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@@jayhernandez5642 Not usually. I don't like trout. I once cooked a Golden Trout at Top Lake just so I could say I knew what they taste like....

@ wow excellent 8 day trek take care looking forward to watching you again.

@@jayhernandez5642 Thank you and thanks for watching the series. I'll have a new video up in a week or two!

@@chili1593 😅 Shepard Pass? Yeah, I imagine it's so steep that it would require annual maintenance after snow fall. The parks probably figure it's not worth it. Some of the passes like Crabtree and Old Army are just left sketchy. Some one died falling from Old Army a few years ago.

@ yes. And hats off for getting to those Colorado trout lakes. I wonder how they planted them?

@ Thanks! I'll send you an article all about it later.

Did you read the article in American Currents about this swap of trout? It was very interesting.

@ I did. It's the article I plan to send later. I don't necessarily want to post it here since I haven't named the lake.

Nice! I've heard that some of those lakes right at the pass have trout but haven't fished them either. It would certainly be an interesting place to explore.

😆😅 Oh no, not the Pica Union. 🤣 Yeah, the climb out was tough and... I was having another "off day" before we even started.... LOL. Day 8 is coming on Thanksgiving. 😀

@@highcountrychronicles Looking at you cope with that truly ugly ground, I realize that you would have no trouble at all with the two cross-country routes I've mentioned -- and, better, would find them lots more fun -- more absorbing, diverse, involving -- not nearly so much pure struggle. And, more to the point, there is (or anyways was) exceptional good fishing waiting at the end of each.

@@jimpowell6789 Thanks. I've definitely got them on the list!

Yeah, it really is worth it once you get down there. I think I need to go once last time and maybe stay 3 days.

😳😅 Thanks. Yeah, it's a bit of challenge. Slow does the trick.

@@Tenkara_Retiree Yeah, it's well worth it. I think I may have one more trip in me. 😅🤣

@@highcountrychronicles unfortunately my knees can’t take those kind of routes anymore. I’ll be 62 soon and starting to feel my age! 😂

@@Tenkara_Retiree I can relate. 😅

Foxtails Pines. Thanks! Yeah, that was probably the hottest day and the sun reflecting off all that granite doesn't help. 😅

@@highcountrychronicles and little to no shade available

@ Yep. Exactly!

@@JoeD.294. Yep. They really are beautiful. Thanks for watching!

Sounds nice. Yeah, I didn't want my gloves blowing off the rock or to forgot them. Good eye.

@@highcountrychronicles What I noticed -- what I recognized -- was how automatic the move is -- weight down anything that might blow away. All these tiny details of mountaineering technique that we deploy by ingrained habit, without thinking. It gives you away as somebody who's plenty at home in the wild. That was our first venture over Bond Pass. Coming down the other side, still near the top, I turned a tight corner where the trail rounds the end of a shoulder to confront a buck facing me five feet away, wide-eyed -- fully mature with the thick shaggy pelt on his chest and more points on his rack than I could count -- at least six or eight to the side -- before he pivoted and leapt off the side of the mountain, landed springy on all four legs 30 feet down the 80 degree slope, bounced off handily, landed again 20 feet further down and trotted off, disappearing into a stand of lodgepole. Deer style cross-country. I met with countless does and fawns in the Sierra, sometimes close enough to touch -- nearly stepped on a spotted fawn that was trying to hide under a bush while we were looking around near Spruce Creek above Relief Res. -- but bucks only rarely and never as close as that one on Bond Pass. Once while checking out the route of historicEmigrant Pass -- there are still wagon ruts visible on the lip of the bowl of Emigrant Basin -- we ran into a group of seven keeping their distance and drifting away -- the men's club. Up by themselves as high as they could get. Is it because they're hunted? Or smart? Or just stand-offish?

@ Is it a thing on all their tents? With these, I'm betting it's to save weight. A lot of their choices seem to be based on weight savings vs durability or utility.

@@zzww9483 Thanks! Next video drops Monday and the last day on Thanksgiving. I'll have to check that route out on a map and get back to you. 😁

HAHA. Next Monday AM. :D

@@highcountrychronicles Looking forward

@@jimpowell6789 Here you go! ruclips.net/video/GWH2ChG72tQ/видео.html

@@chili1593 Thanks! I guess there can be many challenges, the altitude, the distance, the lack of campsites/ difficulty in pitching tents. What do you find difficult?

