 Good morning from base camp fishing freaks. Let's get that first sip of coffee to start the day today's big day y'all sun is just starting to come up right now and we're going to be moving back south today to go down to a Section of private land that is along this river that we're camping next to I've always carried a fly rod when I've come up here If I'm elk hunting or just camping by the lake to just kind of dabble in it I've never like really studied fly fishing that much It's just you know from what I've known as a kid and you whip it out there Catching bluegills, and I'm lucky enough to get a few trout every once in a while on it But I've really been studying a lot over this summer And I've got two fly rigs set up I've got a Euro nymphing rig which we'll get into and also just a regular standard floating Fly rig so this is going to be the most intense fly fishing day that I've ever put myself into I've actually already got my feet wet and gotten a few trout on the line So I've got some confidence But today we're actually gonna we're gonna pay someone to fish on their private land So in this area there's just sections of private land That work through the BLM land and all that there's fly fishermen everywhere so the opportunity to get on a section that has a little less pressure and We here has some bigger fish. I'm really excited about I want to catch I want to really get into a fish where I'm like it feels like a long I have never gotten into a big fish on a fly. We're talking the light line. This is gonna be exciting stuff So let's pack up the trucks. Let's head to the river. Let's start our banger fly fishing day All right, folks, we just got dropped off here at the spot It's a section of river. It's a couple of hundred yards long kids Don't be throwing rocks in the river. We don't want to scare these trout The crazy part was when we were coming in The guy that took us down here He said How big is your net? And I was like, I don't know about this big. What's that? You already see one? Don't spook him. Oh My gosh, it's a giant. Oh My gosh, it's a giant rainbow. Oh My gosh, okay, let's try not to spook that dude 30-inch rainbow right here. I'm dead serious Right for the kids. Oh, yeah, right there 25 at least. Oh, that's Yeah, that's every bit of it's a giant. That's 20. That's 26 or right there 27 It's like this Look at so the guy asked how big our net was Not big enough to fit that one in there. I could tell you that right now My buddy Lance has a little bit bigger net than I do If we get one of those on it is going to be the fight of a lifetime I'm shaking my fishing freak nerves Are going crazy right now guys. He did mention their uh They eat a lot of dries out here a lot of dry flies, which is exciting There's three of them sitting there Oh my gosh There's giants sitting right here Absolute giants. Oh my gosh Oh my Yeah, we are not prepared for this Man if that doesn't get you pumped. I don't know that's like walking up on a beautiful stump field and just seeing nine pounders just sitting on The base of the stumps Like, you know, they're in here, you know, you go fish water and like, ah, I don't know if there's fish in here Like it's on us to catch them They do see a lot of pressure Maybe they know the pressure of the storms coming in That's true. That's true. We got a big storm coming in tomorrow. I'm not even sure if we'd be able to fish here We're even get down here with all the mud. All those are pbs for me I know I know Dude, that's why he said 26 inches right here Oh my gosh, look at this. You're right. It ain't gonna fit in there Well, let's should we go get the bigger net? I mean, we'll worry about it. We got a first All right guys, let's open it up and see what we're working with What kind of fly do I want to throw? Hmm Do I want to go big or I don't want to go kind of smaller right here? Let's go with a mid-size All right, we're going to start off naked just going with this And I may go down in size If we're not getting any bites And I may need to add some weight to that as we get out here. We'll see what the flow is Really doing and see how it feels But let's get started. All right, buddy. What are we thinking? I I started on with like a Size you were going with yesterday I'm just gonna try to sneak in here See if we see any trout It's actually hitting bottom right there. So that's good Just have one Just did did you see the fish? No, I mean, did you see him before you caught him? I like this flow rate This flow looks good right here And my heart is like pounding What did you get that bite on the Purple that purple one. I went with just a little copper John Get in here. Oh, there's a big one big one. You just spooked. Where'd it go? Hang on dude. We need to fish this before we Go across. Yeah, they're they're in the little deep buckets I see a big one Come on, baby Present the fly. This is looking good. It's a good