Thanks for watching everyone! To get the latest updates: ► Instagram: instagram.com/fishing_with_rod ► Facebook: facebook.com/fishingwithrod I had a lot of fun filming this episode! What a fun way to catch these trout! This is the setup: ruclips.net/video/eB6QIKGsedE/видео.html Make sure you check out Justin's website and get some flies if you don't tie like me, they work pretty well. 😉 www.flytyingforcescustomtiedflies.com
Confirmed! Rod is a genius, an expert fisherman, and a ladies man! My hero! I really enjoyed the cooking segment. That meal was prepared with care. I also never realized there are different varieties of rainbow trout.
lol... What I didn't mention in the video, and perhaps I should have, is that Erin is a chef who has worked in several restaurants in Vancouver. She already has a few new ideas for cooking up more fish later this year. 😊
That would be amazing. It looks like fishing paradise up there. I have a fishing trip booked in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska this August. Hopefully I’ll get some cool videos to share.
That should be good. I was invited up that way but I think we will wait a bit until international travelling becomes a little less complicated. Maybe next year. :)
Thanks Camille! I plan to do more this summer, will have a bit more free time then, plus Erin is all motivated now and would like to cook up a couple more recipes later this year. 😁
Your trout were bigger than the coho we are seeing off Sooke right now! We are breaking temperature records. Bet it was hot in Merritt !!!CHEERS! Cooler weather coming!
Love the content Rod! Ive been watching your channel and using your website since I was a kid (2010) and learned a large part of what I know about fishing from that. You've also been a huge inspiration for me to start my own channel. Keep up the great work!
I like how you are demonstrating different techniques so that non fly fishers can think of getting into this great fishery. I presume the method you were using is better in deeper water of more than approx 15 feet deep?
Thanks Ian! I find that a lot of people who are starting out get intimidated and assume that you need to fly fish to be good at it, but methods like this are totally fun and effective for anyone who doesn't fly fish. 😊 I have been told that it'd work in shallower (10ft) waters too, but I think my preference with this method is definitely for when we are fishing in pretty deep water. With the sliding weight and braided main line, I can place that fly precisely at the depth I want. For 15ft or shallower, I usually just set up a slip float rig for anyone who doesn't fly fish, just so they can whip the fly a little further away from the boat. My thinking is that disturbance in the boat would affect the fish near it in shallower spots.
@@FishingwithRod ok good to know. I just moved back down here from south east Yukon (Watson lake) and I'd fish fairly small northern pike with my 6 weight, and one of them ended up pressure cracking my rod and busting the drag in my reel and it was a fairly small fish I was surprised. so I was curious based of that as those look like fairly healthy sized trout.
I find that pike in general are just really rough on the gear. They thrash around so much, the takes are often explosive, they chew up lures, lines, crack rods like you said, etc, so gotta beef up a bit. For these trout, they can put on pretty spectacular runs, but overall they are just a lot easier to manage. With my 4wt, I had no problem landing pretty big fish, up to 5, 6lb or bigger. I stopped using it a couple seasons ago after realizing how much easier it is to present my cast with the 6wt when I'm fishing 20ft of leader. It's also easier on the fish too, shortens the play time and I'm sure that makes a difference on post-release survival.
Just finishing up here at the Cariboo region HWY 24...so hot and couldn't fish for too long. We hooked up on trout and pike minnow, the whole family had a great time and everyone caught something! You are an inspiration Rod to many who love this sport. I was wondering as an idea to have a fan fishing trip theme like a meet up where you pick a few fans get together and do a catch and cook?
Good to hear you had fun up there even though conditions were quite challenging! I think the last two weeks of May and first two weeks of June are the best times to be up there (for trout anyway) if you decide to visit the area again next year. Thanks! I haven't given much thought about including more fans in the videos simply because I find my time really limited between all the projects and family. I do want to take one or two kids who follow the videos out to film again in the near future though. :)
That was some take in the opening sequence! Next level content as usual. I'm wondering if you're planning an All About Fishing Chilliwack this year. I'm thinking about getting a table so I can raise a bit of money for camera gear and meet some fans in person.
