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@davidstineman5572 5 месяцев назад

Hard to separate truth from parody…….because so much of this is both. Well played Ben. You never cease to entertain. Your videos are the only reason I get up on Monday😂

@Flyordie11300 5 месяцев назад

This is all facts

@tricknasty7262 5 месяцев назад

Spit my coffee out when you talked about fish so small you launch them into the bushes on a hookset!😂

@MoisheLettvin 5 месяцев назад

ugh just experienced a twinge of guilt from a time I did this and launched the poor little guy into the bushes, never to be seen again. I looked!

@Apenny99 5 месяцев назад

Done this myself too many times

@Flyfishtherockies 5 месяцев назад

You forgot the terrible waterway access law 😂

@owenmanygoats8037 5 месяцев назад

I remembered during my teenage years I could have a whole river to myself and even a lake. No weekend warriors. All I have are memories of empty rivers and lakes.

@JS-hu7pv 5 месяцев назад

This is why I like to fish my home waters in Arkansas when the weather sucks. The trout still bite but the fair-weather fishermen stay home.

@kaingarthwaite228 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for this! Keeping my favorite spring creek fishing spots out so I have them all to myself

@brokenk5hl131 8 дней назад

This is so true! But what’s even funnier is how miserable the front range is. No native bass in the front range, tiny trout in the front range, barely any creeks that are cool and deep and all the deep ones are far and few between. It sucks. It’s definitely the middle land of fishing.

@justal4844 5 месяцев назад

OUTSTANDING parody. I thought Ben had moved, then realized it was Ben 😂. The only thing he forgot is how you need to use #22 or #24 sized nymphs without indicators to catch anything in those high-pressured waters of Colorado 😉

@ventureoutdoorswithkirk 5 месяцев назад

LMAO...lived in CO for years, couldn't have said it better myself!!🤣🤣. The only thing missing were the hundreds of weekend cyclist that think they own the winding roads so you can't pass so you're stuck driving 10mph turning a 2 hr trip into 4 hrs

@Trout_Bum 5 месяцев назад

Living in Wyoming I can tell when someone is from Colorado. They have no problem fishing right on top of you. If you ask them if they are from Colorado, they get pissed. They don’t realize you don’t need to be like that outside of Colorado.

@paigeloomis 4 месяца назад

You should come down to Colorado and fish the Arkansas. Plenty of room for everyone and right after runoff it’s amazingly gorgeous!!

@bradjp3 2 месяца назад

Haha right. I'm from Wyoming and live in Denver. So many of these morons have zero etiquette. I can't wait to get out of here.

@dylanohl7364 2 месяца назад

Drop the mic

@mickanddeb8144 5 месяцев назад

I knew I wasn’t the only one. Great take Ben, keep it up.👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@porjiboi 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for trying to ease the stress these fish get on these waters. Maybe we’ll less people from out of state this year. I hope it works. This is huge.

@unionse7en 5 месяцев назад

shhh don't ruin the ploy! ;-)

@user-pk8ou5tv8f 3 месяца назад

love watching your videos!! I retired a year ago and fly fished once or twice a month. After watching your videos and refreshing approach i'm fishing once or twice a week and enjoying the crap out of it. I have the Provo near by but only fish it in the winter when it isn't a shit show. . Lots of other great water around here. I respectfully request a beer handling video. Keep up the great work

@ronaldmcdonald3965 5 месяцев назад

Thanks. Fond memories triggered. My regional HQ used to be near Boulder, so I would stay the weekend and fish, and worked on a dude ranch one summer in Winter Park. I used to wore National Park summers between college. I am retired now, and maybe next year I will visit where I used to fish.

@wikster6630 5 месяцев назад

Lmao! One if my favorite videos of yours! 60 year native of CO and sadly this has become so true over the last 20 years or so, especially the last 10. Chump house has gotten ridiculous! Cheers

@badfishgood 5 месяцев назад

“This is where Landon Mayer learned how to fish reds” looool hilarious.

@mkoenig57 Месяц назад

OMG. The Landon Mayer slam was a top-10 RU-vid moment of all time. Genius.

@GerdyOutdoors 5 месяцев назад

Cracked me up! Keep the videos coming!