little break right here between these two Ripples I suppose These are giants. Oh, there we go. I'm on I'm on We're on Come on, baby I don't know if this is the same fish I saw but this is a big one Dude, I might need your net Really? Oh, man, he's in the current. It's right here. He's coming towards me. All right. We're in good position here giants Holy cow. I was sitting there staring at one for like 10 minutes And then I didn't see this one, but he he's the one that got it. The other one I think was bigger Dude, that's a slob. That's 20 inches. Yeah, it might be a bit more Yeah 20, yeah All right, let me hold it Yeah, I want to get a good photo with this guy In the river. I'm shaking, dude. Well, dude, you should see me. I'm telling you I hooked anyone those 26ers. It took off and I lost like that Just jumped and gone just took off gone This is my fish here Keep them in the water Holy smokes guys. Look at this rainbow. That is a giant Get a little bit of video What's all about right here guys? Lance I think we made a good decision. Dude I'm scared to take him out Maybe he's not ready. He's not ready Gosh, look at this thing Look at this thing guys That is a magnet. It's 20 inches. Let's put them right here. Yeah Yep, I 20 20 20 20 plus. Yeah. He laid them flat. I think it's 20 plus maybe All right, let's get a sick photo of this guy And then we'll let him let him go When you also got it like we're back to here Well guys mind I let go of the fish before uh, I was trying to get a photo. I barely got a photo and he uh, he took off on me So 20 inches, bro, dude a 20 inch or dude to start it out. That is awesome And uh, Lance has already had three you said I've had I've had one smaller and and one about that size And then I got one of those uh, 26 plusters and it literally took off And I instantly came out of his mouth. It was massive. What on what are you throwing? Uh, I just switched flies. I broke off and I switched. Would you break off on a rock that little thing? Yeah, okay I got a little pink in it. Yeah All right, I'm throwing a little bit smaller. Yeah, I think that's another it's a print snip though similar And I just put a little bit of weight above it And I was looking at another fish dude that was bigger and I could he wouldn't move wouldn't move and then There's no bite. It just it just goes in their mouth. Yeah, just stopped. Yes It just stopped and I was like, there's no bite. It's just stops. Yeah I'm going I'm gonna walk I'm gonna walk down here with you Guys, that's what we came here for 20 inch plus rainbow trout my pb And euro nymph fly That is incredible. So I think we're gonna euro nymph this morning while it's kind of cold And as it gets warmer and the bugs start coming out Then we'll uh, so switch up maybe to a dry fly hopper I'd be just incredible to see one of those come up and eat on top. So This is awesome We're going, uh, we're going barbless here today guys So you got to keep the pressure on them, but just having that really light rod is His key These rocks that break up the water. This is the key Some of these big ones. They'll sit right behind it. Oh my gosh. I have a giant right in front of me, dude Oh my gosh, bro Dude, I have a giant Yeah Guys, I have a giant less than 10 feet from me This is another this is like a 30 incher I'm sure he sees me. So My gosh Try to step back a little bit Dude, I'm staring at it. I'm staring at a 25 or This is the nice thing about euro nymphing because you can just Keep putting it in the same spot just short little casts And I'm just using my my indicator Cider that I have to See how what my depth is and I'm raising my rod and lowering it depending on Where it's going. I'm just focusing on this fish because it's huge Yeah, he doesn't want to eat He sees me Leave him alone I threw like 40 casts at that one This wouldn't move You were saying you're gonna let them let them run or you're gonna try to net them quick This nymphing is just all sight fishing you're looking at your line You're trying to see the little breaks in the water Might have just had one right there It's hard to tell sometimes it just stops When you're looking at your line, you see the line moving really fast That's not where the fish are gonna hold. It's When your line starts to slow down It's caught behind those Little eddies. That's where the fish are I'm just trying to manipulate my my line to get into those spots It's a difficult spot to fish right here, but I know there's a big one Got him got him got him We're hooked up, baby. I just saw my line stop Oh, he's staying in the stream. It's a big end, baby Let's go We're gonna have to get him out Get him out of this heavy current Oh, now he's going downstream. Oh, he's coming off. There you go giant. I couldn't tell man. They all look big What a fight. Oh my gosh That is very difficult to land these fish Barbless hook and this current You don't want to put too much