 back to the channel and welcome back to absolute outdoor greatness. Just waking up out of the tent. Me and Stephanie survived the night. It was comfortable, y'all. Last night we had some delicious trout and we were lucky to be able to go out there and get some right before dark. We spent basically the whole day setting up camp, just getting everything the way we wanted to, kind of scoping out, mapping out things. Stephanie has never caught a fish, A, on a fly rod and B, a trout. Period. And we got rainbow trout up here. There's brown trout, cutthroat. There's also some small brook trout up in these little creeks. So I thought it'd be awesome to take her out and experience a little bit of what I got to last time. When I was elk hunting up here in the mountains, I didn't have a whole lot of time to fish. I still did. Enjoyed it immensely. So I've been studying a lot, studying some more rivers, creeks and lakes up in the mountains and that's what we are going to attack. But I'm super excited for Steph to be able to go catch her first trout. And the other awesome thing about having my amazing wife up here is that she is an awesome cook. She does love the outdoors. She is going to make some pancakes this morning to go along with our delicious coffee. I don't know if it gets any better than that. Go ahead and smash it. Let's get the day started. We've really got the perfect setup here, y'all. We've even got this amazing little stump right here. Not really supposed to chop down live trees, but a lot of these are deadfall trees. Just full of sap and what is called fat wood, which is really flammable. It's almost like a torch, so it's super easy to make fires. And I just can't be more pleased with our camping spot. Well, the coffee's ready. Well, what's going on with these cakes? Well, they were a little frozen, so I pre-made the pancake batter, so I wouldn't have to do it out here because it's a lot of things to lug around. I went ahead and put them in the mason jars, but they got kind of like frozen. So we tried to defrost. They're definitely going to be camp cakes. Camp cakes. I think one of them is burning on the edge right there. That's the glass. They're making cakes in there. Inside of the jar. Maybe we're done. Mason cakes. Maybe we're done. Let's go ahead and get that grill started. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Nothing's better than hot, hot coffee. First thing in the morning. You can't even drink it so hot. Yeah, yeah. What do you think you're going to do with that? Do it for the shot. Do it for YouTube. Now, what do you think about fly fishing, baby? You've never caught a fish on a fly rod. You've never caught a trout, so what do you think? Are you excited about this? I'm excited because all I know is like what I've seen in like videos and photos and movies. So I want to like, I wish we had like the full waiter type of thing and then I'd be like really get out there, but we don't. Why don't you start on the shoreline before you go out waist deep. Okay. It might be the way to go. I don't even know the first thing about fly fishing or any kind of technique or anything. You just want that insta photo. Kind of. We're going to get you a trout, don't worry. Okay. But to answer your question, I am excited. I'm excited to see a new thing. Get some of the butter on there, a bit of the stick. Oh, these are going to be some big cakes. Oh, yeah. Did you shape them? Yeah, I did. Shape mine into a stick. Say something prophetic right now. Prophetic or poetic? Either one, such a good shot. Coffee in the morning. I'm going to do a haiku. Coffee in the morning. Leaves of golden, yellow. Hiking around the camp. Campfire. Whoo. That's pretty good. You're so educated. In the kitchen outdoor edition with OSG. Come on now. Like that button now. Probably the most high quality syrup I've ever had at camp. This is my cake. Came out a little crisp, but it's going to taste just fine. Bacon. Coffee. Got to love it. Oh, easy now. You need to turn it down. Just a scotch. Almost had a grease explosion. Oh. It's heavenly. Just look at the trees changing colors, y'all. The taste of fall. I feel like every morning I walk out here, it's a little bit more yellow. Maybe just my imagination. Maybe you're just into the moment. Maybe I am. But I'm telling you what. We can eat this anytime honey. I'm taking you camping every day now. Every time I go. So if it was just me here, I would probably be fishing already and eating a little snack bar about 11 when I'm starving. I didn't bring Stephanie out here to to torture her with outdoor activities. This is how you do it right here. Especially in Colorado when it's you know almost freezing in the mornings. You get your grilled cakes going. Get your coffee. Maybe get a little fire. Have a nice humongous breakfast. Enjoy yourself. And then you go trout fishing when all the bugs start coming out and the trout get active. It's the perfect scenario. Like there's really no need to get out there super early unless you're just hardcore of the hardcore. After that buttery bacon treasure trove of cakery. Thank you my dear. It is time to