 to the great outdoors, everybody. We are going to do some fly fishing today. So recently, I went camping in my local river spot and this was kind of a preliminary test for some summer camping that we're gonna be doing. Our son, Ben, he's gonna be two years old this summer and that was when we first started taking Emmy camping and she was able to hang around camp and basically not get into too much trouble. So we wanted to kind of test the waters with the opus and him and see how he's gonna do it because this summer we're planning on doing quite a bit of camping and myself doing quite a bit of fishing. And when we go to the river, I always carry a couple of fishing poles and usually I am throwing mostly the meat-gitter right here. This is the new Guggen series micro, the micro rods which are a light rod meant for throwing, you know, finesse tackle, really light stuff like these little rooster tails, little spinners, you know, really small jigs, crappie fishing, of course, bluegill, things like that. But I always carry the fly rod as well. I have a little four-piece breakdown. This is what I carry when I'm hunting and going in the back country. It's just easy to carry. So it's always in my truck. And I usually break it out the river because one or the other is typically better and I am not good at fly fishing. So I'm very confident and I would suggest you guys, if you've never been trout fishing, start out with one of these spitting combos just to kind of get the feel of where the fish line up and where they are. The fly can be absolutely dominant and I've seen it happen plenty of times while I'm out there and other places where I am fishing the spinners or other things and just not getting as many bites or not getting bit at all and I'm watching somebody just slay trout on a fly. And it's sort of like fishing hard baits versus plastics. Sometimes those hard baits in certain situations are really feeding good. It's much more efficient. You can sometimes catch bigger fish. You can really get them going with fishing a hard bait lure like this on the spinning combo. And then it's like the soft plastics at times they're just dominant. You're just getting so many more bites when they're not willing to chase down a hard bait or a fast moving bait. It was one of those fly type situations at the river y'all. So I strapped on my camera, broke out my fly rod and I had my best day trout fishing on a fly I've ever had. So roll that beautiful trout footage. Heading out for a day of fishing. Got my fly in hand. I'm gonna walk him through the water with my buddy in his net. Gonna give her a little dangle. Try a couple of angles and enjoy the beauty that God has made. Thank you very much. All right, folks, we're gonna do a little fly fishing with buddy Lance. He's got all the flies today. I've got a net, I've got a stringer, and we're gonna see if I can stay upright. How are we looking there? Are you sick? Yeah, you're my stick, dude. Looks like you got a little deep there. There's a big rock there, be careful. Well, it looks pretty still. How deep do you think we are here? Probably, uh... That's the jam, huh? Four feeter-ish? Four feeter-ish. Four feeter-ish? Okay. Let's grip it and rip it here, folks. We got a moon above. Got a mega worm tied on. See if we can dangle it up. Right in the juice there. Right in the bubble stream. Just gotta get my length correct. Length is too high right now. I gotta get a little more on it. I gotta get a little longer leader. I'm right here for reference. It's a little short. There's definitely no bathtub out here. Pretty frosty. Oh, she's in the honeypot. Come on, you're in the zone. Oh, I just had them. I had them go in there, Lance. We got our depth correct now. Now we're gonna snatch some jowls. Come on, baby. Can't believe Lance is not hooked up yet. What a loser. Trying to put this thing right in these bubbles. Well, the bubbles are moving the fastest. It's an easy way to see the current. And it looks like my length now is correct. Got the proper drift. I just had one get it getting so many bites. I'm just not connecting. So hungry to losing focus, blood sugar level low. Can he do it? Can he get her done? Oh, ah, got him. There we go. That's what's up. I knew I was gonna get you eventually, bro. Whoa, he's running right by my feet. I was sick. Look at this. Look at this guy. He's running by my feet. What have we got here? Yeah, he likes me. He's about to swim into my net. Fun times. And there we go. Little buddy. Little buddy. You were so fun. Got you just barely in the top of the schmute, my guy. Hook's probably gonna just fall out. Yeah, that's why, you know, if I didn't have a light fly rod, that fish would've been gone or 5,000. All right, we'll let him go. He's not exactly a wall hanger. Get back out here with the mop fly, which I've had a lot of bites on. I'm just not connecting very much. Could have something to do with the poor tying that my buddy Lance did. Let me try wrapping this mother trucker up. Hey, you got any more of these? Someone did a really good job tying this. If I missed another one, I'm gonna have to get into your stash. Fish had some fight on it for not being that big. This current, I think, definitely helps give them a little boost. The whole key here, though, guys, is to look at these currents. That one's got shoulders. Key is to just look at that current, time that drift. That one's got his micro nugget. Let him do his little dance. All these fish are gonna die, so I probably should keep them. But just a little small. Same thing, just barely hooked in the schnoot. They're not exactly sucking