pressure on them, but Can't let them just run all down the river either That was worth the price of admission right there. I'd pay a hundred bucks for that all day Dang Well, I broke again shoot Let's put a whole new leader on All right guys, we're taking a little break 10 40 been fishing two hours I've had three bites and I have landed my personal best rainbow trout The other one I hooked could have been bigger This set this setup right here is so light The tip the leader is so light too and it's getting tumbled in the rocks when I go to unsnag my Lure, it's breaking off which makes me think if I hook into a really big one like a 30 incher Which we're told are in here and I think Lance had one that was pretty close to that Um, it could just break my line So It's the big debate. Do you go down in line size to get the bites because these fish are so pressured or do you go up and You know not break off get less bites, but not break off. That's where I'm at right now on the on the Euro nymph situation Let me know in the comments down below if you're a fly guy What is your go-to fly because you know, I get questions all the time about In bass like what's your go-to lure go-to lure in it Sometimes I just want to say like well, it really depends on the situation. It really what lake you're at What time of year there's a lot of different variables. I'm sure that's the same with fly But if there's one like a black and blue jig for me That's just something that I love to throw and I tie it on in a lot of different lakes You know a chatter bait with a with a You know a swim bait trailer on the back something like that I can go most lakes catch fish on a jerk bait That's something I throw a year round So if there's anything like that in the fly world where it's a year round kind of deal or just a go-to Let me know in the comments down below I'm going with a 5x pure fluorocarbon leader There's no indicator right here So we're directly tied to the fish sometimes they'll fill that resistance of the indicator or physically see it On top of the water and then they won't bite And you know, even though this is a private stretch it gets fished a lot like it was fished yesterday I don't think these fish are dumb by any means Check this out guys larva Turning to the waters Gotta get this Gotta get the drift down Changes every spot you go We've also got to account for You know the the line Trailing behind. Oh, I got him. Oh god. I lost. I saw him eat it I saw him eat it. I never even saw the fish That was that was pretty awesome. I don't know what I could have done different there It's another one right here giant Carl giants Got him Little guy Little buddy Still an awesome fight in the current though. Wow That is no joke I think this is a brown It is it's a brown. Well, that's awesome Wasn't expecting to catch a brown here. Look at that Look at that fight. There we go Right there guys. It's a beautiful brown trout We'll get him on hook. The kids really want to see him. So Isn't that cool? That's a pretty fish, huh? Got a fish. Look at that pretty fish, Amy This is on your scavenger hunt See those see those pretty orange spots Sometimes they're pink. Sometimes they're orange What do you think about that, buddy? Is that pretty cool? It's pretty It's pretty neat, huh? All right guys, we're gonna let this fish go. Let's see which way he goes underwater Right by the rock. This is hard Well guys, we just broke off the whole Almost the whole kitten caboodle here. I don't even have a tippet ring now So we got a retied tippet ring. Oh my gosh, this is gonna be a nightmare You don't know what a tippet ring is. It's the tiniest thing on earth Oh, I lost it. Holy s***, I just lost two of them. These some bitches will break your ankle right here These some ankle breakers Oh, there's one right there. I see him He's a good one. Oh, he flashed on it. He wants it. He's coming back for it Dang had the right drift on that one Fish on Finally got one guys. I'm gonna show you what I got bit on If I can drag this puppy over here I think he's drag worthy Yep Oh, that's a skinny one. He was hungry So I got this guy on a stone fly Larva, this is the biggest fly I've thrown up here so far Uh, literally second cast I broke off three or four flies And uh, there's a bigger one in there, but this one I've watched him swim over He really wanted it. So that's a good sign All right, buddy, I'll let you go back into the streams beautiful On dry fly. All right Lance just got bit on a dry fly That is really good news I'm I'm honestly getting a little tired of uh Getting caught up in the rocks. It's getting pretty annoying lost a lot of flies Oh, I got another one. Oh, he's a little God, they want that thing though Just not the it's not the 30 inches we see Hot action though there she blows See a little bud tailgate updates Y'all I think I've caught four or five trout now One giant PB started off