Thanks Petr! I'm not sure when Chilliwack's All About Fishing will return, it really depends on how our friend COVID is doing. I'm also not sure when I am ready to put it on again because it was a lot of work to put it all together and when the last one got canceled in the last minute as COVID rolled into BC, it took a lot out of me. I also know it is an important event for the community, so it's not something I'll be giving up that easily. I'd say the earliest possible time for this to resume is next spring break. It's something that I'll have to talk to Tourism Chilliwack and other partners about over the winter.
@@FishingwithRod Yeah, must have been heart breaking to have that cancelled. It's been a bad year for so many people. Glad I had fishing to take my mind off it.
Yep! I use a VMC tungsten sliding weight about two feet above the fly. It slides on the main line down to the swivel, then I tie a 2ft long fluorocarbon leader to the fly.
@@FishingwithRod interesting. Never had thought to try it like that. I've ran fly bobbers with wolly buggers underneath, and have done well that way. That's usually how I rig up my boys' rigs when we go out. That way they can reel, or let it set, and there's minimal chances of them buggering it up either way.
Yeah the methods are pretty fool proof and great for kids or new comers. If we were fishing in shallower spots, like in 15ft or less, I most likely would have set up a slip float rig instead. The braided main line and sliding weight setup is preferred for deep water, for me anyway, is so I know precisely where my fly is suspended at. I want that depth to match where I am marking those fish at on the sounder.
Fantastic eh! I've always told people that these are the cleanest, healthiest and very tasty proteins you can get without having to pay big bucks for them.
Those are some thick trout you caught, really nice. I was up in the Cariboo region last week, and did ok till the weather really started to heat up. A lot of the trout there are long and extremely skinny, really odd looking. Caught a couple decent ones closer to the 2lb range that were I guess what you would call more "filled out" and proper looking. Do you know anything about that Rod? Is it some kind of mutant trout strain up there?
The Fraser Valley rainbow trout you see in this video are known to put on weight really fast. That's why they are usually used to restock winter-killed lakes to get the fishery started again. Those were not mutant trout you saw lol, they're simply underfed. We often see that among Pennask rainbow trout as they tend to grow long rather than fat (even that first fish in this video was slightly on the skinny side). These lakes often go in cycles, so conditions of fish may vary from year to year. They might by skinning this year, but they potentially can be fat next year.
@@FishingwithRod I thought something was really odd with them. Not all that we catch are like that, but quite a few. Guess that's what happens when you have a lake with a lot of smaller cookie cutter sized fish all competing for food. They seem to be eating more scuds than anything, doesn't look like there's any kind of bait fish in that particular lake.
Yeah definitely more fish in the lake isn't always better, and people should know that it is totally fine to harvest your limit at these lakes which would promote growth of the remaining fish.
These are all stocked lakes around Merritt. Simply go to www.gofishbc.com/Where-to-Fish.aspx and type in Merritt and a list of lakes including this one would pop up for you to choose from.
Great video! I'm full of questions. Were you trying to fly or roll cast with a slip indicator and 25 feet of line in the first fishing sequence? Can't be easy. Were you using all bead head midge patterns? Thanks!
Yep! So in that first segment, my leader was around 23 or 24ft long. The fly was a size 14 chironomid. It does have a tiny bead head on it but the weight is pretty insignificant. The indicator was set at just below the fly line. The roll cast wasn't that graceful lol, usually I'm just trying to get the line out. I wouldn't call this finesse fly casting/fishing, at least not when I'm doing it. While I can get the line shoot out and have it all lay out pretty nicely, every now and then the leader doesn't roll out and we just let it sink down. Because it's going to hang vertical down to the depth, it really doesn't matter if it rolls out with the fly line or not.
@@FishingwithRod That's the problem I imagine with a quick release strike indicator. The long leader is going to be difficult to cast but, like you said, all you have to do really is just get it out in front of you a short way. You're very innovative.
@@FishingwithRod Here's an idea: Put the peg into the strike indicator. slip the 25 foot mono leader through the peg hole on the strike indicator and put a brightly colored slip bobber stop knot above it at the depth you want to fish. That set up might be even more difficult to fly cast but it would be easy to just drop down below your rod tip. Or fish without any strike indicator with the fly rod. You'd be still fishing with a fly rod, or still-nymph fishing, if there is such a thing.
