 fishing freaks welcome home back me and LFD are gonna do a little trout fishing today on the great Tani Como below Table Rock Lake lake I fish many times love it up here love fishing for smallmouth spotted bass largemouth bass up here but I've never ventured down here and fish for trout so dad's got a little wild hair for trout and he has convinced me to get get a tiny pole in line and try to go catch one of these trout so join in dad for the day we're gonna try to get a rainbow maybe a what else is in here a big brown big brown I just enjoy the beauty of nature up here in the Ozarks so come along let's get our feet wet and let's get our danglers bent and with Vesta and Camo this thing is cool I love how it comes up right your neck keeps you warm on the frosties yeah it's gonna be a little different game they've turned on the water oh they have yeah oh no yeah may have to break out the bass rods all right so what I've from what I understand so far is they have cranked up the flow below this dam area so I don't know how long it's gonna last but what I'm gonna go with this little clear floating bobber with flies and this allows me to not put a fly rod in my hands which you know I'm not very well trained with but I am trained hard and well on this little guy right here a thousand-size good spinning reel with our panfish series or we call our micro series rod so what a crappie fish with you know I caught trout on this it's perfect for trout as well seven foot light action and I could just fling that out there and I'm going to go with a four-pound test guys we don't even make a good four-pound test I got four pound and I got two pound insane I never fished with that light of line it's like a it's like a hair it's like as thin as a human hair that's gonna be a difficult challenge but we'll see if there's some trout in the water out here see if they want to cooperate and see if we can snatch them in the jowls I'm gonna let you guys know right now I am a noob to trout fishing but I like learning it I like the challenge of it fly fishing is really hard for me it's even bigger challenge but I do like using these spinning rods we're more comfortable and by the way these are launching in February we've got a whole line of these these ultra light to light series rods this type of fishing is difficult for me because reading current reading the rivers and things like that is not something that I'm used to even though that I fished some bass places that kind of look like this the way trout setup is just a little bit different but I've done it enough times now to have a general idea of where I need to be casting and where these fish seem to concentrate and the spot that me and dad are sitting right now is a tailwater of a trout raceway hatchery and they need a lot of dissolved oxygen so they need cold water and they need current to make that happen and they're dumping the current flow out into the river right here so these trout have a pretty consistent form of current where they can use to feed adding the water they're letting out from the dam and it's making it even harder to read where these trout may be sitting and as you guys are gonna see here later on in this video the trout are everywhere I'll show you underwater but right now the the current is ripping and it's hard to see anything under the water biggest thing I've learned over the last few years fishing for trout is you have to get the speed and the depth timing correct once you do that it's like unlocking the secret you start catching a lot of trout and it took me some tinkering but I figured out that about a three-foot leader will get my fly just above the rocks where these trout are sitting even though the water isn't three-foot deep the drift is going to lift my fly up that current's gonna lift it up so I put a little longer leader on there slightly weighted fly and that mixture is getting that fly into that you know few inches off the bottom where it's going to run right into their face there we go beautiful rainbow trout that might be a PB for me back to the beeps so the cast that I'm attempting to make every time is where my float is just out of the current it's not in the heavy current where it's just flying by but it's just out of that heavy current and that's where the trout are going to likely sit they don't want to fight the hard current the whole time they want to find a little seam where they can sit there and see things that are coming by and grab them and not waste too much energy sounds easy but when you're trying to throw something about the size of a booger becomes pretty difficult after about 30 minutes or so of fishing the dam actually stopped pulling the water and the water quickly went from our hips down to our knees and all of a sudden I could see how many fish were down there the water got still the current calm down and it was amazing now compared to other trout rivers that I've fished where they stock these trout every week this place only stocks them about once a month so these trout have time to learn and a lot of people catch and release them and they have figured out to follow around fishermen at their boots I was amazed to see just walking around on the bottom that these trout will follow you and just start schooling around your feet picking up this these little crustaceans that are coming up you would think if you just stuck your little fly right down there while they're schooling around your feet they would eat it but they can see really well that water is clear and they're smart they know the program I gotta say I fished a lot of different places but this is one of the craziest things I have ever seen when that current calmed down the sun peaked out a little bit the amount of trout that you could see swarming around your feet it was just something I've never experienced before one of the other big lessons I've learned with trout it's hard to get a divide in the first place but man getting them in the net with conventional style gear is difficult they fight way different than past do they jump a little bit when they're constantly shaking their heads they have very soft tissue in their mouth and you need light gear so obviously a fly rod is the best choice to keep them pinned you like a four-weight fly rod and that thing is just a rubber band it's going to keep them hooked up but when you're using spinning gear you got to have a light rod it's got to be a light or an ultra light you know medium even a medium light is getting a little stiff for trout and you cannot set the hook you just got to lift up lean into them keep light pressure on them and let them do their thing let them dance around it's not like a bass where you're trying to sling them in to the net like you just need to let them do their thing and gently scoop them up it's a little green bug I'll show you it's a little green one oh my goodness look at that I know about as much about fly fishing flies as I do about the French language but I can tell you the bottom fly that I'm using it's a nymph it's an olive color and it is catching all the trout I put another fly on top of it about 10 inches up that's tiny I couldn't even tell you what that is called it's something my dad had please let me know in the comments what you think this is it looks like a piece of lint but this little nymph is doing pretty good and it's catching all the fish as far as my float goes this is a pretty unique little float you can fill it with water you know about halfway give it a lot of weight it's still buoyant so you can cast it really far I got it for fishing out west for some of the mountain lakes now this float is a little over weighted for the rig that I'm fishing but if I was fishing on the bank and I didn't have waiters this would be a good option to cast all the way out there into those little seams where I couldn't reach with a regular bomber this one looks pretty big need that net again sir is it like a hybrid looks like a brand got him got him oh that's a good one dad easy easy easy if you saw me oh my gosh that's gorgeous good job all right good there he goes hey good job dad is that your biggest brown ever yeah I think so yeah that put up a fight I'm good with ending on that one that was awesome me too man catch your PB nice PB rainbow PB brown pretty good to add on the river for a couple of crappie bass LFD post-game report do you feel like a winner I do you know we came down we didn't have all the information about this type of fishing no you drug me into this mess and I'm fully appreciative and hey we whacked him what kind of did yeah PB's PB's produced PB's on brown I mean obviously browns get huge yeah that was an amazing fight I caught a huge rainbow and you caught one more what I was yeah it was a nice rainbow it's probably two pounds don't see that every day hey one of those was I got out of that big trout's mouth yeah that was cool yeah that was that one right there yeah somebody broke off and then you said I got this yeah two-pound line yeah that you had two-pound line yeah see I had four but we were getting a lot of bites a lot of bites I was the only guy out there without a fly rod was that guy the bass guy okay but I had light light spinning gear and I had that pistol P rigged up I had a little gray fly which I don't even know what you call that thing it's like a little booger and then I had that little a little sinking moss colored fly and then they're whacking them I mean there was a guy that came over and asked me what I was using which I would have not expected put that put that little sinking fly on and put it right in that current with my little floater hey I was doing just the same thing as as the fly just not as beautiful just not you know the fly rod you got the indicator wasn't as beautiful as that but we were getting it done so thank you guys for joining me on the river today and I'll see you back