@ the moonscape. I’m a tree hugger

@@chili1593 Gotcha!

@@highcountrychroniclesfound another book if you don’t have it. Nine Passes by Todd Bruce who retraces McDermands steps

@ Wow. Sounds cool. Also sounds like a good idea for a long summer backpacking trip. 😁 Thanks!

@@outsidewithmike LOL. Yeah, no burning here. I vaguely remember the bruise at Whitney. The mystery was that I didn't know where I got it because I hadn't taken a fall. I probably walked into something and didn't remember. The next day is my favorite fishing day but that yellow fish was maybe the best. I caught one on day 4 that had more girth though.

Thanks Ed! Glad you enjoyed it... even the shakey cam. 😅😂

Oh. About the solar, I may consider it for next year. I bought a solar battery pack a few years ago and it never charged. Kinda turned me off the tech.

@@highcountrychronicles given your extended trips, I can imagine solar will be a big benefit for you. Presuming it works 😉

Hi Bernard! Glad to hear that you are enjoying the videos! Keeping the winder doldrums at bay is how I used them too! I'm afraid the only places you can hear the full version of the song is here: ruclips.net/video/Fd119Bj6Ek0/видео.html And on day 4 as I'm enjoying lunch. In fact, day 5 has an alternate version at the end. 😉 He does have other songs published however and you can listen to them here: www.youtube.com/@BreakingShadows-N2 The Winds is not on my radar yet but someday. I'll let you know when. Your trip sounds perfect! Thanks for watching!

You sound like a man after my own heart, Bernard. A 21-day load is pretty out there -- 18 was our max, but we used resupplies to stretch our trips out to 44, 46, 50 days. You should check out the Sierra sometime. I bet you'd like it -- the Yosemite backcountry is calling you. Happy trails.

@@jimpowell6789 I carried 30 days of food once, and swore never again. My 21 days of food allow me up to 4 weeks hikes, thanks to weather days spent in my tent eating granola bars and eating a fish here and there. You're 100% correct, the Sierras have been calling me for a while, if nothing else, to catch goldens in their native lands. And the Sierras are closer than the Winds from my home on Vancouver island,. However, when it's time to hit the road in June, the Winds win every time for several reason: - Red tape and permits in the Sierras, vs none in the Winds, just my WY and Indian reservation licenses -Smaller fish and lower densities in the Sierras vs the Winds. It may just be my perception, but in the Winds I know where and when to go to catch 100 goldens a day from 10 to 18", or in another lake to stare at a couple dozen goldens from 20 to 26" during prespawn (I said stare at, as catching them is another story). -crowds in the Sierras vs literally seeing nobody for 2 weeks straight in some areas of the Winds. -local knowledge: I've fished +/- 100 lakes in the Winds, know in person all the biologists in charge of the different areas, have a friend on the reservation who is a packer and fisherman and know the roadless area better than me... vs I've yet to even see the Sierras. The solution might be one year to spend early summer in the Winds and the fall in the Sierras,.or go to the Sierras before the Winds as ice off in the Sierras seems to be at least a month earlier than in the Winds. Time will tell.

