I saw your thumbnail and thought it looked similar to one of my favorite streams. The first thing shown was a horse shoe print, at that point I was 90% sure you were there. Looking up confirmed it, but I still had to make sure a wild bow was the first thing caught for 100% accuracy. I put out a video called Extended Average about 7 months ago filmed last fall. Like you I was catching more bigger ones than usual that trip, with my biggest being caught on that day. I think like I did, you'd recognize the spots. In one of my other videos I've even caught one cutthroat near the point of the mountain ahead of where you are fishing. I still would like to fish up much higher than that to see if I could find more. Have you ever found them in that stream? Thanks for the video, I moved in April to Utah County so I have not made it back up there this year. So this brought me some joy to watch.
I watched your "Extended Average" video. Excellent video! It is definitely the same stream. I even think we started in the same place. Definitely quite a long hike in. Such a good stream and I have never ran into anyone fishing it. I think fisherman don't like how small the fish are, but you caught a huge Rainbow in there. The largest I have caught out of that stream is about 14". Every once in awhile you can catch a bigger fish. Isn't this stream just made for Tenkara??? So, I have probably caught about 5 Cutthroats in that stream over the years. All of them above where we started fishing. When I was going after the Cutthroat slam I was communicating with the DWR and they said that this stream was a native Cutthroat stream and was on the list to be restored to a native Cutthroat fishery. They said one of the upper tributaries has a decent number of native Cutts still in it with a very small population of Cutts in the area we fished. They ended up not doing the restoration because they had other streams that took priority. Thanks for watching the video. Please say hi if you ever see me out on the stream. I will be the one with the Tenkara setup!!!
Great video. Congrats on the retirement. I just started tenkara this summer, and haven’t fished much in general so I mostly stuck to AF canyon. Had a great time. Next year I’m hoping to spend more time hopefully finding great little streams like this.
I recently went to Montana. Tried to fish the Beaverhead below Clark Canyon reservoir. The Montana FWP shut it down because of the Brown trout spawning. Tried to fish Rattlesnake Creek outside Missoula. They have it closed to fishing unless you hike in 6 miles up the canyon. Tried to fish Grasshopper Creek outside Dillon and the vast majority is private with no public access. It made me realize how lucky we are in Utah to have our rivers open year round and to have so many public accesses. Plus, there are so many accessible streams in Utah! So many, I can't fish them all. You're going to find tons of places to try out Tenkara. Just go to the main streams and look at all the tributaries. Have fun!
The colors were really awesome this year, just bright reds and oranges. I think it was because of all the water we had last year. Then just a few after, everything turned brown.
I wonder why no hoppers in Fort Collins this year? I don't know about Fort Collins, but in Utah we had the most snow "ever". Somehow that just sent the hopper population sky rocketing. I live in Ogden and I have never had hoppers around ... but this year even at my house they are everywhere!
1st, congrats on retirement! 2nd, I miss fishing small trout streams like that, so I am living vicariously through you. 3rd...and most importantly, how was the apple?!?!?!
Thank you for the congrats on retirement. I have been fishing that small stream for many years and have never seen one person on it. A lot of fly fisherman don't like streams this small, but to me it is more than just catching a big fish. It is being out on an incredible river and enjoying beautiful surroundings. I am guessing those apple trees were planted late 1800's or early 1900's when there was a farmstead around that stream. There has been nothing in that area forever. So kinda cool finding the and it was delicious!!!
I saw your thumbnail and thought it looked similar to one of my favorite streams. The first thing shown was a horse shoe print, at that point I was 90% sure you were there. Looking up confirmed it, but I still had to make sure a wild bow was the first thing caught for 100% accuracy. I put out a video called Extended Average about 7 months ago filmed last fall. Like you I was catching more bigger ones than usual that trip, with my biggest being caught on that day. I think like I did, you'd recognize the spots. In one of my other videos I've even caught one cutthroat near the point of the mountain ahead of where you are fishing. I still would like to fish up much higher than that to see if I could find more. Have you ever found them in that stream?
Thanks for the video, I moved in April to Utah County so I have not made it back up there this year. So this brought me some joy to watch.
I watched your "Extended Average" video. Excellent video! It is definitely the same stream. I even think we started in the same place. Definitely quite a long hike in. Such a good stream and I have never ran into anyone fishing it. I think fisherman don't like how small the fish are, but you caught a huge Rainbow in there. The largest I have caught out of that stream is about 14". Every once in awhile you can catch a bigger fish. Isn't this stream just made for Tenkara??? So, I have probably caught about 5 Cutthroats in that stream over the years. All of them above where we started fishing. When I was going after the Cutthroat slam I was communicating with the DWR and they said that this stream was a native Cutthroat stream and was on the list to be restored to a native Cutthroat fishery. They said one of the upper tributaries has a decent number of native Cutts still in it with a very small population of Cutts in the area we fished. They ended up not doing the restoration because they had other streams that took priority. Thanks for watching the video. Please say hi if you ever see me out on the stream. I will be the one with the Tenkara setup!!!
Another great video, my brother! The scenery is fantastic. Keep 'em coming.
I will definitely try. Thank you for the inspirational words.
Great video. Congrats on the retirement. I just started tenkara this summer, and haven’t fished much in general so I mostly stuck to AF canyon. Had a great time. Next year I’m hoping to spend more time hopefully finding great little streams like this.
I recently went to Montana. Tried to fish the Beaverhead below Clark Canyon reservoir. The Montana FWP shut it down because of the Brown trout spawning. Tried to fish Rattlesnake Creek outside Missoula. They have it closed to fishing unless you hike in 6 miles up the canyon. Tried to fish Grasshopper Creek outside Dillon and the vast majority is private with no public access. It made me realize how lucky we are in Utah to have our rivers open year round and to have so many public accesses. Plus, there are so many accessible streams in Utah! So many, I can't fish them all. You're going to find tons of places to try out Tenkara. Just go to the main streams and look at all the tributaries. Have fun!
That’s crazy…fish that size in that little water. Colors were sure dandy. Nice day and video.
The colors were really awesome this year, just bright reds and oranges. I think it was because of all the water we had last year. Then just a few after, everything turned brown.
We usually have lots of hoppers here in Fort Collins Colorado but this year hardly any.
I wonder why no hoppers in Fort Collins this year? I don't know about Fort Collins, but in Utah we had the most snow "ever". Somehow that just sent the hopper population sky rocketing. I live in Ogden and I have never had hoppers around ... but this year even at my house they are everywhere!
1st, congrats on retirement! 2nd, I miss fishing small trout streams like that, so I am living vicariously through you. 3rd...and most importantly, how was the apple?!?!?!
Thank you for the congrats on retirement. I have been fishing that small stream for many years and have never seen one person on it. A lot of fly fisherman don't like streams this small, but to me it is more than just catching a big fish. It is being out on an incredible river and enjoying beautiful surroundings. I am guessing those apple trees were planted late 1800's or early 1900's when there was a farmstead around that stream. There has been nothing in that area forever. So kinda cool finding the and it was delicious!!!