Catching Big Trout in a Challenging Mountain Lake! (Tenkara Fly Fishing)
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- čas přidán 15. 05. 2020
- In this video I head high into the mountains to fish my first mountain lake of the year. I catch some surprisingly large and beautiful cutthroat trout in this challenging spot!
DATE FILMED: May 2020
LOCATION: Idaho
GEAR USED
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** SEE MORE INFO ABOUT MY FLIES AND GEAR HERE: tenkaraaddict.com/gear/
** ROD: Dragontail/Nirvana 400
** LINE: 13-foot level line with 3 feet of tippet
** FLY: Waldo kebari (I'll be making fly tying videos soon, so be patient for more info about this one) and a stiff hackle (black) takayama kebari
** NET: Measure Net with rubberized medium net bag
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** My store: KamchatkaGear.com
Intro wind noise clip: "Wind, Realistic, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
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Another great video!!! I just love how it’s only about fishing and nothing else, no gimmicks, no messing around, just beautiful scenery and fish!!! Have a great day brotha!
Thanks Toddy!
At like 3:50 ish when you start wading out, "it's cold,and it stinks..." I loved it! Just really communicating your actual humanity. It was every bit as cool to me as watching somebody enjoying catching trout. Thanks man...
Amazing what you can stand...when you are catching fish. Definitely worth a like!
Outstanding as always! Thanks for enduring the cold water !! Beautiful trout, beautiful!
Thanks Michael!
Love it. Beautiful small lake with "no one around!" Don't freeze.
I love hearing the level line sing when you catch a good fish.
I really enjoy your videos! Really great!
What an awesome place! Beautiful fish!
Gorgeous fish man! I love the colors on those fish
Another awesome video well done some really nice fish
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Thank you for sharing another enjoyable outing TA. I go to my brothers in Couer d'Alene for a month every year (late Aug-Sept this year)and we camp and fish the "panhandle" specifically the upper Cd'A and St. Jo Rivers. He strictly fly fishes and I use a spinning reel with a four ft. rod and 4# test line ultralight with worms. I consistently catch 18-22" Cutts and he rarely catches anything over 16". I bought a 17.7' rod and this year I'm going to Keiryu fish with streamers and live bait. There's plenty of room to swing it around on those rivers and get some distance when needed. Those were some nice size fish you caught this week. That'll spoil ya!
Griff
I need to get up into the panhandle area. I've only briefly driven through that part of the state. Thanks Griff!
Excellent..brave man wading into the muck of unknown depth!!
Wow those were awesome fighters what a blast! Thank you for sharing.. definitely worth all the pain and agony for those !
Agreed! Thanks John
What an incredible spot!
Excellent vid. It will give me the confidence to step away from the stream and try the lake!
Go for it! I've had good luck tenkara fishing in lakes
I too practice CPR (Catch, Photo, Release) 😎I have only kept maybe a dozen fish in my 59 years. I was more of a bass fisher but occasionally hooked a brown or rainbow. Very good fighters. Great content. New sub!
That was an awesome change up. Nice fish!
Thanks, glad you liked it!
At 6 min. into your video that fish was gorgeous! What a challenge. The one 8 min. in what huge!
Yep, those were some surprisingly big and beautiful fish in that lake. Thanks Deanna!
It really is amazing how someone could be in ice cold water and not catch a fish and almost freeze to death but when the fish start biting the cold just seems to go away it used to be that way when I was a boy duck hunting,rain cold wind shivering but when those Ducks came over the top everything warmed up thanks for the great video.
Yep, catching fish definitely helps! Lol thanks Kevin.
I know of a lake...similar to this in CA. I fished when I was younger. The lake is full of CA Golden Trout. I wish I knew about Tenkara then when I was in shape. Great video.. i loved it.
Where is this lake full of Goldens? Headed up to the Sierras this weekend and I’m always looking for new spots.
I see the drawback of Tenkarara fishing; not being able to reel the fish in when using a line substantially longer than the rod.
Certainly not to discourage Tenkarara fishing!
Beautiful lake! Great video!
Thanks!
Doesn’t God make beautiful things, the colors on a cutthroat trout are phenomenal!
thanks for sharing the happiness bro!
Fish On!
Indeed! Thanks Richard
Wow, what a productive water. Really impressive
It is! Thanks Carlos
You have touched a chord here! Bilston Creek sends along her fond regards!! ~ k
Wow you're suffering for your art in this presentation. Love your work.
Thanks Allan!
What a beautiful place.
Love the channel. SUV RVing sent me.
Awesome vid!!
Thanks!
Now that is good fishing.
Good job! A far cry from those stream minnows. : )
Thanks Bert
Awesome video,I have a Nirvana400 on its way.
Itching to get out and hopefully break her in.
Wicked sick.
Thanks Doc 👍
Loving your videos good sized trout in this “loch” think it’s safe to say you’ll be back there but with waders the next time. Cheers.
Yep, waders definitely preferred!
I have watched some of these videos of yours lately. It seems like a great minimalist way to fly fish, just looks like a pain to land them at times.
