The WORST State for Fly Fishing
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Hard to separate truth from parody…….because so much of this is both. Well played Ben. You never cease to entertain. Your videos are the only reason I get up on Monday😂
This is all facts
Spit my coffee out when you talked about fish so small you launch them into the bushes on a hookset!😂
ugh just experienced a twinge of guilt from a time I did this and launched the poor little guy into the bushes, never to be seen again. I looked!
Done this myself too many times
This is so true! But what’s even funnier is how miserable the front range is. No native bass in the front range, tiny trout in the front range, barely any creeks that are cool and deep and all the deep ones are far and few between. It sucks. It’s definitely the middle land of fishing.
You forgot the terrible waterway access law 😂
I remembered during my teenage years I could have a whole river to myself and even a lake. No weekend warriors. All I have are memories of empty rivers and lakes.
This is why I like to fish my home waters in Arkansas when the weather sucks. The trout still bite but the fair-weather fishermen stay home.
Living in Wyoming I can tell when someone is from Colorado. They have no problem fishing right on top of you. If you ask them if they are from Colorado, they get pissed. They don’t realize you don’t need to be like that outside of Colorado.
You should come down to Colorado and fish the Arkansas. Plenty of room for everyone and right after runoff it’s amazingly gorgeous!!
Haha right. I'm from Wyoming and live in Denver. So many of these morons have zero etiquette. I can't wait to get out of here.
Drop the mic
Thanks for this! Keeping my favorite spring creek fishing spots out so I have them all to myself
LMAO...lived in CO for years, couldn't have said it better myself!!🤣🤣. The only thing missing were the hundreds of weekend cyclist that think they own the winding roads so you can't pass so you're stuck driving 10mph turning a 2 hr trip into 4 hrs
OUTSTANDING parody. I thought Ben had moved, then realized it was Ben 😂. The only thing he forgot is how you need to use #22 or #24 sized nymphs without indicators to catch anything in those high-pressured waters of Colorado 😉
Thanks for trying to ease the stress these fish get on these waters. Maybe we’ll less people from out of state this year. I hope it works. This is huge.
shhh don't ruin the ploy! ;-)
Only suckers and whitefish in Montana. Should probably go to North Dakota.
I knew I wasn’t the only one. Great take Ben, keep it up.👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Montana is getting hammered. Over guided and over fished. Let it rest for a couple everyone !
Thanks. Fond memories triggered. My regional HQ used to be near Boulder, so I would stay the weekend and fish, and worked on a dude ranch one summer in Winter Park. I used to wore National Park summers between college. I am retired now, and maybe next year I will visit where I used to fish.
“This is where Landon Mayer learned how to fish reds” looool hilarious.
Lmao! One if my favorite videos of yours! 60 year native of CO and sadly this has become so true over the last 20 years or so, especially the last 10.
Chump house has gotten ridiculous!
Cheers
As a native Montanan who lives on the front range in Colorado, this hilariously vocalized everything that I feel from may-december every year. For those people that say stop telling people about montana, just get a clue. The “secret” ain’t a secret. Western mountain states are play grounds for the wealthy. Enjoy it now, it will be unrecognizable in a decade.
love watching your videos!! I retired a year ago and fly fished once or twice a month. After watching your videos and refreshing approach i'm fishing once or twice a week and enjoying the crap out of it. I have the Provo near by but only fish it in the winter when it isn't a shit show. . Lots of other great water around here. I respectfully request a beer handling video. Keep up the great work
Love the quick reference to the Animas @5:39, showing it when it was bright orange from a massive mine spill. Bingo. That mine spill source is still there waiting to do it again, too. Plus you have to put up with perhaps the most snooty, annoyingly hipster CO town in the state next to Crested Butte, Durango. And a LOT of whitewater kayak bros trying to kill themselves…
Haven't watched yet, Dear God, I hope it's my home state in GA. Hearing Ben bag on The Soque soothes my soul. 🤣
I remember fishing the GA mountains in the mid 80's. It was a paradise. My friends and I got to fish lots of private land simply by walking up to someone's door and asking permission. The state forests were quiet and had almost no pressure if you walked a few 100 yards away from the access areas. No cans of corn or power bait stream side. Today, it's a s*** show. Find a good spot and be prepared to be high holed and low holed. You can still do some decent blue lining if that's your thing.
