Fly Fishing for MY BIGGEST BROOK TROUT EVER!! (New PB)
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- NEW PERSONAL BEST NATIVE BROOK TROUT!!
The story of my biggest native Appalachian brook trout starts out relatively unassumingly. I got a late start to my day and ended up deciding to try a new stretch of water. I didn’t even get to my intended fishing destination until noon and… only partially prepared… I started the descent down into the West Virginia Backcountry.
I ended up catching the biggest native brook trout of my life at just a tad under 14 inches. It's a fish I won't soon forget and I probably won't out do for a while.
Over the years some of my most popular videos have been about brook trout, and videos like the Goliath series have been some of the most talked about videos on my channel. I’ve gotten more questions about Goliath then I have some of my 24 inch brown trout. Goliath stands as more of a symbol of what big brook trout are to me: I know they exist, I see them occasionally, but catching them seems nearly impossible. And because they’re migratory in nature they usually disappear from my life as quickly as they came into it. This fish however, was one of the luckiest catches of my life. As much as I purposefully hunt for big trout from time to time, I’ve found that nearly always my biggest fish come when I least expect it. But that’s why I love it, the unpredictability of fishing keeps me on my toes and keeps my mind from wondering. You just never know what the next cast might hold.
Thanks for watching!
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I’m 77 and have caught a bazillion brookies, and I have to say…that is the most gorgeous native brook trout I have ever seen. The size, the coloring, everything about that fish is why we fish for them. Truly a beauty; congrats on bringing him to hand. 👍
Thank you so much!!
I'm from Ontario, Canada, and have caught about 5 beautiful male trout up to, but never over 15 in, and soawner males are probably amongst nature's prettiest fresh water fish!
Wowzers what a brace they were, the last one especially, the colours were unbelievable
That is a beautiful fish, and a giant for a small creek. This one lake I fish in Ontario the smallest ones are 14-16 inches, 1-1.5lbs and they get up to 6lbs, wild fish, however, that is a totally different fishery. For a southern creek that one is nice!
Native gang
Outstanding! "Always expect every cast to be a big fish", My Dad.
Thanks Larry!!
Hey man I'm around your neck of the woods and am just blown away at the size of that native man! Great job and absolutely love these videos!
Thank you man!!! Glad you're enjoying the videos
Congrats on those brookies. The colors on the second one......I'm speechless. I am without speech. Awesome brookie fishing adventure.
Same type of behavior for the trout up in northern VT and New England. Seems the altitude and the weather follows the Appalachians north into the Adirondacks, Green Mountains and White Mountains. Something to keep in mind. Tannin colored water, shale and so on different but the trout seem to behave the same. That square tail is epic for that stream. My biggest is 10in or so. Monsters for the beaver dams and streams I fish.
Gorgeous fish and great filming thanks
Congrats man, those are some northern Maine looking brookies. Awesome to see a fish of that caliber in small water.
Beautiful brookies. I'm having a fiberglass replica made of a 16 inch I caught in Wisconsin on a small river. Mine was in the spring. According to the warden it was the biggest one caught on that opening day in Wisconsin.
That was amazing! Congratulations! I'm happy for you and I know how much you appreciate the beautiful fish that you landed. That is why we fish.
No doubt! Thanks for watching
I love the brook trout.Colours Amazing a truly beautiful creature.
Caught an 19 inch brook trout in the Adirondacks in a brook that was no more than two foot wide. It was right under a tiny waterfall that had some white water. The water was about two feet deep and it had to be the only trout in there. We also fish beaver ponds in the mountains of Upstate New York, brookies love them.
Best i ever did was a 17 inch brookie. In the most random spot. I k ew instamtly ill never catch a bigger one. But who knows.
And this is my first year fishing.
You gotta come to Canada and fish lake nipigon and nipigon river, 5 plus pound brook trout are very easy to come by, got my biggest ever this spring 27 inches 8 pounds
Congratulations on those amazing fish! And even though you forgot your main camera gear, you still got some stunning shots! What a great adventure you shared - many thanks!
Thank you! The iPhone does decent in a pinch. Thanks for watching
That really is the native brookie of a lifetime! Congrats!! Unreal colors on that fish. That's the kind of native that keeps me chasing them.
Thank you so much!!
Awesome video! Nothing like catching native fish in the Appalachians
Holy crap that was THE MOST beautiful fish ive ever seen. This was a great video to watch in the morning lol. Great vid as always 🙂
I used to work for the forest service and the biggest brookie we ever got was a 16.5 inch monster. It had a hook jaw and a hump back like a salmon. It was a true monster for West Virginia.