Hi Rod, great content as always. Im just wondering if u had any advice for someone starting out as a content creator. Avid viewer of your videos, avid fisherman, new as a RUclipsr. Learned a lot already in the past few months and videos I've put out. Learned lots from the FB fishing groups. Could pm me aswell. Thanks and keep the good vibes coming on your vids!
Thanks! I don't really have much advice, except to just keep making content if it is something you enjoy doing. If you're making content that you enjoy, the audience will find you eventually.
Thanks for watching everyone! To get the latest updates:
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I had a lot of fun filming this episode! What a fun way to catch these trout! This is the setup:
ruclips.net/video/eB6QIKGsedE/видео.html
Make sure you check out Justin's website and get some flies if you don't tie like me, they work pretty well. 😉
www.flytyingforcescustomtiedflies.com
Confirmed! Rod is a genius, an expert fisherman, and a ladies man! My hero! I really enjoyed the cooking segment. That meal was prepared with care. I also never realized there are different varieties of rainbow trout.
lol... What I didn't mention in the video, and perhaps I should have, is that Erin is a chef who has worked in several restaurants in Vancouver. She already has a few new ideas for cooking up more fish later this year. 😊
I'm so jealous hahah
Maybe it's not me, maybe it's being in BC. It just means you have to come here. 😂
That would be amazing. It looks like fishing paradise up there. I have a fishing trip booked in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska this August. Hopefully I’ll get some cool videos to share.
That should be good. I was invited up that way but I think we will wait a bit until international travelling becomes a little less complicated. Maybe next year. :)
What an amazing video to share with us how the trout fishing is up there..
Thank you Darren!
great video again! 15:15 thats whats every fisher wants!
Thanks! Every take from those fish was that aggressive, so awesome.
Beautiful friends!
Are we talking about the fish Volkan? 😉
@@FishingwithRod I had meant you and your old friend and your friendship :)
I know hehe. 😉
What an awesome video Rod! Beautiful fishing shots and I absolutely love your catch and cook videos!🎣🧑🍳
Thanks Camille! I plan to do more this summer, will have a bit more free time then, plus Erin is all motivated now and would like to cook up a couple more recipes later this year. 😁
Your trout were bigger than the coho we are seeing off Sooke right now! We are breaking temperature records. Bet it was hot in Merritt !!!CHEERS! Cooler weather coming!
Cooler weather better come soon! 😂 We are off to the WCVI next week and I don't want to be stuck in the boat offshore in this heat.
Great episode! beautiful fish and the filming of your friend cooking up dinner with the nice music was super relaxing! Thanks as always for sharing :)
Thanks for checking it out!
Great video and that dinner looked fantastic
Thank you 😋
Lundbom is an amazing lake. One of the best in BC. My grandpa caught what is believed to be the lake record out of there decades ago. 21lbs
*taking down notes*
1. How to fish
2. How to cook
3. How to talk to ladies
GOT IT!!! Thank you sensei!!!
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Do not use my approach for dating, it wouldn't get you very far. 😂
@@FishingwithRod At my rate, I'll take all the tips and chances I can get 🤣🤣🤣
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Love the content Rod! Ive been watching your channel and using your website since I was a kid (2010) and learned a large part of what I know about fishing from that. You've also been a huge inspiration for me to start my own channel. Keep up the great work!
Thank you! I am really happy to hear that! :)
Love the take!!!
Next year, I'll do this with those 8lbers you were getting. 😂
I like how you are demonstrating different techniques so that non fly fishers can think of getting into this great fishery. I presume the method you were using is better in deeper water of more than approx 15 feet deep?
Thanks Ian! I find that a lot of people who are starting out get intimidated and assume that you need to fly fish to be good at it, but methods like this are totally fun and effective for anyone who doesn't fly fish. 😊 I have been told that it'd work in shallower (10ft) waters too, but I think my preference with this method is definitely for when we are fishing in pretty deep water. With the sliding weight and braided main line, I can place that fly precisely at the depth I want. For 15ft or shallower, I usually just set up a slip float rig for anyone who doesn't fly fish, just so they can whip the fly a little further away from the boat. My thinking is that disturbance in the boat would affect the fish near it in shallower spots.
