Great video! Thanks for the inspiration. When you are trekking through those tight areas and climbing down into gorges are you using wading shoes/pants? Or regular hiking boots?
The sandstone canyon is a cool setting. And the brushy creek? It's good to know that I'm not the only one pulling fish out of places where equipment barely fits. My shortest setup so far – the top two sections of a 10' 3 weight, with a 4 foot length of 6x. It was truly trout stalking, including crawling into position. Now, I'd probably just use the top three sections of a Tenkara rod.
That's actually the size water I prefer and excel at fishing. My "home waters", Big Rock Creek and Littlerock Creek in the North side of the San Gabriel mountains above Palmdale would be about like that by the end of August most years and really brushy like that along a good bit of them. Fished them with a 9'6" 100+ year old split bamboo rod. Poked my rod with just the leader out and a #18 green mosquito through an opening in the brush and trees to a bend in the creek with a big maple growing on the opposite side and a huge root jutting into the creek. The sun was just beginning to set in the canyon. Monster Brown took it. I never stood a chance of landing it. It was all of 20 inches. I got to see and feel that big son of a gun on my line though. The rush of it was kind of indescribable. Almost like I would imagine a heart attack to feel, only good. Don't under estimate small water and the fish it can hold when there isn't much pressure. If you ever find yourself in that area, you should do yourself a favor and fish the two creeks. I've caught Bows, Browns, Cuts, Brookies, hybrids(cut-bows) and at least 20 Goldens(real Goldens, not Palominos) out of them, but that was 20 years ago when their were far less people, and who knows what the years of drought have done. I've seen vids on them from a couple of years ago and they looked different but healthy. And they were areas that were easy access, not the miles that I waded to get to. Lots of pools that would be great for your Tenkara gear. #14 to #20 green mosquitoes or Adams, and #14-16 elk hair caddis, you can't go wrong, and that's 365 days a year. Dries worked even when there was snow on the ground. I found the waters to be best around early June to early August. After the snow melt runoff slowed down a good bit, and before they slowed down too much. I'll never make it back to Cali so I don't mind giving up the spots.
I am really not an avid fisherman and I don't watch fishing videos, except this channel because I LOVE the cool spots you find. If I had the time to devote to fishing, this is exactly how I'd want to do it (well, I would actually eat some of the trout, but aside from that). The Catch-A-Fish-In-Every-County quest is classic SUVRVing, LOL. Love it. 🙂
Brown trout are more adaptable to warmer water then other trout.
What are your favorite flies?
What a beautiful place dude !!!!
You should feel proud that you caught your fish in the hardest parts of the stream. 👍
This was a great one! Definitely shows how well tenkara is for places like this!
What kinda nymphs or flies are you using?
Great video! Thanks for the inspiration. When you are trekking through those tight areas and climbing down into gorges are you using wading shoes/pants? Or regular hiking boots?
Fishing with no real catching fish
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Done subs… nice catch bro
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A lot of bushwhacking, but very gorgeous areas! Such nice colors. And going down via that rope ladder looked really exciting!
Probably been asked before…do you use a strike indicator with this setup? Tough to tell from the video.
I couldn't imagine such a gorge-climbing up&down and detour in the US field. Were browntrouts brought from Europe?
Can you show a closeup of the fly you are using in each video?
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The sandstone canyon is a cool setting. And the brushy creek? It's good to know that I'm not the only one pulling fish out of places where equipment barely fits. My shortest setup so far – the top two sections of a 10' 3 weight, with a 4 foot length of 6x. It was truly trout stalking, including crawling into position. Now, I'd probably just use the top three sections of a Tenkara rod.
When you going to put this up on Discourse?
Do you belong to paradise???
I don't want to be suspicious but you don't 🧐🧐🧐!!!
Just so jealous!!!
That's actually the size water I prefer and excel at fishing. My "home waters", Big Rock Creek and Littlerock Creek in the North side of the San Gabriel mountains above Palmdale would be about like that by the end of August most years and really brushy like that along a good bit of them. Fished them with a 9'6" 100+ year old split bamboo rod. Poked my rod with just the leader out and a #18 green mosquito through an opening in the brush and trees to a bend in the creek with a big maple growing on the opposite side and a huge root jutting into the creek. The sun was just beginning to set in the canyon. Monster Brown took it. I never stood a chance of landing it. It was all of 20 inches. I got to see and feel that big son of a gun on my line though. The rush of it was kind of indescribable. Almost like I would imagine a heart attack to feel, only good. Don't under estimate small water and the fish it can hold when there isn't much pressure. If you ever find yourself in that area, you should do yourself a favor and fish the two creeks. I've caught Bows, Browns, Cuts, Brookies, hybrids(cut-bows) and at least 20 Goldens(real Goldens, not Palominos) out of them, but that was 20 years ago when their were far less people, and who knows what the years of drought have done. I've seen vids on them from a couple of years ago and they looked different but healthy. And they were areas that were easy access, not the miles that I waded to get to. Lots of pools that would be great for your Tenkara gear. #14 to #20 green mosquitoes or Adams, and #14-16 elk hair caddis, you can't go wrong, and that's 365 days a year. Dries worked even when there was snow on the ground. I found the waters to be best around early June to early August. After the snow melt runoff slowed down a good bit, and before they slowed down too much. I'll never make it back to Cali so I don't mind giving up the spots.
I am really not an avid fisherman and I don't watch fishing videos, except this channel because I LOVE the cool spots you find. If I had the time to devote to fishing, this is exactly how I'd want to do it (well, I would actually eat some of the trout, but aside from that). The Catch-A-Fish-In-Every-County quest is classic SUVRVing, LOL. Love it. 🙂
superb ..
I've fished that very spot with a spinning rod! It's such a beautiful place
Good adventure!! Great video!
Like✌️✌️✌️✌️Good fishing👍👍👍👍
Jumped off those small cliffs a few times, great place to cool off during the summer. Never thought there'd be brownies in there. Awesome stuff man
in the summer time come down to central utah and fish clear creek ! lots of fish and perfect for tenkara!
Super cool place
Great fishing there Cheers from boony in Australia