I’ve caught some really nice brook trout in PA but nothing to that level. They are apparently out there, just tough to find. Two incredible fish!
The average Joe will never comprehend or appreciate what a big deal this was. Beautiful! Congrats and thanks for sharing!
Yep! One look through the comments and you can find people saying it's not a big deal. Thanks for watching!
..it's honestly not that big.. if it was double that size I would be slightly impressed
What a couple beautiful, native wild brookie bucks! Native fish are the best fish no matter the size. I appreciate how carefully you handle them too. Nice.
Those are beautiful fish. I love native brookies.
Wow, Just an amazing beast of a Brookie
Nice bro love you're channel 🤠
Congrats John! Beautiful brookie! Maybe you should more often let the fish bite your fingers ;-) Brings luck
Hahaha!! I guess so! Thanks for watching
Beautiful!
I got a couple in Washington this year close to 20 inch.
Thats a super pretty fish. My uncle actually caught a 22in Brook trout on a peice of bread while fishing for baitfish in big island Virginia.
Dude! PROPS on that TANK man!😲👍 Just curious, did you get a measurement on that bad boy?🤔 Great vid, love the scenery (FREAKIN GORGEOUS), and as always plz keep em comin bro. Peace ✌😎
Yep it was 14 inches! I forgot to put that in the video LOL
That is a monster native Appalachian brookie. I bet no more than one in 10 or 20 thousand get that big.
Good morning my friend fishing 🎣
Good panorama fishing greetings 👍👍
Yes the video I’ve been waiting for
I'm 65 and have caught some big brooks, but yet to catch one that big !! What a treasure to find..
That fish was perfect, love the bright spawning colors. Congrats on the PB!
Wow, that is a huge native brookie, and the colors are amazing! We have brook trout here in Idaho, just not native ones. Never seen one with that much color here.
Seriously, seriously, seriously 😂😂😂 monster native!
"you just never know what that next cast might hold." amen
If there's one there's more! Stream Fisher from the AZ apache lands
amazing video, would like too see you handle brookies less because of how delicate they are, but over 20000% percent better than any youtuber out there! GGS! AMAZING CATCH!
Your channel is pretty decent and you're trying really hard. Save up some money and book a trip to Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada and your perspective on brook trout fishing will be completely changed. Make sure you bring a 6wt or 7wt rod and instead of talking about inches you'll be talking about pounds. I'm not trying to diminish your effort or enthusiasm, just trying to point you in the direction of a life changing experience.
Here in Michigan we have brookies that travel out into the big lakes called coasters, once caught one that weighed nearly 5 pounds, 20.45”
Were you guys fishing Cohutta WMA when you filmed North Ga Or Blue Ridge
that's a pretty fish. if you wanna catch monster brookies you gotta fish the nipigon river.
Seriously... You have got to book a trip to ALASKA.. Just saying..
Had an experience of biggest brook troute I seen in my life fishing with my kid behind my house. It got away but seeing was like holy smokes. Got some little guys today.
Thats seriously a nice trout, good fish
You need to head up to Ontario some day for brookies. Get one of those fish camps to sponsor you. Or Newfoundland.... 5-8 pounders
Amazing colors, only fish as pretty is mahi mahi and the way the y turn green gold blue white .great video.
Native brook trout are almost black and have yellow and orange spots and there stomach are orange the meat is pink and the flavor is incredible these trout are not stocked trout.😋
As a creator im trying to find music to use but do you get the rights to yours cause if I don't I limit it under 10 seconds how do you have yours for so long?
I pay for am epidemic sound subscription
Hermosas imágenes.
Good job.
Regards from Madrid. España
just caught my pb was a 13 incher the spot we go averages around 7 inches so to pull that was nothing more then a happy surprise
Just wondering what set up? Are you using nude flyfish to slow curious?
Why are you using barbed flies when your returning them 🐟🎣🤔
When going through wooded area it is safer to carry the rod point behind you to prevent breaking the rod point and ruining your day.
Happy for you, grew up fishing the streams and back country in West Virginia, really enjoy the videos
So beautiful and I’m just a jealous as that fish is pretty❤❤
Cracking fish. Looks very similar to the native browns I catch on the small Scottish streams I fish (we call them burn trout). Largest I've caught is a 3/4lb. Perhaps around 12 inches long.. beautiful colours...
