREAM and then catch a fisch like that!! Then you are the mann!!
At least I wasn't using worms. I thought we left this sort of thing behind with Skues and Halford. Since this isn't the Test, I'll fish it anyway I choose, up, down or sideways.
There's a time and place for everything. Swinging a fly or stripping a streamer 45 degrees downstream is a good way to catch the biggest fish in the river. Fishing dry flies upstream isn't the only way to fly fish dude especially since he said there was no hatch going off.
Justin Church JESUS MAN!! We are not talking about streamer fishing! I am talking about the the only way of classic flyfishing and that is UPSTREAM with a nimpf or a dryfly. If you are any good you wil catch fisch.
@philip gerritsen I don't care how you fish buddy. Just saying that fishing upstream with a "nimpf" (nymph) or dry fly is not the only traditional way to fly fish. People have been swinging wet flies for hundreds of years. Look it up. I agree with you that i usually fish upstream, but don't knock it 'till you try it man :) Also i added streamers in there because they're fished in a similar fashion. But we don't have to get into that. @hooked4lifeca Sweet video man, keep it up!