@@bernardmansey3019 I can't begin to imagine a 30-day load. 18 was getting to be a dire grunt. 16 was manageable, 14 was OK. Our loads figured in trout four nights a week but it almost never rains in the Sierra in the summer (except brief local thundershowers -- nothing like the deluges in the Rockies). Your picture of the Sierra as crowded and permit ridden is true only for people hiking short trips in easily accessible lower west slope "destination" areas. The true backcountry is not crowded. The longest trip most people ever take is a week -- three days in and three days out. Go in four days and you've left 95% behind. In the backcountry I've gone for as long as two weeks seeing no one. In trail-less zones, truly pristine, it's almost a given. In one favorite area we spent two stretches of nearly two weeks wandering around among several classic lakes and a vast meadow zone and encountered a pair of hikers exactly once -- passing through, doing the Sierra high route. They were as surprised to see us as we were to see them. Yosemite is permit ridden but the way into the Yosemite back-country is from outside, on the east, south or north, not from inside the park. Typically we targeted large tracts of pathless terrain -- one of 50 square miles, another of about 80, another upslope from a remote trail over an obscure pass -- a canyon headwall meadow like having Yosemite Valley to yourself -- not quite so big but fully as majestic and -- utterly untouched. Ansel Adams took photos there in the late 1920s -- easy to recognize what he shot and where from. Best high Sierra stream fishing we ever encountered. One year I did a 25-day solo trip. I saw one party, the whole time (except when I dropped down to a pack station to pick up my re-supply). Golden trout are in the southern Sierra, which apparently sees much more traffic (proximity to LA is a factor). My part of the Sierra is between Devil's Postpile and Sonora pass, mostly Matterhorn Canyon and north -- rainbow trout, also brooks and browns. Keepers are 12-16+ inches. Our biggest were 19 and 20 inches, and those only just once -- a magic day, after meeting a packer with our resupply 10 miles roundtrip from our base camp -- which included a bottle of Air France chablis -- perfect timing. Those fish knew their time had come. Prime time in the Sierra is from about 20 July thru the first week of September. The melt-out varies year to year depending on the snowpack, which varies widely, and the timing of the melt, which does, too, and the elevation. Three weeks after an area melts out the mosquitoes ease off -- before that, well, you asked for it. I've done lower elevation short trips in mild snowpack years as early as late June, and trips in early July when we just figured to brave the bugs, but generally, the choice time at 7500 feet and higher starts around the last 10 days of July. I like the zone from 7000 feet up to tree-line and just above (around 10,500 feet in that part of the range). The zones of rocky desolation such as in this latest trip of Jim's, attract me less. But, each to his own. The high Sierra is about 250 miles long and 40 wide above 6000 feet. You couldn't begin to know it all in five lifetimes. I spent above 300 days in my part. I savor really getting to know terrain intimately -- and yet, even in the parts I "know" best, there's far more I never got to. Speaking of Vancouver Island, are you acquainted with Robert Bringhurst's translations of Haida epic? Happy trails.

Thanks for the links Jim. I will try to memorize this tune to sing it on long hikes with heavy packs when I sometimes need a reminder of why I'm doing that to myself...

Nothing wrong indeed and that's what exploration is all about. Glad we did it and just because we didn't catch big fish, doesn't mean that they aren't there. 😄 Maybe next time. Thanks for watching!

Indeed! 🤣🤣😅

Did I say circumvent and not circumnavigate? LOL. I thought I corrected that in my editing. LOL. I do that a lot actually, especially if I'm tired. I may or may not have been called "Stumble Tongue" in a previous life. Thanks!

@@highcountrychronicles We always said "circumambulate," as the rarer, fancier word. "navigate" really means in a ship (Latin "Navis"). Of course this is all hyper punctilious. But so's fishing. The real question was, could you circumvent that bouldefield -- and obviously you could. But the one on the west shore of Upper Twin on the Yosemite North Border, prolly not. Given the looks of it, we didn't even try.

@ 😅 I really need to go back to Twin. Two such Great Lakes. I really didn't get a chance to explore the lower lake enough of the far shore of the upper lake. I should look into doing that as a proper 5 or 6 days with a stop at Emigrant on the way in. 2 days to get in. One to get out with 3 days at the lakes in between. Probably time well spent. Navis? 3rd declension? 😅

@@highcountrychronicles yes, 3rd declension. We didn't have much luck at Upper Twin but all the ten or so primo campsites down its northeast shore were infested with horseflies (it must have seen a BIG party recently) so we didn't hang out long. We fished (and camped) the little bump of a peninsula midway down the northwest shore of Lower Twin -- no fish but an utterly charming spot -- there were three of us, it could probably sleep one more in its tiny Japanese garden of bonsai hemlock . The outlet end is the stuff. The NW shore of Lower Twin is all boulderfield(the other shore is radically more impassable) but the cavalry cleared a horsetrail through it the length of the lake a few dozen yards back from the shore, if you can pick it up coming from the upper lake (don't bother trying to follow the trail down, it's mostly washed out, just stay north of the creek. Alternately, get to the lower end by staying high on the ridge above the boulderfield. There's also a crosscountry route from the northeast end of Huckleberry (a lake well worth your attention). It's easy to follow once you pick it up, steep but not messy) -- at least not messy when we did it, but steep terrain is extra-subject to erosion. (e-mail me for details). Bear Lake, SW of Haystack Peak, about 2.5 miles south of Lower Twin outlet as the crow flies is also great fishing but it's fairly complicated crosscountry route-finding and challenging terrain to get there. The other lakes west of Haystack Peak were zilch for fishing -- but Bear! Lots of firewood, too (hemlock, no less) to bake trout with. Bring foil, dill and a lemon. We visited Huckleberry six times -- a total favorite. My fisherman friends explored the length of the pathless northwest shore and the outlet end on both sides with minimal results. The inlet end is the place, the cove on the north side as well as the inlet itself, probably also upstream on the inlet.