the day, right? I'm trying to get back on one of those big ones But I've lost eight flies getting stuck doing your own nymphing I just got tangled up and I said Screw it. I'm going to come back to the truck. I'm just going to grab my dry fly I saw two fish in my last little spot That came up. They surfaced that's the first time I've seen that I'm seeing flies starting to fly around everywhere grass stoppers Grasshoppers starting to come out and I've got tons of dry flies. My dad has collected fishing stuff old fishing stuff for years and he's got just thousands of dry flies So I've got some in my pack and I you know what I'm just not experienced throwing these things I'm going to give them a whirl and I think it'd be pretty cool to use some of some of my dad's Really old flies that he's got out here. So you know what these pretty much represent those those little dilly whoppers That I was finding on shore I'm going to tie one of those big bobs on and just see what happens This technique actually requires a little different setup. So I need a floating line Instead of fishing the fluorocarbon and right now I've got a A large tapered leader on here. I'm going to have to Tie on some smaller tippet some mono tippet So we'll get that on here and then uh Then we'll tie a straight dry fly and our our line is a lot heavier the fly line itself And that's going to enable me to to actually cast out there. We're going to do one thing before We start casting we're going to grease it up A little bit of this a little bit of gunk go A little bit of gunk now we're going Purist dry fly on top of the water She's just floating on down I might actually walk down try to find some calmer water. Oh, oh, I just had one Just had one came and licked it This is a certified 30 mother truck and incher Holy dickens Right no way. I'm tricking him. Oh my god. There's another one Holy shiitake mushrooms. These are magnums Magnums I'm gonna see if I can video this trout. It's so big This is the biggest trout I've ever seen in my life He already sees me He's moving That was giant. That's the biggest one I've seen 30 inches for sure Oh, no Oh, no, you guys missed it. I hooked up on the dry fly. Oh my god Oh my god I'm going with him down river. Oh, he's coming in. He's coming in right now. No, he's going up Oh It's not a giant, but it was the coolest fight in my life. Oh my gosh Oh Oh my gosh, this is crazy This is the craziest thing ever Come here, buddy. I'm just kind of hanging with him. It's not it's not a giant dude, but Dude, it took me for a rip Yeah Dry fly dude, it came up it slurped it and took off I saw him take it. Yeah, I saw him take it. I actually was not rolling. I thought I was It came up and just you know It just took off. I got one here saying cast three hits I'm gonna try to come up. Oh, I had one right where Right over there. I saw you. Yeah, it just dude. There was a 30 inch here And he wouldn't move. I know. I mean, it's just nothing Dude, that's crazy, bro. It's time to get a new net. It's time to get a new net, man We're gonna be catching hog jammers like that I mean, that's a good 16. Yeah, so she's solid too, man. 16 inch or just a brute 16 inch rainbow trout Two of the biggest trout in my life At last rainbow I just set it over the top that was The second biggest rainbow I've ever caught my life arguably a better fight than that 20 incher. I mean, it just took off multiple runs Luckily, my buddy Lance was there He kind of got in the back current netted it for me just an awesome awesome fish Now the kids are getting Tired of being out here. Mom's getting tired watching the kids So we're actually gonna head back to camp right now But I would say it was definitely worth it to pay It was a hundred dollars to come fish this 200 300 yard stretch something like that. I didn't even explore the whole thing I was just trying to pick apart every little boulder and we had the opportunities at Really big ones my buddy Lance had had one that was probably one of those 30 inches I wish I could get close enough to film the ones underwater But there are we saw with our eyes 30 inch rainbow trout in here So big so we really got our systems dialed in today It was a little frustrating to get a snagged up and everything like that But I think we got a much better idea of the flies we need to be throwing the length of the leaders You know the exact weights and everything We're getting all that stuff dialed in to go to some other places by our river camp and then our lake camp To go keep catching fish. I don't think we're gonna catch any rainbow is bigger than that But my gosh, I had an awesome time today. I learned a lot about fly fishing And it was a new experience euro nymphing and I also got one on a drive fly. It was amazing So thank you guys for tuning in stay tuned for more camping fishing adventures out here And the great wilderness of colorado. I'll see you in the next