fish. We found ourselves a river. We're doing a little research right now. It's really important to understand the waters. Know what you can catch and how you can catch them in different things. There are certain regulations. Yeah. So it's pretty complicated right. They are very serious about the regulations. We're only going to be catching and releasing and it's fly lure only so we can't use any live bait or like our bait or anything. Power bait. Yeah. You don't even know what power bait is. Good for you. The water that we found it's moving pretty fast right here. Let me just show you guys what's going on. Now we don't have like hip waiters or anything like that. Well we're going to be doing is just shoreline walking and then trying to cast upstream and let our flies drift down but I'll be honest with you I don't really know how to fish water this fast. Like it is absolutely moving and grooving here. Okay we got our first pool. Small pool. This water is moving really fast. Cast down over here and just reel it back. Go as far as you can. So you try to try to go past all the heavy current and then reel it into like cast all the way over there those rocks. Yeah all the way out there. There you go. Now slowly reel it. It's difficult because the water is moving. Your straggie zone is really small so like they're gonna be in these little these little pockets. See how the currents just kind of taking that blade and then you would pretty much get bit right there. They're not gonna be in the real heavy stuff. Okay. So they need to reel it in. See there's some little calm areas. We're looking for these calm areas that are next to these rapids. Keep tracking. OSG is still troutless. Still troutless. Hey it was kind of rough. The rapids are a lot heavier than I thought they were gonna be. This particular creek that we are on right now is just too hardcore. I think we're gonna have to find some smaller streams or go to one of the lakes. We're gonna switch up our tactics. OSG's got to get her a fish. Still a question. Gonna make it happen today. Well y'all, this car right here has got two flat tires. It is not a good deal. Not a good deal at all. So we had to take a break from fishing. There was an elderly couple in the car and I could tell they needed some help. So me and Steph pulled over and once we got one tire fixed they realized they had another one going down. So we had to take them into the closest town and they've got help now. They got somebody that's gonna fix that tire. Just a tough deal. I felt like I absolutely needed to help them. It could easily happen to us and kind of makes me scared because I don't want to fix a flat in here. I don't have four-wheel drive. I think I will be much better prepared next time. Just knowing two tires could go down. That kind of took a lot of time out of our day but look at this. Just look at that. There's your reward. That's what they were actually driving around to see. There's a lot of people just driving to see the leaves and color changes and whatnot but we're doing that while we fish. Let's get back to fishing, right? Let's get back to fishing. Don't hook me. I'm right behind you. I feel like it's gonna happen here. This is it. Cast one right out this way as far as you can. It's good. Let it sink just a second before you start reeling. Go ahead. Nice steady slow retrieve. Hopefully, hopefully your first trout. I got a couple of bites right there so there's something going on. Oh you had one. You had one. You had him. He's trying to get it. He's trying to get it. He's trying to get it. Oh wait. You feel him bumping it? Yeah. You felt him bump it? He did. Okay you're stuck on a rock now. I saw him. Did you see him? Yeah. You almost had him. He was almost there. Was he going too fast or was he just too fast? No. He just he couldn't make up his mind. He was like, I want it but not that bad. Hooked up baby. Hooked up on the fly. Oh that's pretty. Look at that floppy flopper. Oh man. Okay we found some. Yeah you should come over here. This might be your fly destiny over here. Your first trout destiny. I guess we're gonna let this guy go because we have such delicious meals ahead in our future. This might be a sin to release such a delicious spectacle but I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it for good luck. For Steph. Woo. Look at that. Awesome. I saw him following it and then he smashed it. Yeah. Oh you're hooked up. You lost him. Oh don't jerk on him. Yeah they got a real sensitive mouth. Okay. Just let that yeah just let just keep reeling. You're gonna get a mountain trout with the leaves changing. Tough conditions. That's why I'm hiding the camera behind a rock because it's so windy and I don't have my my microphone. Going with that thing right there. The fake minnow. I got to fish this spot before and it was good but all of this where she was standing was actually underwater. It was like waist deep where she is. Take it easy on it. First fish. Oh look at that jumper. That's a nice one babe. Oh gosh. It's a nice trout. Oh it's a beautiful trout. Watch out for my line. There you go. I just want to ease him up