@@jimpowell6789 Cool. You may recall that I came in from Black Bear (via Snow) and exited via Cherry Creek. I remember that bluff south of Huckleberry, not sure I'd want to do it without a real trail but I'll definitely check my older maps for a route. I did well fishing the inlet of the lower lake. Seemed like reasonable camping there if it wasn't buggy. Also did fairly well in the upper lake though I preferred the lower. I think you've seen this: ruclips.net/video/WHgP2VWoALY/видео.htmlsi=yf4bLVGwb3li5__l

@@rodoutdoors 🤣🤦🏾‍♂️ Well it does just say "shirtlessness" 🤣🤣 And it is a warning. 🤣🤣🤣 Not sure how effective a thumbnail would be for a bunch of 45 plus years old men. 😅😅🤦🏾‍♂️

@@highcountrychronicles Sorry, Jim, but we're gonna have to report you to the Committee For Decency Among Fishermen.

@ 🤣 Hence the parental advisory. 🤣🤣

@@highcountrychroniclesExcuse me Jim but I’m 35, don’t box me in 😂😂

@ 🤣

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! I think I probably explain it best here: ruclips.net/video/BqMsuoZZkcE/видео.htmlsi=AB92vsy_BvuBBTMe&t=599 I don't think it was short striking per say, which I interpret as fish tentatively striking or mouthing the fly and quickly turning, not wanting to commit. That did happen. In this case I think it was simply the fish following the fly in the same direction and not necessarily turning as they did so. I was fishing a really slow retrieve so subtle movements by the fish were harder to detect than if I were say, pulling the fly through the water a foot after each pause. Hope that makes sense. Thanks for the suggestion of bigger hook gap. I was fishing like a size 10 or 8 nymph. I huge fly for me. Certainly large enough. If fish can be caught on a size 20 fly, they can be caught on a size 8. I think it was more of a timing issue based on their actions and my responses. If a fish takes a fly and turns, then it's timing and not hook size that determines whether we get a good hook set. With a faster retrieve, we're actually pulling the fly towards the edge of the fish's mouth faster and if that fish is moving towards us, it's easier to detect. (IE Hook the fish in the mouth on the retrieve if it's not turning.) I see at as being an angler deficiency rather than a gear deficiency😅. I just need to be better. 😀 Thanks for the suggestion and thanks for watching!

@ thanks for the explanation and details about how you were retrieving your flies !

@@wildersville You're welcome! Thanks for the interest! Relative to how I normally fish, the flies I was fishing are huge!

Thank you! Glad you are enjoying it!

@@garyweglarz thanks! Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!

@@outsidewithmike Thanks!

@@caseyhansen4567 Thanks for watching!

@@jimpowell6789 Thank you!

@@jimpowell6789 Thanks! I'm guessing you might like this one as we go over the pass I mention: ruclips.net/video/5WMHP1BBsF8/видео.htmlsi=bDI3tQgOZjZ_zF-5 And yeah, I hate nets...😉

@@lucindalaree9265 You're welcome! Thanks for watching and have fun!

Hi Jim, thanks and welcome back. If you enjoyed the fishing on this day, you will enjoy Day 4. My waders weigh 16 oz. I'm not sure how much Roger's weigh. We used to carry the same waders but they are quite old now. My pack on this trip was ridiculously heavy. 50 pounds and there was no need for it really. I was just carrying more than I needed to for various reasons and I definitely felt it. Usually my pack weighs around 35lbs with food. I have a video on the complete load out. I'll find it for you and post it tomorrow.

Here's my typical load out. On this trip I had more than normal. Most notably I carried pounds and pounds of camera and battery gear... ruclips.net/video/19kS1sL_hqE/видео.htmlsi=ElWUdPovpnyKDMc_

@@highcountrychronicles I was thinking of the duck-hunting waders from my teens which must have weighed several pounds. Wader tech has come a long way.