@JethroDodine 5 месяцев назад

Ben, you've absolutely outdone yourself today!!! Guess I'm one of those SOB's from the Colorado Front Range. Wish more folks would migrate to Bozeman!!!

@usmcfrommt9790 5 месяцев назад

No! Ben was the last guy we let in!

@poudrehound3325 5 месяцев назад

This might be my favorite one yet. "where Landon Meyer" learned to fish the reds". That was priceless!

@Coenen2517 5 месяцев назад

Haven't watched yet, Dear God, I hope it's my home state in GA. Hearing Ben bag on The Soque soothes my soul. 🤣

@MrKindermusik 5 месяцев назад

I remember fishing the GA mountains in the mid 80's. It was a paradise. My friends and I got to fish lots of private land simply by walking up to someone's door and asking permission. The state forests were quiet and had almost no pressure if you walked a few 100 yards away from the access areas. No cans of corn or power bait stream side. Today, it's a s*** show. Find a good spot and be prepared to be high holed and low holed. You can still do some decent blue lining if that's your thing.

@halfmoonflyfishing 5 месяцев назад

Ran into some guys in a fly shop in MT dogging the Soque, I couldn't help but join them. I think we can all agree that place caters to the most annoying and obscene group of people.

@nathancottrill1363 5 месяцев назад

I do enjoy fishing in the desert. The Gunnison River is a beautiful place, although it is getting a little crowded at times. Not in the winter though!!

@smattext 5 месяцев назад

What if you fish the dream stream in the winter during the week? Is it still bad!!

@leeacosta9548 4 месяца назад

Newb to fly fishing, been watching the fly fishermen for years while spinning. Bought my first fly rod yesterday at the Fly Fishing show way out on the plains near DIA (Kansas territory). Damn near died listening to your description of CO, pretty much right on. Hope to learn from you and your followers, keep it up!

@chrishenslick5482 5 месяцев назад

Hey Ben. Heard of Rangely? White River splits our town.

@tommyrq180 5 месяцев назад

Love the quick reference to the Animas @5:39, showing it when it was bright orange from a massive mine spill. Bingo. That mine spill source is still there waiting to do it again, too. Plus you have to put up with perhaps the most snooty, annoyingly hipster CO town in the state next to Crested Butte, Durango. And a LOT of whitewater kayak bros trying to kill themselves…

@tprfk 5 месяцев назад

Where do I get the wire mesh waders to fish the South Platte in Denver?

@jellyyjimmy 4 месяца назад

As a native Montanan who lives on the front range in Colorado, this hilariously vocalized everything that I feel from may-december every year. For those people that say stop telling people about montana, just get a clue. The “secret” ain’t a secret. Western mountain states are play grounds for the wealthy. Enjoy it now, it will be unrecognizable in a decade.

@veteranswithoutbenifitsgui9738 5 месяцев назад

Put a Spotter above you on the bridge at the Outlet stores. Then have him direct you under the lights in Winter on where to drop Stimi w/ mysis dropper.

@pmartialburguieres5007 5 месяцев назад

Man! I thought I got you until the VERY end! Brown trout in the Poudre. In fairness we just love having every fisherman from California, er… I mean Bozeman hitting the Henry’s Fork during run off.

@justinchristensen9160 5 месяцев назад

When did you move to Montana? Also I forgot its nearly winter since there is no snow here in Utah yet.

@austinelliott2798 5 месяцев назад

As always, great video. I loved your comment about Texans having no idea what they're doing. I lived in San Antonio for a while and fished the Guadalupe a few times. For those of you not familiar, It's a tail water with only stocked fish that's lined with homes. They paid off somebody to get it included on a list of 50 best trout streams in America. If you find yourself in the area, by all means go fishing, just don't put it on your bucket list.

@benjaminwilliams2086 5 месяцев назад

I live in SA and this has always made me laugh! we definitely got some amazing river fishing but if it’s fly fishing you’re going for I’d go west towards Hunt tx or Medina river. Both are within 8 miles from another and you can get some nice clear walkable water. The west part of the Guadalupe is also where I tend to catch a lot more Guadalupe bass being the head waters and all

@paulberliner6776 5 месяцев назад

Oh sweet, sweet holiday rant! ... and you're right, most of Colorado is in Kansas!

@Fancifulflyfisherman 5 месяцев назад

Loved the pic of all the people fishing elbow to elbow, put a couple kayaks floating down the middle and there’s Deckers.