Another fantastic video, Tristan! I do a lot of my tenkara fishing in alpine lakes, so it was great to see you in such a beautiful spot. I'm curious what you'd pack in if you were to wade that area. I've found that stuffing my waders in my daypack and clipping a pair of Off-Road Crocs to the outside as wading boots works great for most scenarios. Thanks for continuing to share your adventures. Fish On! ;)
I'd hike up in my lightweight wading shoes (SoftScience Terrafins) and roll up my hip waders and strap them to the outside of my backpack.
Beautiful fish!
Some of the Welsh lakes I fish have a problem with boggy edges, it can be very frustrating and possibly dangerous in places.
Yep, certainly not ideal conditions, but it worked out well enough in the end. Thanks!
Now that was so cool!!!!!!!👍☕️
Thanks Chris!
Now you know they are there and now you know to bring backpacking waders next time. lol.
Nice fishing! I've been watching for a little bit now. Wish the lakes in my part of Idaho were open they are still frozen here.. One of them still has a ton of snow around it.
Most of them are still snowy and inaccessible, but a few are starting to open up. What part of Idaho are you in?
@@TenkaraAddict I'm in South East Idaho. Soda Springs
Hi my friend! Nice videos, recently I bought a tenkara rod a dragontail hydra that going to be my first rod let see how its work here on Puerto Rico. But my question is where I found that net with the ruler?
I rarely go fishing and not go into the water. It's a must haha
I rarely do it when lake fishing, but I had to do it here!
J'aime beaucoup vos vidéos, je les regarde toutes les semaines. Je suis pêcheur français de Tenkara à Fréjus sur la côte d'azur. Bonne journée. Philippe
Would love to see a video of your full setups. What is in your kit. Rod, flies, net etc.
I list the gear I use on the "Gear" page of the Tenkara Addict website. Thanks for watching
That’s it, you convinced me. I’m getting a Tenkara rod. Should be a whole ton of fun. Going to also try on bass, bluegill and crappie. Thanks for opening up a new chapter of fishing for me!!! Check out my newest video. Gave river trout flyfishing a try. Very difficult LOL
Nice video, one day would like to fish a HML out West.
They're a lot of fun! I hope you get the chance to.
"Let's just wade out into the nastiness"...brave man
Gotta do what it takes to catch the fish!
Thanks!
Great video
Thanks!
@@TenkaraAddict still trying to get my first trout on a fly
oh, you are Tenkara user ! I'm in Japan !!
Very nice!
Awesome Video! I look forward to them on Saturdays! I just noticed you have the measure net on your Handy Pak. Are those available to buy anywhere or did you just switch it off your old net?
I bought the regular Handy Pak Net and then got the medium nylon Measure Net bag specifically for it.
Got me thinking about moving to Idaho!
There's great fishing here!
LOL! I got cold watching you. :)
I went out to a small lake at about 6,000 ft. in elevation yesterday and turned around. Too windy, cold for me.
I came down to 3800 ft. and fished a small brook instead.
You must be made of steel!
This lake is at about 7,600 feet 😄
@@TenkaraAddict OMG, I can't imagine fishing in that! You truly are built of very sturdy stuff. :)
Float tube might have worked there. TY for the video.
Could have worked, but I don't think it would have been worth it to haul 3 miles. Thanks for watching.
Great video, great fish! Monsters for a lake that small. Curious though, what elevation was this? Snow and cold water; I would definitively have wanted waders. Cheers my friend.
@wayouttatune2 Guess that explains the snow and the frigid water. :-)
It's at about 7,600 feet
@@TenkaraAddict And here's you shivering in waist deep water. No wonder.
I must admit, you inspire me with the flexibility and wonders of Tenkara. Makes me want to get out more.
How long of a line do you use? I’d use a 15 foot line and a minimum of 5 feet of tippet so you can get out further. When I Tenkara fish with a longer line, I will also handline the fish in if I can, even if it means pulling them across things like the floating islands
That info is always in the video description. I used a 13 foot line and 3 or 4 feet of tippet. But line length wasn't really an issue. I would have just put a longer line on if I'd needed to. And yeah, I didn't want to pull the fish across the floating islands. That was the main problem once I found open water that was close enough to shore.
Great video again. Curious as what time of day when you started catching the cuties
Maybe around noon?
@@TenkaraAddict Ok thanks, I have been using the killer bug, omg what a difference!
i was hoping to see you hit some still water tenkara ! are you still using killer kebari here?
Check the video description for info on the flies I use 👍
Fun video and fishing looks good. Not sure I get it, but you don't have Ariel {?}. Why ??
I'm looking for the Aventik IM12 NANO 9ft to 10ft on Amazon. I cannot find the one you had.
Incredibly nice fish - worth the wading, right? I've been wading a lot lately too, but I'm not getting snowed upon where I fish.
Yep, definitely worth it. Thanks Ian!
6:04 what a beautiful trout, the rosy cheeks a sweet! great video, tight lines!
Wonderful video and some lovely fish! But be mindful of hypothermia risks!