@@highcountrychronicles Thanks for this. All very interesting. A 35 lbs load is great. Some comments: Gear will vary with purposes; ours were high duration (4-7 week) deep wilderness trips. We carried expedition packs, which put ALL the weight on your pelvis and make carrying a heavier load a lot easier (Dana Terraplane). My 14-day load with 2 liters of water weighed (once I had it dialed in) about 62 lbs. We were eating real trail foods -- of necessity on a real long trip (no peanut butter & jelly sandwiches!) and no bear canisters -- about 1.75 lbs/day ration. The first few days were.a little bit of a grunt but they always are. We carried a solid 2-man tent and cooking gear you could really cook with. A Coleman 442 Featherlite backpacking stove -- indestructible, unfailing. My triple-Pisces fisherman trail compadre used lures, his tackle was MUCH more stripped down than yours -- he wasn't nearly as involved with the ART of fishing as you are, but he absolutely killed Sierra trout and we ate them four nights a week on average. (I'm not so interested in watching you fish as in looking at the terrain around you -- not a complaint). We cut the weight of the REI first aid kit to less than half by assembling our own list of essentials in a quart-size heavy duty freezer baggy. We brought a 9-liter MSR canvas water bag for larger groups and if we were camping at a distance from a water source (on Pine Ridge summit in the Ventana, a third of a mile above the spring -- or to carry the delicious water of the spring on the east shore of Huckleberry back to our camp on the west side -- not that Huckleberry isn't delicious too! -- but for gourmet purposes) and a collapsible 1-gallon plastic water jug with a faucet, enabling dish-washing etc. away from the water (no soap for the fishies!). We carried 2 REI Nalgene 1-liter water bottles each -- you can drop one, full, on granite and not hurt it (indestructable gear is essential on LONG trips) and a top-flight Katadyne water-filter which hardly ever got used. (Your much more compact and, doubtless, lighter filter looks tempting.). Vasque Kincaid high top (10 inch) mountaineering boots, 4 pairs of heavy wool "trekking" socks, a wool Filson "Jac-Shirt," polypro long-johns, a North Face parka, a heavy wool sweater (Filson or Patagonia after wearing out a psychedelic purple hand-knit one some trekker brought back from Nepal to sell at Marmot Mountain Works (blessed be their name) or a North Face polar fleece. Filson whip-cord wool "Guide Pants". Basically one set of clothes, four layers. Topos to cover the terrain -- two to twelve, depending, two compasses, one on a lanyard, a headlamp (LED was a great advance), a wool watch-cap, sunglasses, a repair kit (duct tape, an essential, rolled onto a dowel). We also brought a constellation wheel and pages cut out of H.A. Rey,'s magnificent The Stars (pp. 29-60, 85-98, 133-136). Star-gazing was always a big pleasure. Three more utlra-light pamphlets helped, too: Russo & Olhausen, Pacific Coast Mammals [2.7 oz]. Laird R. Blackwell, Wildflowers of the Tahoe Sierra [5.2], Tom Watts, Pacific Coast Tree Finder [1.8]. Blackwell's flower guide works for the northern Sierra and his excellent photos enable easier identifications than other sources. Watch it with those falls. Once I slipped on (invisible) glacial polish on granite and landed on my ass, hard, but the mountain goddess was forgiving. That time. Big thanks for these videos. Happy trails always. Blow a kiss to Gaia for me up there.

@@jimpowell6789 They are Simms Travel Waders. No longer made but may be the lightest waders ever made. I haven't kept up with waders either. I bought two pair of these back in the day. 😉

Thanks! Yeah, usually they flush pretty quickly...

@@highcountrychronicles I believe those were what we used to call "Blue" grouse...now called Dusky grouse. I grew up in the Eastern Sierra and saw them all the time. Chuckar are far more skittish and would never let you get that close. Great channel!

@@szippwald thanks! Great information. I really didn't know. It didn't make sense to me that they were so "non-pulsed" to have us there. LOL.

🤣 I don't like the taste. 🤣🤣

@@mmfruitveg Thanks! Glad to hear it!

@@mmfruitveg 😅 No idea but it was cool and not on the map. LOL.

Enjoy! They are great reading!

Yep, ridiculous for sure but.... inline with the number of people we saw...🙃

LOL. Yep. LOL.