@brianunger1 5 месяцев назад

Well as a Coloradan I feel attacked because that was just a bit to true. lol. But yes to carp fishing. I am horrible at it as they seem to be a bit more selective in some areas but I am getting there. Till then I am on the 8 mile hike train to the lakes when they are not frozen :(

@dickevans4713 5 месяцев назад

I have lived in Colorado for 50 years and fished in Montana for 45 of those years!!

@44070Swinger 5 месяцев назад

100% on point Ben!

@danchaffer4355 4 месяца назад

So, how did your application with the Colorado chamber of commerce turn out?

@elywilkinson7404 5 месяцев назад

Only suckers and whitefish in Montana. Should probably go to North Dakota.

@alexwilson9940 4 месяца назад

The post COVID fly fishing in New England where I live was wonderful. Because people went back to their jobs and stopped fishing. Weeded out the casuals. I also love the Catskill mountains in NY. We catch some large browns with rat looking dry flies. I'm young and broke. But I want to eventually check out new Zealand

@evanhammond7305 5 месяцев назад

I'll stick to fishing the eastern slopes of Central Alberta. Where the roots run deep and the oil flows.

@marvinbanjo 5 месяцев назад

What do you think of the Grand Canyon as a hole ?

@markabendroth1774 2 месяца назад

Used to live outside Leadville ( towards mine) miss the backdrop.

@curtisgallagher 5 месяцев назад

Ben you are giving away our best secrets for Colorado 😂

@chrispankey807 5 месяцев назад

This is your best video yet

@kwlloyd01 5 месяцев назад

Montana is getting hammered. Over guided and over fished. Let it rest for a couple everyone !

@superhank26 5 месяцев назад

was looking for a little inspiration to hike to an alpine lake this fall. Found a sweet video of a guy crashing his drone into it in wilderness. He left the drone there and posted the video of him crashing the drone. You're not wrong about the influencers.

@HalfInsaneOutdoorGuy 5 месяцев назад

Do one about Utah. i'll help. The provo has the most hook scare faced fish in the world.

@hgj2019 5 месяцев назад

I don’t know, I’ve seen some pretty jacked up fish jaw on the San Juan…

@Hrogthar 5 месяцев назад

Haha, love the Gunnison part, had to mention it, but conveniently left out the black canyon which is probably in a good 40% of your videos lol

@benvee4921 5 месяцев назад

Grand County,,,,,,,,Wyoming guy here. You forgot to mention how reasonably priced and down to earth Cutthroat Anglers are. Especially if you pull in with your Texas plated suburban

@johnmiller5987 5 месяцев назад

I was in a fly shop in Longmont and I tried to talk fishing and one of the guys said that the Poudre was his favorite river. I responded that the Mississippi was mine. I knew at that time that it was not going to work out 😂

@chawdawgz-lh1zd Месяц назад

What’s wrong with the Poudre? It’s convenient, easily accessible with tons of pull offs, and a hell of a lot let busy then the other more popular rivers. Not gonna catch a trophy, but I always have a fun catching fish on the Poudre

@johnmiller5987 Месяц назад

@@chawdawgz-lh1zd Nothing is wrong with it. It's just that after fishing the Mississippi River for 35 years. It's a a creek to me.

@chawdawgz-lh1zd Месяц назад

@@johnmiller5987 I misunderstood your comment, my bad. Gotta defend my home water! Happy fishing

@tedbeck4131 5 месяцев назад

Funny. Funny. Never having been to Colorado and it is still funny. Ben, I hope you fish in BC sometime and rip on us with our Brian Chan throat pumps

@banjomandoguy 5 месяцев назад

This is hilarious. I'm the worst fly fisherman ever, and my family used to rent a dilapidated cabin on the Upper Frying Pan River. We'd hike to the alpine lakes and even I could catch fish. Didn't fish the lower frying pan much, but even then there was a crowd just below the Rudi Reservoir dam that made it look like Bennet Springs, Arkansas on opening day. Sad to hear it is even more crowded. Love your videos!

@Sparrowhawk187 5 месяцев назад

Bennet Springs, Missouri?

@banjomandoguy 5 месяцев назад

@@Sparrowhawk187 Yup, don't know why my fingers typed Arkansas.😀

@theflycrate 5 месяцев назад

😂😂😂 this has to be the best rant I've ever heard.