this thing in. They're not sucking it too hard. Okay, that's how we go. It's just not a quality eater, but now that we're getting our system dialed, I actually start catching them pretty good. Hey, my good buddy Lance. We are going to Colorado together this year to do some more intricate fly fishing, try to catch some bigger trout. I'm gonna get serious. Got the old tree pounder, huh? I'm gonna get a little better rod for doing this. Get the proper setup. There's none of them. Just smashing them right now. Oh yeah, a jumper. Six pound line. We're not straight down the baby. Oh yeah, sea biscuit. That actually be a nether. I can actually go on this right here. Going with me, buddy. I think I'm gonna have to go with me. There we go. What those good smash right in the one. Right into their schnoot. Take that limber rod, just like crappie fishing, smack a big crappie. That's so good. But like I said, all these fish are going to die in the summer. They're stocked trout. So do not feel bad about keeping a little one or a big one. Got our leader length figured out. I like this fly. We have the drift timing semi-dialed. Get that hook set figured out. Let me get a lance. Oh, a lance with a jumper, baby. Look at that. It's my boy. It's my boy. Pretty good one. I just have one right there, too. Pretty nice one. That's nice. I ain't getting scum today. Yeah, I kind of like using this white. Where's one? Oh, come on. This white cork. It looks like the bubbles. I can't tell what it is, but I see it. I wanna hook him to a big one. I got two and a half, three pounder. Fill that under. There we go. Maybe give me some of that. Give me some of that energy. Oh, he's staying down. Staying down, not vibrating this. We could have a little shoulder. Oh, he's vibrating. Oh, this is a good one. It's a nice one, bro. This one might make the trophy wall pretty decent, yeah. Oh, yeah, look at that. That is quite honestly my PB out here. Definitely on fly. And I believe we will take him home. He actually put it in his grill. Why don't you do it? Why don't you do that? We've got a little sassy sally. All right, yep. We're gonna get our net back on here, and then we're gonna get our fly line untangled. This is bad news. Bears, shoot. Yeah, I got a little situation here. You should have a little new stringer. Yeah, I did get a new one. I forgot it. There we go. Come on, Sugar, there you go. You little devil. No one's sally? We'll get that little Cheeto. Oh, she wanted that Cheeto. She wanted that Cheeto. Ooh, I can feel him trout tugging on me. My waders. Oh, goodness. Just keep early missing them right there. Definitely a hot zone. Yeah, Lance is just dialing them, bobbing them. Oh, I didn't tie this one. This is not my tie. Are you sure? Yeah, he has a barb on it. Feels pretty shoddy. Here, you want a new one? Sure. Give me a proper mega worm. Yeah, that, oh, you went over my line. You already got it. Thank you. Let's get an orange head and a Cheeto buddy. Man, this one you gave me is like heavier. You like? Yeah, I think this one you gave me is heavier. It's pulling down my cork. The tungsten, geez. Some serious stuff, bro. Yeah, I'm gonna have to put another cork on here. I got one. Look at that. Just kind of checked it, kind of pulled into it. They like coming right next to me. Look at this runner. You're my guy. If you've met your end, you've had a good run. You had a good run, but you fell for the mega. Oh, that hook just popped right out. I love it when that happens. All right, I don't really want to touch you that much because my hands are freezing, so just do the old one-hand meat necklace grab. Put you on here for a little bit. Yes, sir. Oh, we're going in. Those are three nice trout, guys. Those are three good trout. So we got our three meters. Now we're just trying to catch a snorch. Hey, you got any bigger corks? Yeah, I can't see my indicator now. All right, so my homeboy Lance just hooked me up with an indicator. Not a bobber for the layman. And this thing right here, it's pretty slick because it looks like a bubble, but literally cannot see my stuff. So actually, you know what? I'm just going to leave this. I'm going to leave this little sea biscuit on here. All right, then we're going to twist this little baby. All right, twist and rip it right in there. See if our worm's twisted. It is. You get a twisted worm, you are screwed. You cannot deal with a twisted worm. Something really interesting that I learned on this trip is the use of a tippet ring. Lance showed me this. I've always just tied the line directly to the fly line and that's not the best way to do it. So you tie a tapered fly line and then you have a tippet ring and then you put your tippet on, which in this case, I'm using some six pound fluorocarbon. The other nifty thing is this indicator. I've never used one like this. Lance hooked me up with it and it is a screw on. So it goes directly on your line and it holds tight. It's better than the cork. The cork works all right, but this screw on one works really well, especially if you use the tippet ring and it almost acts as a stopper. Got the old double cork on there now. Double the pleasure. Yeah. You ever seen anything like that? It's called the double rig, baby. You can really see that thing bop under the surface now. There she blows. Look at that double cork, baby. Double cork bobbin. Oh yeah. Double hook up. Double. That's what I'm talking about. Yes, sir. Nicely done, Lance. Feel like they're getting bigger. See ya, my guy. So I'm gonna be turning these to fish now because I've got my free. I think I just figured out a little spot right