Hi and thank you! Yes, I remember the story and always presumed he just ran into very large rainbows or simply meant the lake had been planted with Coastal Rainbows as opposed to McCloud rainbows, since McCloud rainbows were probably the primary stocking fish. (And I think back then the Steelhead vs Trout distinction was basically one of size as opposed to origin or habit. ) We were using quite large scuds, probably size 8 or 10 or effectively that size since I tend to use hooks that are 2X long. They were orange. If you watch Day 4 you can see them in the mouths of the fish a bit better I think. Maybe Day 3 as well. You know, I don't fish chironomids much any more. I used to back in the day and I've had good successes with them, especially on my home waters (which I don't fish anymore) and in places with silty bottoms but more and more I'm fishing impressionistic patterns, damsels, callibaetis or caddis. I think caddis, especially cased caddis are under appreciated in our high sierra waters.

Here you go: ruclips.net/video/zwt0wVu9aLc/видео.htmlsi=FNzwNxIkmY8L7wzX&t=686 this is the nymph.

@@highcountrychronicles Thank You ! very useful info in this video !!! Nice catches.

Wow! Thank you! I've never gotten one of these before! Thanks again and you are very welcome!

@@highcountrychronicles just ordered 3 McDermand books. We hike the same trails. I love small creeks. Thanks for what you do and your scholarship as well.

@chili1593 Glad you could find them. They can be bit hard to find. I'm only familiar with the Water's of Golden Trout Country and Yosemite and Kings Canyon trout (which you'll love if you fish the Emigrant). What is the 3rd? (Or did you order an extra? I have two copies of each I think as backup. 😅) Thanks again for the Super and the kind words. 🙂

@@highcountrychroniclesI’m a sleuth of fishing bookstores. If you need any hints let me know. Fireside Angler in NY, Anglebooks in the UK, Abe and Biblio for searching out of print stuff. I first check with my local or Barnes & Noble as I like to support the independents

@@chili1593 Cool. Thanks! What was the 3rd book?

Sorry I don't. I likely say or show in the video and would have to re-watch. I won't have time this weekend. I rarely fish two dries however so if i'm fishing two flies it's likely a dry fly and midge in the surface. Typically on lakes I fish dries by themselves however and not dry dropper. I may have been fishing differently on the lake as I was on the stream. I'll watch it later in the week and see.

Not to worry, just curious how you approached the creek. Looks like you were pressed for time on this trip. Dry and midge makes sense. Thanks Jim.

@@edg4462 Hi, I just re-watched the video. I started fishing a caddis cripple dry fly on the lake on the surface. Then switched to a Soft Hackle Gold Ribbed Hares Ear and midge subsurface. On the creek I never said what I was fishing but when I got caught up on the tree I was able to see that one of the flies was an ant with some rubber legs. So it it would have been the cripple caddis with the ant tied 18 inches behind. Typically when I fish a dropper, its 18 inches to the bend of the point fly. Hope that helps! 🙂

@@highcountrychronicles I appreciate that Jim as I enjoy your style/approach in the backcountry and it has helped me as I learn the craft.

Thanks! Yeah, day 4 was a good one. Rested and really fun!😁

@@chili1593 Glad you are enjoying the videos. For my is actually the opposite. In my daily like I wear trifocals with no issues. It these older glasses and the fact that I don't have that mid range that I think is the problem. That and just age. Thanks!

@ I only have issues walking down stairs 😀 the tread distance seems to keep changing with my trifocals as I look down.

@ See. Now that you have that in my head, that's all I'm going to see. 🤣🤣😅

@@highcountrychronicles oh Lord no! But that’s what happens to me. Another friend hit his thumb instead of the nail with his hammer. I guess “your eyes are playing tricks on you” has a basis in reality. Step carefully we all enjoy your adventures too much to have you banged up!

Thanks! I will! Wait until you see days 7 and 8....😅

@@roddines8329 Thanks! Yeah, the upper lake is a bit smaller. Yes, naturally reproducing. I've never been here in the early season to see where. I would imagine run off from the inlet at the beach.

@@zzww9483 Yeah, certainly does! I had a blast!

@@wildersville haha. For sure, I'll give that super butter a shot. I was fishing the same line as the day prior. Cortland clear camo intermediate 5wt. Thanks for watching!

@@madeinusa5395 Thanks! Glad you liked it. Great tip!

@@mantismamba Thanks! Wait until you see Day 4. Those were some strong fighting fish!