 Welcome back to the channel everybody and welcome to my humble abode here in the mountains. I would like to start this video out by saying that I am an idiot for misidentifying what I thought were brook trout the other day. I was like, man, these are just giant brook trout. So on my way down from the mountain, hopefully you guys watched the last video where I saw some elk for the first time, amazing experience, ran into a fellow Texan fly fisherman, and I just picked his brain because I was like, dude, what's the difference between a cutthroat and a brook trout and a tiger trout and a rainbow and a brown and a lake trout and an arctic char and all these mountain white fish and cocaine. Oh my gosh, this is my section right here. This is normally where I, this is where I live right there. Some crappies, gills, some fishes, you know, you know, I do the white bass, you know, that's what I do. Over here is kind of foreign territory and I'd like to learn. I want to learn more. This name was Scott, I believe by the way. What Scott so graciously did was give me his pamphlet because when I went to the Walmart, I got a pamphlet, but it was just for big game and I didn't realize, I thought it was just an all in one deal, but it was just for big game. So this one is all about the fishing and when you buy your elk tag, you also get a fishing license that's built in and what I realized is when I scrolled here to the pictures page is that what I was catching entirely and could be eating this whole time is cutthroats. The cutthroat crimson slash on either side of the throat beneath the lower jaw having spotting towards tail. That is exactly what I was catching when I thought I was catching here. These are the brook trout. Beautiful fish. They have spots all the way over the real small usually. So he's actually down there fishing like right behind my tent right now and he's like, yeah, you don't even have to leave your tent, catch all you want right here. He's just catching and releasing them, I cannot believe that. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to run up to one of these other lakes up here where I've heard that there's cocanese and some other species. I'm going to use the regular rod and reel, maybe use the fly rod, but just try to feel the cooler. Get some meat because I am hungry, I brought lemons, I brought butter, I brought some Cosmo SPG, my normal fish spice and I use a bunch of other stuff. Y'all I am ready to not make some golden crisps but put a trout on the skillet and some tinfoil. You can go ahead and make fun of me in the comments, that's perfectly fine. That was a bad move. I have no cell phone service, nothing up here. So I was not able to identify this incredibly luck of circumstance that there was just happened to be a fellow Texan here with a regulation manual and gave it to me. Thank you sir. Go catch some fish. Beautiful mountain lake. I've never done this type of fishing. I'm hoping to just have a nice little meat hall and then there's a small town somewhere in these mountains, see it on my map and I'm hoping that they have an ice machine because I need some more ice. So throw the fish in the cooler, get them iced up and you know we got to put them in some butter and lemon and tinfoil. Not a golden crispy today but it's going to be a tasty anyway. Just came over with that jingle y'all. I pride myself on my jingles of fishing and hunting. It's just something I do. Oh my gosh, look at the gorgeous nest there. Wow Jim, wow that ain't beautiful but kick me right in the teeth. So if you were going to pick a place to fish all day and never catch a thing, this is probably the move right here. Look at this absolutely gorgeous scenery. Oh man, I saw some old men around the bank about a mile back and they were literally just doing this, didn't even care, they probably been there all day. See a little bit of surface activity, bam, bam, bam. But what I've got rigged up is what's called a super duper. I've used these for trout before, catching rainbows, throwing six pound Guggen Skawad fluoro. This is one of our brand new sizes, real small. I use this crappie fishing using my Yampa River, which I use for trout and crappies and everything. And we're just, we're going to give it a deep dangle. Got the fanny pack on, got the knife pouch. And the flyer should ready to go, let's get it done. Little super duper coming, get you some. Oh gosh, this is a remote, oh that's a little trout, that's a little brown trout. Come on man. These are the tiny trout. I'm in the leg, now it's time to catch the big ones. Oh my gosh, they're like feeding out here, what is going on? Okay, I'm going to keep moving. Some activity right here, gosh I didn't