about there. It's just on the backside of that moving bubble trail. I'm gonna pop another one. It's pretty fun. Pretty fun watching that cork go under. There we go. Gave her the old, little twitch pop. Look at that jumper. Yes, sir. Cool, cool. Oh, we come off. All right, it was a good show, though. We had a good showing. It's a light button worthy smash. Worm got twisted on me. Man, you're getting bit right there, huh? See if there's something right out in front of me. I'm missing. Oh, yeah, we've got a bit right there. It's kind of fun. A little up close and personal action. All right, he had it for a minute. Yeah. Or you gotta throw a deep out there. Yeah, I think so, too. I actually watched my indicator slowly moving off like a bass bite, so we had it for a hot minute. What a fight. What a guy. What a guy. Get that guy out there. There we go. Send you on your way, little bud. Okay, man, this is pretty fun, guys. I'm not gonna lie. Lance has kind of got me into the fly game a little bit. Freeze your dick off sometimes, but it is honestly challenging and exciting. Once you learn how to cast the rod, that's the hardest part, quite honestly, casting the rod. If you bass fish, you kind of know how to read rivers and streams, so that part's not too terribly hard to understand. It's the drift, it's understanding the proper presentation. It's a little different than bass fishing, but... Oh, it's a bass? Probably a small one, that's pretty cool. Somebody just caught a bass down there, man. Nice. You take that one, you take that one deep in your face. Just let me give you a little snappy hook set. It's gonna be all right, I'm gonna let you go. Got a limit, I'm just gonna let you go, just looking for a hog. There we go. Ooh, good one. Come on now, baby. Shoulders here, what you gonna do? This is a good one. Play them out a little bit. Look at that, beautiful river. Buddy, buddy, standing in the river. Got a giant trout on you that didn't even know it. It's going out, it's going out to sea right now. Ooh, biggie. Pretty nice. I think it's ready, it's ready to be netted. I was going out again. See that girth? You wanna get him? It's going over towards you. Nice. That's a good fish right there. Dude, that's a nice fish. Holy cow. Heck yeah. You can take the net. Yeah, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Man, I just got, I just got double complimented. Lance was pretty low-key about it. That was good, that's a good fish. I mean, heck yeah, guys. See, buddy? Beautiful fish. Unfortunately, I can't keep that guy because I've already got three on my stringer, so no culling allowed. We're gonna continue throwing this mega worm now that I know it rocks giants. Ooh, first cast, fresh worm, baby. Yeah. Yeah. My last two have been pretty little fresh worm come out. Look at that, that is just assembly line level stuff. Check it out, catch white bass like that. Get them off the line. Boom, catch another one. One of the nice things about trout, they don't have any pokey spines. Just a smooth, slippery, delicious fish. Ah, we're smacking some trout out here today, guys. Absolutely smacking, there's, starting to learn there's a couple little spots. There's Lance with another one. There's a couple little key holes. You know, there's, kept some right out in front of us and then there's some kind of out in the middle as well. There it is. There we go. Ooh, nice. Let's ski this one in. Let's ski him in, baby. Ha ha ha. Bastard. Had him, Hagged. See my guy? That's it, that is the spot, come on now. Show me the money. Come off. That is the juice. Oh, I got him. There he is, with some shoulders. Oh yeah, so he's got some beef. Heckin' that bone, baby. Look at that. Mm, it's beautiful. Yeah, buddy. Yeah, we'll catch trout that size all day. That is fun. There we go. That's a good trout, guys. Good fight. I wanna say this is like the most trout I've ever caught on a fly. Hey, buddy. Yeah. How many trout do we catch? I would say 50 plus combined. 50 plus combined trout. That was an awesome day of trout fishing. Of course, I could only keep three trout, but I had so much fun whacking them in a spot where just throwing the spinner, I would have gotten some bites, but just putting it in that exact spot every time, so key, and of course having the right fly on and just catching them one after the other after the other. You know, I realized this setup right here that I have, it's just a backpack setup. I really need to get more dialed on the equipment for going after bigger fish and doing more straight nymphing, Euro nymphing style without the indicators and things like that, but I'm learning. I'm learning and I'm sure some of y'all that fly fish are gonna be dropping comments, telling me what I'm doing wrong and what I need to do and what flies are great, and I appreciate that. Go ahead and drop those comments, help everybody out in the process. I've always fished up in the mountains when I go camping, but I've never really dialed in fly fishing and that is really the way that you catch those big ones, those big, lazy ones, just like bass that they've got their certain spot, they don't wanna move, and just throwing a lure over their heads, although sometimes it may get them, it's not comparable to the fly. That's really how you dial it in, so I wanna get my setup, maybe have a couple of setups ready to go, jump in the opus, take the family and go do some camping this summer. So thank you guys for tuning in today. If you wanna stay tuned for more videos around the house, the lake, the woods, subscribe right here to the channel, and I'll see you on the next one.