Ran into some guys in a fly shop in MT dogging the Soque, I couldn't help but join them. I think we can all agree that place caters to the most annoying and obscene group of people.
Ben, you've absolutely outdone yourself today!!! Guess I'm one of those SOB's from the Colorado Front Range. Wish more folks would migrate to Bozeman!!!
No! Ben was the last guy we let in!
What if you fish the dream stream in the winter during the week? Is it still bad!!
Newb to fly fishing, been watching the fly fishermen for years while spinning. Bought my first fly rod yesterday at the Fly Fishing show way out on the plains near DIA (Kansas territory). Damn near died listening to your description of CO, pretty much right on. Hope to learn from you and your followers, keep it up!
When did you move to Montana? Also I forgot its nearly winter since there is no snow here in Utah yet.
Well as a Coloradan I feel attacked because that was just a bit to true. lol. But yes to carp fishing. I am horrible at it as they seem to be a bit more selective in some areas but I am getting there. Till then I am on the 8 mile hike train to the lakes when they are not frozen :(
I do enjoy fishing in the desert. The Gunnison River is a beautiful place, although it is getting a little crowded at times. Not in the winter though!!
Cracked me up! Keep the videos coming!
Where do I get the wire mesh waders to fish the South Platte in Denver?
I have lived in Colorado for 50 years and fished in Montana for 45 of those years!!
As always, great video. I loved your comment about Texans having no idea what they're doing. I lived in San Antonio for a while and fished the Guadalupe a few times. For those of you not familiar, It's a tail water with only stocked fish that's lined with homes. They paid off somebody to get it included on a list of 50 best trout streams in America. If you find yourself in the area, by all means go fishing, just don't put it on your bucket list.
I live in SA and this has always made me laugh! we definitely got some amazing river fishing but if it’s fly fishing you’re going for I’d go west towards Hunt tx or Medina river. Both are within 8 miles from another and you can get some nice clear walkable water. The west part of the Guadalupe is also where I tend to catch a lot more Guadalupe bass being the head waters and all
I'll stick to fishing the eastern slopes of Central Alberta. Where the roots run deep and the oil flows.
Do one about Utah. i'll help. The provo has the most hook scare faced fish in the world.
I don’t know, I’ve seen some pretty jacked up fish jaw on the San Juan…
Yeah, I’ll stick with the Driftless thanks. Not great fishing but at least there are less people
Driftless has amazing fishing if you like spring creeks
Hey Ben. Heard of Rangely? White River splits our town.
So, how did your application with the Colorado chamber of commerce turn out?
OMG. The Landon Mayer slam was a top-10 CZcams moment of all time. Genius.
Man! I thought I got you until the VERY end! Brown trout in the Poudre.
In fairness we just love having every fisherman from California, er… I mean Bozeman hitting the Henry’s Fork during run off.
Oh sweet, sweet holiday rant! ... and you're right, most of Colorado is in Kansas!
Put a Spotter above you on the bridge at the Outlet stores. Then have him direct you under the lights in Winter on where to drop Stimi w/ mysis dropper.
This is hilarious. I'm the worst fly fisherman ever, and my family used to rent a dilapidated cabin on the Upper Frying Pan River. We'd hike to the alpine lakes and even I could catch fish. Didn't fish the lower frying pan much, but even then there was a crowd just below the Rudi Reservoir dam that made it look like Bennet Springs, Arkansas on opening day. Sad to hear it is even more crowded. Love your videos!
Bennet Springs, Missouri?
@@Sparrowhawk187 Yup, don't know why my fingers typed Arkansas.😀
What do you think of the Grand Canyon as a hole ?
This might be my favorite one yet. "where Landon Meyer" learned to fish the reds". That was priceless!
I live in Colorado. What are some spots that I should fish as a beginner?
I recommend Boulder Creek, I've honestly never had a bad day there. And catching a 14 inch trout (I've caught exactly one fish that large on boulder Creek, they are usually about 8 inches average) in front of some cranked out homeless dudes making fun of me because they didn't know there were fish there was a lot of fun.
If you want some weekender beginner spots in the mountains, I'd say Fraser River is high on my list, and that area is beautiful and a really nice drive to Winter Park. Big Thompson is great, but make sure you figure out easy access points because you don't want to needlessly walk down steep loose rocks. Never do that
@@billr1805 thanks so much!