even bring the fly rod, I didn't even think about it. But those are the little trout, little lake trout. Not lake trout like that, but literally trout that are in them, lake. I've walked around to a point, my buddy marked a spot on the map and said it's a good fishing area, so we'll see. Got some of those coconut salmon, oh gosh I see one right there, that's a trout. Oh gosh, oh gosh I just had one, oh they're following it in, oh they're following it, oh my gosh what in the heck is going on here? I think these are trout, I don't think they're the salmon. So the trout I'm only allowed to keep four in aggregate of different species, but the coquins I can keep ten, this little thing may be too big, but wow they're in here. You can see them just kind of hovering at the surface, they're like all over the tops, all over the tops, maybe I need to throw something that's a little bit more top water-esque. What the heck, they are smashing the tops, I guess I need to, I need to figure out like a little bug or something I can throw out here. Oh gosh I got one, oh baby, oh oh look at that jumper, holy cow, oh I think it's a rainbow, I have no idea to be honest, you're gonna eat so tastefully, this is a rainbow, oh don't give me on them rocks baby, don't give me on them rocks, oh there's another one with it maybe, oh yes that's a rainbow, what a beauty, you're gonna eat like a tasty treat, oh yes, oh no no no don't get away, don't get away, I know this isn't proper trout etiquette here but I am, this is going in my belly so it's not gonna matter a whole lot, oh yes it's good to know, good to know what we got here, all right that's a nice rainbow, break out our strings, don't you love that sound, sound is glory, I'm gonna hold you there with this big rock, okay that is one fish that is going to eat good, who doesn't like a good rainbow trout, my first trout, I can keep four of those guys, oh oh oh he's coming, he's coming, he got it, oh oh he's coming again, oh oh come on, come on, grab that thing, get that thing, let's do it, man I sightcasted that guy, just kind of nibbed it, this is crazy because they're like just at the surface, you know over deep water, oh don't you get away buddy, don't you be trying to get away, especially with my strainer, just had another bite, working this little shallower point here, okay I'm gonna switch lures because they're looking at it, kind of swiping it but they don't really want it, okay we're gonna go with something smaller I think, I'm just gonna go with a plain Jane, a little spoon actually, go with one of these little castmasters with some orange on it, this style spoon in a survival situation, money, I also have some little flies in there, okay a little lure change up, good distance on this guy, oh there he is, oh come on, try reeling it up high, oh he's following it, oh oh oh he dropped it dad go, just a light light hit, hit it on the stop, coming back over to this other windy side I just had another bite, oh he took off with it, wow when they have this thing it is crazy, man they're just not connecting that good, second rainbow on, it looks like these are all rainbows in here, I'm just gonna fight you down this way towards my stringer, besides a little better fish, no don't get off, come on, flop your way out of there, there you go, okay rock climbing, join your buddy over here in the shallow spot, two down, I'm gonna leave my stringer back there for good luck because it usually happens you know you gotta go all the way out of your way, put the fish on there, it's like I'll take just catching the fish at this point, I need two more trout and I can keep ten cocanese but I don't know if I'm in the right area for cocanese, I think mostly what I'm seeing is rainbows which I'm fine with, those are delicious so just give me two more and then I might skedaddle, man they were just like ripping the top, it's raining a little bit, I think they like the sun, oh hit one hit it on the sink, oh hit it again, a little deeper when that overcast comes in maybe, oh got him, got him on the on the sink method, oh my gosh he spit it, oh what a jump, that was amazing, okay so maybe what's happening here is that sun comes out they start coming up top but it's overcast, they just hang down a little bit in the column, geez, oh got another one, got him on the deep, on the deeps, come on baby, don't come up and be crazy, don't come up there and be crazy, we just need you in the net, oh this is a dandy, yeah they're out there, figured them out, look at that little rod, just bent over on the trout, that's pretty cool, you're not as big, you're not as big as I thought but you'll do, I might just be able to let you flop around, oh no, oh gosh