towards the shoreline. Just ease him on up. He's gonna fight a little bit when he sees you. Oh yeah. There you go. Wow. Nice rainbow babe. That's a big one. Oh my gosh. Nice. Let's touch hands. Oh my gosh. It's a beautiful trout. Now let him go. He might be a little distraught from the photo sesh. If he is we'll put him on the stringer but they're pretty feisty. Sometimes it takes him a second to recover. That's a really big trout. Really? There she goes. Nice. You did it. You caught a true mountain trout babe. True mountain trout. Awesome. I deserved that dinner last night after catching one. That's like I've caught one a little bit bigger than that but that's almost as big as the biggest one I've ever caught. Really? Oh yeah. That's a really big one. So I'm gonna say that is a 16 and 3 quarter inch rainbow trout. Really nice one for your first one. I'll take it. Awesome. So caught it on the little spoon here. We made a switch. The old one. Sure everybody the spoon. Hang on now. Now I did not assist her at all in catching that. She did it all on her own. You did give me the bait though. Yeah I mean I kind of helped you out there. Yeah last time I was here the orange wasn't really kicking in but maybe it is now. Thank you. Alright. Let's catch another one. Get another one. No just just come here. Let's get you one on a fly. Really? Yeah no I'm serious. I was looking at one and another one ate my bait. That's the first time. Oh there's another one right there. I can see him. Look at him. They're coming up. Oh yeah we're gonna get one. We're gonna get the trout. The rainbows. Okay hold that. Okay honey have you ever casted a fly? No. I think this is the optimal opportunity to catch one on a fly. For you especially because they're close. They're close in so it's all about momentum with that fly rod. Yeah. You want to go back and a half second cast. Let's more line out of the reel. Like there you go. You're gonna have to go back. You're gonna have to cast it out and then hold your rod tip down. Don't come back up. There you go. Now take your left hand and pull the line not the rod. Okay it's gonna require some lessons. There you go. Alright. Switch positions. Okay when you when you go back don't go forward as fast. Give it a little pause. Okay. A little bit of a pause on the back stroke. That's not bad. That's good. That's good. That's good. Okay now do your stripping. That's funny to say that. Do your stripping. Your your left hand is the control of the line. But what happened to him? May have to go to the lure again. There's close babe. It was about to happen. She's gonna have to find a pot of them again. Getting pretty good at it. You're just pushing like most people do. They push their arm forward and you just want to kind of let your wrist do the work. Let the rod load up on the back end. Rainbow of the fly. Oh baby. Jumper. I knew we'd get one on that point. Well I wanted you to catch that fish. There you go. Look at that guy go. I think that's the deal. You just walk right up on the spot before they see you and then get them. Wooo baby got off. Awesome fight. Gotta respect the trout. Oh got another one. No. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh they're wanting this little fly honey. Alright little buddy. I want my wife to catch you. Let's make it a couple of test casts here. Get you hooked back to your home down there. Want to try? Oh I got him. I switched off dude. Strip it. I'm catching all the trout honey. I just I just switched rods with the staff and I got this other one. Well we've been eating good tonight. We weren't catching release today. See you buddy. If you're done. If you're done with the fly. Okay well we finally broke off our lure and had to come back to camp. The wind was super tough. I think you were over it. Yeah the last five minutes my face got pounded by that wind and I was just yeah it was kind of over it. Yeah we got you know got about two hours out of here which is pretty good. Let's say for you know that's our average gangl two to three hours. Tough conditions out here y'all. And then flush your hands get all freezing and it's hard but you almost had one on the fly. We were in we were in the prime the prime spot that were there. I'm telling you it's gonna happen before we leave. We're gonna go in search of some more areas but you did catch your first rainbow. Yeah great one too. Fought really good. Awesome jumps. That was definitely on my bucket list and my pants are full of fishkew. Sign of some good times. Nice. A lot more to come here from the camp and we're gonna be doing some more adventurous fishing so gotta get Stephanie a trout on the fly and then I want to find some more mountain links. I was actually just talking to a fishing freak over on the side of the mountain on our way up. He was kind of telling me some some other areas. Some juicy areas. Some juicy spots. Hope you guys enjoyed today's video. Hit the like button for Stephanie catching her first rainbow trout and I'm sure it won't be the last. Until the next one I hope you're getting yourself some outdoor greatness and we'll see you on the next video.