Yep, I was. Thanks for watching, Michael!
Whats a good cheap Tenkara rod if I wanted to give this a try?
www.amazon.com/DRAGONtail-Shadowfire-365-Tenkara-Fishing/dp/B079HDPL9Q
Request: show us your lure set-up, for those of us trying to learn this arcane art.
Just a fly on the end of tippet. Fly information is in the description. Thanks for watching.
My bad. Thanks for the description and for taking one for the team.
Man, I'd be cooking one of those up with bacon and beans on the side, right there by the lake, Yummmmmmmy!
Lame, put them back.
@@guntherwheeler_ some of us fish while backpacking and only take what we need. Nothing lame about it when you're still respecting nature.
@@619timbercali get a life
@@guntherwheeler_ sounds like I'm not the one in need of a life 😅 you don't need to be a hater, it's bad for your health and its free.
@@guntherwheeler_ I catch fish to EAT fish…..that’s why people started fishing hundreds of years ago, dufus.
bro.. sorry for asking... but why does one always loose the fish? because the hooks are barbless.
Also tenkara for hard fishing fish?
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking. Yes, I use barbless hooks, and yes, fish can get off because of that. No big deal. There are tenkara rods out there that are suitable for very large and hard-fighting fish.
Some waders might be a good investment
Lol I have waders, but I didn't think I'd need them
@@TenkaraAddict Nice video, keep it up. I that above Bishop?
Should have brought your packraft. Stillwater is my favorite.
The packraft is inoperable at the moment!
Dude,you should have use a long telescopic handled net.
I've fished some lakes at about 9,000 feet and had a blast with my Iwana. There are some nice fish in these high-altitude honey holes! Great Vid!
Oh, yeah, also what subspecies? Looks like Yellowstones, they are very pretty.
Yes, they were Yellowstone cutthroats.
what sort of spinning rod to you carry with you?
Daiwa Minispin
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@@TenkaraAddict 😆
Was wondering why you weren't reeling these fish in until I noticed you don't have a reel on your pole.
Are these stocked trout or wild?
Most cutthroat are wild in the high mountain stuff. That doesnt necessarily hold true in all places but typical rule of thumb is that cutthroat in the high mountains are wild
What is the name of the net you used in this video?
A Handy Pak Net with a medium nylon Measure Net bag on it.
Listened with headphones. Don't you love it when the tension on the line of a big fish makes the line sing like a bowed violin string as it's pulled through the water?
I do! I always smile when I hear that while editing the video too. Thanks Brian.
The tug is the drug
What type of pole are you using?
A tenkara rod. The exact one is listed in the video description.
I was wondering how you are detecting strikes?
I watch the end of the line for any unexpected movement
@@TenkaraAddict I do much the same but I am usually moving my fly slowly through the water so I can feel the taps as well, sometimes ;)
Packraft!
Do u not have a real?
What type of hook snd size?
There is no reel in this type of fishing (tenkara). Fly information is in the video description and on my website. Thanks for watching.
You are truly dedicated. Or mad. Or both.
That lake looks like you should be punching the weed mats to catch bass.
You must have frozen your nads off wet wading in water that cold! Add snow showers and wind to boot...brrrrrr 🥶 Do you have light weight stocking foot waders? Also, there’s a road...why a 3 mile hike in?
The road is only for sub-50-inch vehicles (i.e., ATVs, etc.). Regular vehicles aren't allowed, and I don't have an ATV, etc. And yes, my hands were cold. I have stocking foot hip waders but didn't think I'd need them. I rarely do for ponds/lakes.
Tenkara Addict Gottcha. Really enjoy your Saturday AM vids. 👍
just found your channel. do you always prefer level line to a furled line?
Yes. I know a lot of people feel that furled lines cast better, but I like the feel of level lines more. And furled lines are a huge pain in the butt when they get stuck in a tree. Level lines are much easier to free and get less tangled up in the foliage.
Beautiful fish and lake. It looked like you had the place to yourself. What's the longest level line you have fished. I've heard people going up to 20' but haven't tried it yet myself.
13 feet is the longest level line I've fished
Do you ever eat any of those fish?
No
You just need to bring waders next time and you won't have to fear the muck.
Lol obviously yes, that would have solved the problem, but I've never needed them for lake fishing, so I didn't bring them. Thanks Michael!
Where at in idaho?
Sorry, I don't give out names or locations
Are you the SUVrv guy?
Lol yep!
Beautiful setting, nice fish. So what lake and where?
I don't share water names or locations. Thanks for watching
Where where where??!! I live in Utah and I’m dying to fish these same places with my Tenkara!
This is in Idaho. Sorry, I don't share spot names or locations
Don't tell me you bought fish from the store on the way home for dinner
I did not
I live in Idaho and I love exploring please leave your coordinates.
Nope, sorry
Don't fall in dead meat if u can't get out
Lol yep!
Is all you do is catch fish and release do you ever catch and eat them!!!
I don't eat them, no
Technically, you were catching. Not fishing. I go fishing.