@nokomisrealestateco7990 5 месяцев назад

This is the best video you've ever done.

@jakenelton1322 5 месяцев назад

It’s such a flex to end a video roasting trout spots state wide to shout out carp fishing! Ben’s the fucking best 🫡

@jaredtandle2596 5 месяцев назад

Eastern Colorado or very West Kansas.. has some ponds and lakes, but being part of Kansas we get to let it flow down to Kansas proper.

@leroyskinner4206 5 месяцев назад

"Rubber hatch", that's a new one for me! Hahaha!

@noahlikescampingandfishing 5 месяцев назад

I live in Colorado. What are some spots that I should fish as a beginner?

@billr1805 Месяц назад

I recommend Boulder Creek, I've honestly never had a bad day there. And catching a 14 inch trout (I've caught exactly one fish that large on boulder Creek, they are usually about 8 inches average) in front of some cranked out homeless dudes making fun of me because they didn't know there were fish there was a lot of fun. If you want some weekender beginner spots in the mountains, I'd say Fraser River is high on my list, and that area is beautiful and a really nice drive to Winter Park. Big Thompson is great, but make sure you figure out easy access points because you don't want to needlessly walk down steep loose rocks. Never do that

@noahlikescampingandfishing Месяц назад

@@billr1805 thanks so much!

@cagideon 5 месяцев назад

Yeah, I’ll stick with the Driftless thanks. Not great fishing but at least there are less people

@MCS-pe7gr 5 месяцев назад

Driftless has amazing fishing if you like spring creeks

@agrxdrowflow958 2 месяца назад

Western Slope of CO is epic fly fishing. Thank you for not telling anybody where to go.

@charlesgrymko6796 14 дней назад

See you on Middle Fork Rock Creek above Moose Lake Sometime All West Slope Cutthroats , Bull Trout ( Dolly Vardens , and whitefish

@toddhull7496 5 месяцев назад

Thought you lived in Colo. When did you move?

@barry4fish19 5 месяцев назад

So glad I fly fish for warm water species, I don’t have any of these problems.

@jeffbonzerpeterson 5 месяцев назад

Love the top secret Yellowstone jabs! 🤣

@ThePorpoisepower 5 месяцев назад

Aside from dodging a few rookie kayakers on the Arizona, I did enjoy my walk and wade

@adrenalzen 5 месяцев назад

My first thought was "screw you." But then I remembered that I started fly fishing in Colorado in the 70s and had miles of the Colorado by myself. The White, holy crap the number of big fish we caught. The South Platte sucked because of all the poaching. It's actually a lot better now, if you're into that kind of thing. The backpacking into the Indian Peaks was incredible with lots of fish and nobody else to be seen. I moved to North Carolina when I was 40 and then had a job offer to move back to the front range. I turned it down because the saltwater fishing in Colorado sucks. Also, the smallmouth are small and so are the large mouth. Carp fishing in the South is incredible. The South Platte is actually pretty lame. When I lived in Colorado I had one fly rod, and now I have 22. Here you need a 3wt all the way to a 12 wt. Yes, even though my wife doesn't think so, I NEED 22 fly rods now. Okay, fly fishing in Colorado sucks now. However, you trout snob lesser fly fishers in Montana really need to learn what fly fishing is all about. Montana is super lame. During the run off all the Montana guides come here just to annoy us.

@H3DG3xC043 5 месяцев назад

Salt fishing in Colorado 😂😂😂

@aapasauce 5 месяцев назад

I have found carp in the weirdest places in the frontrange!!!! But mostly in water.

@flowflyfishing2131 5 месяцев назад

great video. thanks

@russellkastner400 5 месяцев назад

Glad you're on our side ;-)

@noahfrank4653 5 месяцев назад

You forgot about a few rivers in northern CO but I will keep them to myself…

@chriswgates7000 3 месяца назад

You know Ben is legit when he is wearing Kinco gloves.

@danreed2189 5 месяцев назад

You're sending everyone to the Yellowstone? What do you think will happen to that river when everyone follows your advice? Glad I live in Alaska. However, we still have too many people fishing the streams we can drive to, and it gets worse every year.