Hi rod what size rod and reel were you using for your fly rod setup? 8 weight?
That's a 6wt. 8wt would be too heavy. I used to run 4wts but while they are fun, it's much harder to cast. 5 or 6 are best IMO.
@@FishingwithRod ok good to know. I just moved back down here from south east Yukon (Watson lake) and I'd fish fairly small northern pike with my 6 weight, and one of them ended up pressure cracking my rod and busting the drag in my reel and it was a fairly small fish I was surprised. so I was curious based of that as those look like fairly healthy sized trout.
I find that pike in general are just really rough on the gear. They thrash around so much, the takes are often explosive, they chew up lures, lines, crack rods like you said, etc, so gotta beef up a bit. For these trout, they can put on pretty spectacular runs, but overall they are just a lot easier to manage. With my 4wt, I had no problem landing pretty big fish, up to 5, 6lb or bigger. I stopped using it a couple seasons ago after realizing how much easier it is to present my cast with the 6wt when I'm fishing 20ft of leader. It's also easier on the fish too, shortens the play time and I'm sure that makes a difference on post-release survival.
About 20 yrs. ago I caught a 6.5 lb. Rainbow at Marquart lk (using a small salt water flatfish (awesome fishing there & it's a tiny lake😊😊😊
Awesome! Majority of the rainbows in Marquart are in the 14 to 18 inch range but there are definitely much bigger fish in it. 🙂
Just finishing up here at the Cariboo region HWY 24...so hot and couldn't fish for too long. We hooked up on trout and pike minnow, the whole family had a great time and everyone caught something! You are an inspiration Rod to many who love this sport. I was wondering as an idea to have a fan fishing trip theme like a meet up where you pick a few fans get together and do a catch and cook?
Good to hear you had fun up there even though conditions were quite challenging! I think the last two weeks of May and first two weeks of June are the best times to be up there (for trout anyway) if you decide to visit the area again next year. Thanks! I haven't given much thought about including more fans in the videos simply because I find my time really limited between all the projects and family. I do want to take one or two kids who follow the videos out to film again in the near future though. :)
Rod=legend
Well, let's not get carried away. 😂
hey rod!just went to lundbom today and caught a 2 fish!
Great! How deep were you fishing and how big were the fish? :)
Nice recipe, great fishing ☝️
Thanks for watching!
That was some take in the opening sequence! Next level content as usual. I'm wondering if you're planning an All About Fishing Chilliwack this year. I'm thinking about getting a table so I can raise a bit of money for camera gear and meet some fans in person.
Thanks Petr! I'm not sure when Chilliwack's All About Fishing will return, it really depends on how our friend COVID is doing. I'm also not sure when I am ready to put it on again because it was a lot of work to put it all together and when the last one got canceled in the last minute as COVID rolled into BC, it took a lot out of me. I also know it is an important event for the community, so it's not something I'll be giving up that easily. I'd say the earliest possible time for this to resume is next spring break. It's something that I'll have to talk to Tourism Chilliwack and other partners about over the winter.
@@FishingwithRod Yeah, must have been heart breaking to have that cancelled. It's been a bad year for so many people. Glad I had fishing to take my mind off it.
Did you have any weight to drop the flies down like that?
Yep! I use a VMC tungsten sliding weight about two feet above the fly. It slides on the main line down to the swivel, then I tie a 2ft long fluorocarbon leader to the fly.
@@FishingwithRod interesting. Never had thought to try it like that. I've ran fly bobbers with wolly buggers underneath, and have done well that way. That's usually how I rig up my boys' rigs when we go out. That way they can reel, or let it set, and there's minimal chances of them buggering it up either way.
Oh yeah I was wondering if there was a weight. Cool method.
Yeah the methods are pretty fool proof and great for kids or new comers. If we were fishing in shallower spots, like in 15ft or less, I most likely would have set up a slip float rig instead. The braided main line and sliding weight setup is preferred for deep water, for me anyway, is so I know precisely where my fly is suspended at. I want that depth to match where I am marking those fish at on the sounder.