I was in a fly shop in Longmont and I tried to talk fishing and one of the guys said that the Poudre was his favorite river. I responded that the Mississippi was mine. I knew at that time that it was not going to work out 😂
What’s wrong with the Poudre? It’s convenient, easily accessible with tons of pull offs, and a hell of a lot let busy then the other more popular rivers. Not gonna catch a trophy, but I always have a fun catching fish on the Poudre
@@chawdawgz-lh1zd Nothing is wrong with it. It's just that after fishing the Mississippi River for 35 years. It's a a creek to me.
@@johnmiller5987 I misunderstood your comment, my bad. Gotta defend my home water! Happy fishing
The post COVID fly fishing in New England where I live was wonderful. Because people went back to their jobs and stopped fishing. Weeded out the casuals. I also love the Catskill mountains in NY. We catch some large browns with rat looking dry flies. I'm young and broke. But I want to eventually check out new Zealand
Loved the pic of all the people fishing elbow to elbow, put a couple kayaks floating down the middle and there’s Deckers.
Eastern Colorado or very West Kansas.. has some ponds and lakes, but being part of Kansas we get to let it flow down to Kansas proper.
See you on Middle Fork Rock Creek above Moose Lake Sometime All West Slope Cutthroats , Bull Trout ( Dolly Vardens , and whitefish
My first thought was "screw you." But then I remembered that I started fly fishing in Colorado in the 70s and had miles of the Colorado by myself. The White, holy crap the number of big fish we caught. The South Platte sucked because of all the poaching. It's actually a lot better now, if you're into that kind of thing. The backpacking into the Indian Peaks was incredible with lots of fish and nobody else to be seen. I moved to North Carolina when I was 40 and then had a job offer to move back to the front range. I turned it down because the saltwater fishing in Colorado sucks. Also, the smallmouth are small and so are the large mouth. Carp fishing in the South is incredible. The South Platte is actually pretty lame. When I lived in Colorado I had one fly rod, and now I have 22. Here you need a 3wt all the way to a 12 wt. Yes, even though my wife doesn't think so, I NEED 22 fly rods now. Okay, fly fishing in Colorado sucks now. However, you trout snob lesser fly fishers in Montana really need to learn what fly fishing is all about. Montana is super lame. During the run off all the Montana guides come here just to annoy us.
Salt fishing in Colorado 😂😂😂
Used to live outside Leadville ( towards mine) miss the backdrop.
Funny. Funny. Never having been to Colorado and it is still funny. Ben, I hope you fish in BC sometime and rip on us with our Brian Chan throat pumps
😂😂😂 this has to be the best rant I've ever heard.
Haha, love the Gunnison part, had to mention it, but conveniently left out the black canyon which is probably in a good 40% of your videos lol
So glad I fly fish for warm water species, I don’t have any of these problems.
Thought you lived in Colo. When did you move?
was looking for a little inspiration to hike to an alpine lake this fall. Found a sweet video of a guy crashing his drone into it in wilderness. He left the drone there and posted the video of him crashing the drone. You're not wrong about the influencers.
100% on point Ben!
Grand County,,,,,,,,Wyoming guy here. You forgot to mention how reasonably priced and down to earth Cutthroat Anglers are. Especially if you pull in with your Texas plated suburban
Western Slope of CO is epic fly fishing. Thank you for not telling anybody where to go.
Ben you are giving away our best secrets for Colorado 😂
I have found carp in the weirdest places in the frontrange!!!! But mostly in water.
You're sending everyone to the Yellowstone? What do you think will happen to that river when everyone follows your advice? Glad I live in Alaska. However, we still have too many people fishing the streams we can drive to, and it gets worse every year.
Been to Yellowstone many times, always serene. Maybe I'm not going to the popular holes I guess.
Sounds like a good bit of western nc fishing. God help us all when it really picks up. Tons of fish but about three times as many people on the bigger rivers not to mention tubers, rafters, and kayaks. Winter fishing here is best unless you’re willing to hike. As a guide it’s not bad I can put clients on fish while playing bumper race boats but for my own enjoyment I have to go to the much lesser known hometown family spots that no one ever takes the time to get to but has beautiful fish.