that's why using that, that go, oh well I figured them out now, it's gonna say I might just be able to let him flop around and make another cast and double up and then I'll be done, okay going for another switch up, that lure has been good, it's been trusty, oh got him, yes, come on baby, need you, oh man he's a fighter jumper, big time, wow, look at this guy go, this might be different than a rainbow coming right to where my fish are, come to my stringer, oh yeah this might be a salmon, no just a powerful rainbow, the all-powerful rainbow, this guy's good, are you, what are you, you might be a Kokani, you're a Kokani, yes you are, oh yes, oh gosh y'all that's so awesome, I caught a salmon, man this guy fought so much harder than those rainbows, oh gosh it's just all mussel, hooked, oh my gosh barely hooked, all right got me one Kokani, was an awesome fight on six pound zest, that little big rod and then I've got two rainbows, those guys right there those are good eaters, switched up to a little different spoon, more of a kind of a flutter spoon, it's a meps cyclone 1.8 ounce, it's got a little orange thing on the end, that baby just took off with it, oh gosh, let it fall, oh gosh there's one speeding right there, look look look, got it got it got it got it, I think it's a rainbow, not fighting near as hard, oh geez no it might be another Kokani, look at this little guy, oh my gosh there's little runners, look at the intensity, oh, oh man, oh I've never seen a bass do that, oh what are you, you've got to be a Kokani, you're fighting, oh no, no, oh I lost him, should have just slung him up on the bank, I was in awe of his flabbergastion, his flopping mode, okay I think I got a butter lure tied on, that's two Kokanis on this lure, it's really I want I want these Kokanis hooked up on another rainbow, got them on that little maps, come here baby, so much fight to these things, okay I'm going to drag you up on shore, not get broken off by these rocks, pretty good eater right here, what is way different when you're fishing for food, it's like hey I really don't want you to get away, come on baby, get up in these little shallows right here, yes, looks like they're feeding right now, it's awesome surface activity, so get this guy on the stringer and come back, I can keep one more of these rainbows, oh, oh gotta be like a school of fish out there, getting blistered, there he is, oh come on, seeing some surface pops, it's going down, I think these schools are kind of moving through here from what I've seen, they just kind of go back and forth, oh there's one, got him, there we go, it's a rainbow I think, this might complete my trout fishing journey for the day, no no no, this could be a Kokanis, it is a Kokanis, I think they're constantly moving because I've seen the action get just real quick with them and then that's just done, where's the trout are more consistent, we're staying in the same areas, fish on and there is a boat, what we have here, Kokani, Coco, yes, yes, oh gosh got off, got another one, must be a school of them there, don't jump, just don't do it, don't throw this hook, oh my gosh they run, oh gosh, oh, oh these fish are crazy awesome, I'm gonna need to land you sir, wow, what an awesome fish, get up here, yes, came off, I got you, another little Kokani, oh there's a snake, oh wow that's scary, don't know what kind of snake that is but it's definitely a snake, so at this point all I've got six fish, I'd like to get more but I'm running out of time, it's 5.18, you know I'm not gonna hunt this afternoon, definitely don't have time, it's about 45 minute drive back to my camp, I think I'm gonna start just fishing my way back and see what I get and if I don't get anything at least I got some fish enough to give me some meals, you know a couple fish a day and I've got those cutthroat trout that I know or cutthroat trout now that are right behind my camp and I can catch those you know at any point, so I feel pretty good about it, I think those Kokanis are gonna be deeeeeeelicious, got ourselves another, what do we got here, it's another Kokani, come over here to my little pond sir, my little pond of delicious fishes, oh yeah just get right close to them buddies at that stringer, get used to it because you're going to see them, boy these things are slippery like a snake, work my way back a little bit and got a nice eater, trout versus the Kokani, trout are pretty much live on that stringer and these Kokani are so sensitive I guess, they give it their all, they fight their heart out and then they're dead, okay so trout are fairly easy to clean, I've done this before on one of my videos but I've never cleaned a Kokani, I'm gonna try doing this the