Joy your trout fishing....🎣🎣🎣
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That meat looks amazing, the color looks like a ocean salmon.
Fantastic eh! I've always told people that these are the cleanest, healthiest and very tasty proteins you can get without having to pay big bucks for them.
Great vid loved it! Nice miso recipe.
Is this Gwen lake?
Maybe? Maybe not?
Those are some thick trout you caught, really nice. I was up in the Cariboo region last week, and did ok till the weather really started to heat up. A lot of the trout there are long and extremely skinny, really odd looking. Caught a couple decent ones closer to the 2lb range that were I guess what you would call more "filled out" and proper looking. Do you know anything about that Rod? Is it some kind of mutant trout strain up there?
The Fraser Valley rainbow trout you see in this video are known to put on weight really fast. That's why they are usually used to restock winter-killed lakes to get the fishery started again. Those were not mutant trout you saw lol, they're simply underfed. We often see that among Pennask rainbow trout as they tend to grow long rather than fat (even that first fish in this video was slightly on the skinny side). These lakes often go in cycles, so conditions of fish may vary from year to year. They might by skinning this year, but they potentially can be fat next year.
@@FishingwithRod I thought something was really odd with them. Not all that we catch are like that, but quite a few. Guess that's what happens when you have a lake with a lot of smaller cookie cutter sized fish all competing for food. They seem to be eating more scuds than anything, doesn't look like there's any kind of bait fish in that particular lake.
Yeah definitely more fish in the lake isn't always better, and people should know that it is totally fine to harvest your limit at these lakes which would promote growth of the remaining fish.
I need to try that technique
It’s really effective and fun visually.
What is the boat your are using Rod? Is it a 1440 jon boat?
G3 1442! 😊
ruclips.net/video/ohPhiF2JjOs/видео.html
What lake is this?
These are all stocked lakes around Merritt. Simply go to www.gofishbc.com/Where-to-Fish.aspx and type in Merritt and a list of lakes including this one would pop up for you to choose from.
Great video! I'm full of questions. Were you trying to fly or roll cast with a slip indicator and 25 feet of line in the first fishing sequence? Can't be easy. Were you using all bead head midge patterns? Thanks!
Yep! So in that first segment, my leader was around 23 or 24ft long. The fly was a size 14 chironomid. It does have a tiny bead head on it but the weight is pretty insignificant. The indicator was set at just below the fly line. The roll cast wasn't that graceful lol, usually I'm just trying to get the line out. I wouldn't call this finesse fly casting/fishing, at least not when I'm doing it. While I can get the line shoot out and have it all lay out pretty nicely, every now and then the leader doesn't roll out and we just let it sink down. Because it's going to hang vertical down to the depth, it really doesn't matter if it rolls out with the fly line or not.
@@FishingwithRod That's the problem I imagine with a quick release strike indicator. The long leader is going to be difficult to cast but, like you said, all you have to do really is just get it out in front of you a short way. You're very innovative.
@@FishingwithRod Here's an idea: Put the peg into the strike indicator. slip the 25 foot mono leader through the peg hole on the strike indicator and put a brightly colored slip bobber stop knot above it at the depth you want to fish. That set up might be even more difficult to fly cast but it would be easy to just drop down below your rod tip. Or fish without any strike indicator with the fly rod. You'd be still fishing with a fly rod, or still-nymph fishing, if there is such a thing.
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Hi Rod, great content as always. Im just wondering if u had any advice for someone starting out as a content creator. Avid viewer of your videos, avid fisherman, new as a RUclipsr. Learned a lot already in the past few months and videos I've put out. Learned lots from the FB fishing groups. Could pm me aswell. Thanks and keep the good vibes coming on your vids!
Thanks! I don't really have much advice, except to just keep making content if it is something you enjoy doing. If you're making content that you enjoy, the audience will find you eventually.
@@FishingwithRod thanks rod! I'll take that advice. If u see my vids one day hopefully u can give me some feedback on my progress 🙏☺️✌️🎣
Tight lines!
why cover up the flavor with all that
All personal preference.
What shrimp
Scuds.
Jesus ama vóçés ele quer salvar voces
No thanks. 🙄