The fly fisherman “Karen’s” are gonna love this one. As someone who frequently hits the South Platte, this is hysterical. Well done. 🍺
I’m came here for their comments. 😂😂
It’s such a flex to end a video roasting trout spots state wide to shout out carp fishing! Ben’s the fucking best 🫡
Northern Colorado raised, and you are SPOT ON, no offense taken 😂
North Park area is great fishing though, you just gotta get with the locals for that choice water access, whether it be public access or private, some of the best spots I’ve fished up there are all backroad-public areas, just gotta know where to turn.
Shhhhh
I wish you would go steelhead fishing on salmon river in ny. Good fish some terrible characters, you would have a great video on it for sure.
In the public water its true combat fishing the likes few really know, it ain’t no joke.
I hear you've gotta tape phone books to your chest in case you get stabbed by a Russian while fishing there.
@@mikea9365 Absolutely dumbest thing I ever heard. Russians are not the threat, the real threat are the Ukrainian Bandero Nazi's flooding in....
You forgot about a few rivers in northern CO but I will keep them to myself…
"Rubber hatch", that's a new one for me! Hahaha!
This is your best video yet
Aside from dodging a few rookie kayakers on the Arizona, I did enjoy my walk and wade
This is the best video you've ever done.
You know Ben is legit when he is wearing Kinco gloves.
great video. thanks
Love the top secret Yellowstone jabs! 🤣
As a person from Colorado I can confirm that this is Colorado
Been planning a CO fishing trip since last summer 😵💫😮💨
Detecting........... sarcasm. From Scotland and thinking about not going fishing in Colorado.
Glad you're on our side ;-)
Preach on brother 🙏
Best Video Yet.
P.S I live in Colorado,
I enjoy catching 20” rainbows and then getting discount Abercrombie and Crocs at the outlet mall immediately afterwards.
You should if you haven't already try Washington state western rivers , westside has a lot in common with Colorado tiny fish, the eastside is better for river and streams but the choices are few. Washington has one blue ribbon trout river and that status is barely clinging on as the fishing gets hammered. One might be better off on warm still water fishing . I recommend it if you are looking for some comedy and reticule my state deserves it as they have mismanaged it completely. I must say there some places where some guys go that is a well kept secret but they are just a few holes in other wise there's nothing but disappointment .
Alpine lakes are going to be the new fly fishing paradise at some point, especially the really isolated ones. Tourists and guides aren't willing to drag their feet 6,000ft up a mountain for some peaceful fly fishing.
Sadly, guides put dudes and dudettes on a horse, charge 2 grand a day into alpine stillwater. It's horseshit.
@@RoryLynott touché. At least there would be less people than on the big rivers during peak season
Thank you for not hyping up the Gunnison
So far II’ve had a good fishing season so far shit I caught a 22 inch male rainbow in downtown Colorado last month
As a colorado resident, yes.
I love fishing in Colorado but most of these are a good point 😂 except he hasn't gone out to places where you have to hike 5-10 miles and get into the best fishing in Colorado but all in all a really funny video 😂
As a lifelong Wyomingite you forgot the most famous Colorado river,… the Miracle Mile!!.. we always know spring is in the air when the license plates turn green up here!!
My miracle mile is outside of Medicine Bow ! First time I fished there was in early 80’s.
Kansas!! Haha!! I knew you were going to say that!
Yes, as a guy who lives in SW Colorado (6 hours from Denver) make sure everybody knows that they should go to Montana…
We have ditch trout here in Iowa come get em before the eagles and red tails do 😅
Omg... That was the funniest video I've seen in some time. 😂...
Gotta stick to the western slope in Co
Hey Ben, as a Montanan watching your Colorado fishing videos, I've always found them entertaining. Are you seriously in Montana now? Driven out of 'Rado now you're going to bring hoards of bro fisherman here via these videos? Please don't Ben. I mean, you're welcome here, but we seriously need more youtube videos like... you know... Colorado does.
Boy. Really hating on Colorado there. But then, down here in Texas, we have the Dramalupe!
Old Wyoming G&F t-shirt..."Some states were made for carp. Our condolences to them. " Not talking about Montana.
I was going to say AZ but we have a great panfish and bass season. You have not lived until you caught a catfish on a fly.
This might just be my favorite one yet - and I think I've liked most of 'em. Every word here is gospel. Golden fishing gospel nuggets for everyone!