same way as I would the trout, so I'm just gonna cut from its butt up to the head there and I'm pretty much keeping these whole, I'm just I'm just taking the guts and taking the head off, sometimes you can just rip the whole entire head out, look at those eggs, all that right there you just kind of push with your thumb to get it out, there we go, make a little cut on the top, rinse it out and there's a little blood area, just a little guts there, that little blood area you can just push your thumb in and then push up and you'll feel all those little bones and you push that blood right out and then it's clean, so that's pretty much it, that's all there is to it, cleaning the trout just for video sakes here, it's pretty much gonna be the same thing though, just take your knife, run up there, don't go too deep, I'll cut him right back here, top the head, push all this stuff out, pull right there, he's a little bigger, so he's a little tougher, all that stuff just comes right out, push that blood line out with your thumb and then rinse, and that's the biggest one I got, that's a delicious looking one, these won't be very tasty, I just stopped in this tiny little town, I don't even know what it's called, but this little place right here had ice and there's just some like RVs and like a couple of cabins, it's by Rivers, it's down in the valley, there's a rainbow right there, look at it, it's glorious, anyways we should be set now for a couple of days on food, ice and everything, now we just got to get back to camp and if these roads are windy, it's gonna take me a long time to get back there, I'm probably gonna be cooking up in the dark tonight, just fired up the propane, what I'm gonna be doing for a side, taking some red potatoes, chopping them up and then I'm gonna put those in some butter with some garlic salt and pepper and I'm basically gonna do the same thing with the fish, just tinfoil them up, I'm gonna try a coconut, I'm gonna try a rainbow, just see which one's better, but I feel so much better, today was probably one of the best days I've ever had in the outdoors, it's like full spectrum, you know if you missed the last video I was hiking up in the mountains, I found elk, heard him bugle, you know found a big bull, ran up 40 yards in front of elk, spooked him, but you know just being up there with him, it's amazing and coming back down and catching my food for the rest of the week, like really pretty awesome and wild fish that I've never even caught before, LFG's outdoor kitchen, gotta love it, okay so I've already got one trout on, I've got all my potatoes in there, I'm just taking little pieces of butter, taking that Cosmo SPG, sprinkle a little bit on the inside, outside, half of lemon, I'll just leave that in there with it, wrap it up in the foil, it's going on, I'm gonna have more potatoes than what I need but I'll have them ready for in the morning, some eggs, some ham, maybe some more fish and today it's been a very successful day, they're soft, oh yeah, I think we're gonna be okay tonight, this is why I went fishing, this is that salmon right there, okay that little bone just popped out so we know it's good to go, alright fish are done, let's go and join by the fire, well y'all there's a couple things in life that are pretty unreal in the outdoors, that right there is just amazing, I've already tried a piece of this coconut, it's just out of this world, I've never had it before, hardly any bones, look at that skin just comes right off and then you're just left with these big juice, their bones are so tiny and just eat them, just eat them, cooking in that tin foil with all that steam, the bones just about melt down, oh my goodness, this is how I'm gonna end today's video y'all, you just gotta smash that like button for just literally outdoor greatness, I try to pursue these things, I try to show you guys what's out here, a lot of times it's on the local level in Texas but if you ever come up to Colorado, I mean the state is just full of places like this where you can go and fish and hunt and it's not gonna cost you very much, especially this fishing aspect of it, just get you some little spoons, some flies, you don't have to be good at fly fishing obviously, I suck at it and I've already caught some fish so, big day tomorrow this is gonna be the best fuel I can possibly get, delicious fresh fish and it's just like a taste of home, I absolutely love it if you can't tell, super passionate about it, I will see you guys on the next video, woods deep, going very deep in for elk hunting all day, so stay tuned for that, subscribe so you don't miss a single video and I will see you on the next one, this makes me not even want to elk hunt