@MountainStateAngler 5 месяцев назад

Been to Yellowstone many times, always serene. Maybe I'm not going to the popular holes I guess.

@603lunkerhunter8 5 месяцев назад

I wish you would go steelhead fishing on salmon river in ny. Good fish some terrible characters, you would have a great video on it for sure.

@68camarors327 5 месяцев назад

In the public water its true combat fishing the likes few really know, it ain’t no joke.

@mikea9365 5 месяцев назад

I hear you've gotta tape phone books to your chest in case you get stabbed by a Russian while fishing there.

@68camarors327 5 месяцев назад

@@mikea9365 Absolutely dumbest thing I ever heard. Russians are not the threat, the real threat are the Ukrainian Bandero Nazi's flooding in....

@dcwurster813 4 месяца назад

Yes, as a guy who lives in SW Colorado (6 hours from Denver) make sure everybody knows that they should go to Montana…

@chuckb8324 4 месяца назад

As a lifelong Wyomingite you forgot the most famous Colorado river,… the Miracle Mile!!.. we always know spring is in the air when the license plates turn green up here!!

@germm99 5 месяцев назад

Omg... That was the funniest video I've seen in some time. 😂...

@Tat2sam420 5 месяцев назад

Northern Colorado raised, and you are SPOT ON, no offense taken 😂 North Park area is great fishing though, you just gotta get with the locals for that choice water access, whether it be public access or private, some of the best spots I’ve fished up there are all backroad-public areas, just gotta know where to turn.

@ryanbfor3 5 месяцев назад

Shhhhh

@brianjordan8990 5 месяцев назад

The fly fisherman “Karen’s” are gonna love this one. As someone who frequently hits the South Platte, this is hysterical. Well done. 🍺

@NovemberRain1858 5 месяцев назад

I’m came here for their comments. 😂😂

@DndCfishnexplore Месяц назад

Sounds like a good bit of western nc fishing. God help us all when it really picks up. Tons of fish but about three times as many people on the bigger rivers not to mention tubers, rafters, and kayaks. Winter fishing here is best unless you’re willing to hike. As a guide it’s not bad I can put clients on fish while playing bumper race boats but for my own enjoyment I have to go to the much lesser known hometown family spots that no one ever takes the time to get to but has beautiful fish.

@justinlane4960 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for not hyping up the Gunnison

@alinaaseh3679 5 месяцев назад

I enjoy catching 20” rainbows and then getting discount Abercrombie and Crocs at the outlet mall immediately afterwards.

@noah5889 5 месяцев назад

Been planning a CO fishing trip since last summer 😵‍💫😮‍💨

@vdmlinda День назад

Wow thanks! Saved my futute trip❤

@chabib23 5 месяцев назад

Gotta stick to the western slope in Co

@ppa-ei5vu 5 месяцев назад

Preach on brother 🙏

@bleumi4025 2 месяца назад

As a colorado resident, yes.

@evanhammans5733 5 месяцев назад

I love this whole heartedly

@rogerbird7015 5 месяцев назад

Boy. Really hating on Colorado there. But then, down here in Texas, we have the Dramalupe!

@vibratingstring 5 месяцев назад

Kansas!! Haha!! I knew you were going to say that!

@dylanjohnson4004 5 месяцев назад

Best Video Yet. P.S I live in Colorado,

@user-lt3hq3sh8i 5 месяцев назад

HOLY CRAP!!! LMAO.. This is great!

@jakemacri Месяц назад

Everything about this video is 100% amazing.

@99RyanFTW 2 месяца назад

So far II’ve had a good fishing season so far shit I caught a 22 inch male rainbow in downtown Colorado last month

@matthewnorthrup5506 5 месяцев назад

I moved from upstate NY to Loveland, Colorado in 05 and this was not my experience. I thought the Rocky Mt national park was stunning and I got plenty of greenbacks and even arctic grayling.

@codybertram6122 5 месяцев назад

We have ditch trout here in Iowa come get em before the eagles and red tails do 😅

@nicklawrence9216 5 месяцев назад

As a person from Colorado I can confirm that this is Colorado

@halfmoonflyfishing 5 месяцев назад

Alpine lakes are going to be the new fly fishing paradise at some point, especially the really isolated ones. Tourists and guides aren't willing to drag their feet 6,000ft up a mountain for some peaceful fly fishing.