I've never gone fly fishing before. I've only caught stock trout with cheese balls and worms and occasional roostertail. I've been pretty successful at catching smallmouth bass in Creeks while wading,. I tried to convince myself I was not interested in fly fishing and let fly fishermen were all crazy, and there's two types of fisherman, the fly fishermen and then the baitcast fisherman and we're not supposed to get along. Though lately I'm contemplating learning how to fly fish and came across your video and I'm impressed. Just want to let you know that I really enjoyed your video and your personal best Brook trout catch
Thank you so much!! And there's no reason fly fisherman and bait fisherman can't get along. I've done it all and I don't judge anyone based on what they throw. I personally find fly fishing more fun at this point in my fishing career because I like the challenge and I have time to mess around with it. you should definitely give it a shot!
I am tying a finger fly as we speak. The next big thing.
Seriously, seriously, lol! I knew it had to be something special when you just couldn't help yourself and rambling, lol! Great video!
I share your love for the brookies. The good Lord sure knew what he was doing putting that combination of colors into the clean,cold water of a mountain stream. Your big guy was a wonderful example .....for eastern USA. You do need to take a trip Quebec and do something about that PB. There are places where you'll think you're already in heaven. No one talks inches only pounds. 🤗
I know… going up that way is for sure on the bucket list. But I’d still keep my southern Appalachian PB separate! Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the video!
Beautiful fish and fantastic atmosphere. I do love small streams
I think it’s very interesting that all these guys on RUclips claiming they’ve caught a huge fish… really…?
Nipigon river is where “big”brookies reside… just sayin…..
You have to adjust your expectations based on where you're fishing. If you go by your logic then nobody without excessive amounts of money and/or ability to travel you will ever catch huge fish. You'd have to go to Canada for brook trout, New Zealand for brown trout, etc. Most people learn to have expectations based on the size of water and region they're fishing.
Nice fish! I fish a little for natives here in north east PA and haven’t seen one that big. As a side note the rich guy hunting and fishing club near me has a hatchery. They donate fish that get stocked in a bass pond near here for the kids fishing contest. My son caught a 18 1/2 and his friend caught a 20” brook trout. Hatchery fish just aren’t the same.
I caught a wild 16" brown out of a steam that size years ago doing the same thing. Fishing below big falls. Unbelievable fish on a 2wt
Some of those smaller fish looked like they were colored up like rainbows. That big boy was a beautiful fish. Seriously.
Does anyone know what reel he’s using?!
What size and weight rod did you use to catch that?
That wasn't the biggest brook trout i've seen by about 5 pounds, but it was a really pretty one. Keep 'em coming!
As a Mainer the brookie has always been my fish of choice. I'd rather catch that fish in that setting than a 20" rainbow in a western river. I wonder how long it takes for a fish to reach that size in a small stream that small.
I love wild gamefish...... spooky as a blind horse and as colorful as a neon beer sign in the rain..
Great video
What's the point of fishing if you don't eat it?
Nice fish. He’s been eating those little
Ones
What a fabulous fish! Colour-wise, it reminded me of the char found in Scottish lochs, so much so that I looked them up to understand the difference. I then learned that some people call brook trout, brook char. Whatever, yours was a proper native fish. Beautiful.
Hell of some natives, congrats man!
As a West Virginian, we sure do have some beautiful brookies. Congrats on the catch! Some crazy trout up there in the national forests and whatnot.
That fish was sick! It's nice to see conservation efforts paying off. You might run in to that 20in native brookie before your buddy does!
What were ya throwing? Quite the beauty!
A brook trout big enough to fillet? Unheard of, until now that is. Nice catch and nice release
What can I add? If you ever have an open spot for someone to tag along, I’m in Maryland?
WOW!!! Amazing brookie!!! Looks like one of those aurora brookies!
Need to fish Arkansas.....state record brookie is 5 pounds.....record brown trout is 40 pounds...Red river....yup
Not native so it’s not very special
@@TheTroutWarrior oh....now I understand
Those last two are sure eating good.
What a beautiful fish. Very nicely done. I caught my largest brook trout this week, under a waterfall too. Thanks. 😊
Not bad for how small of a stream you're fishing ! Beautiful colors 😍 👌
What a beautiful place you fished!
the most beautiful colours on a brookie I have ever seen. Gift of God.
Saweeet
It’s no exaggeration to say this large Brooke is mountable fish.
They rarely come this size And it’s a trophy fish.
Generally I have 20 in rule for getting a fish mounted.
Beauty fish .
Jon, that was an amazing brookie and so beautiful. I loved my time fishing for brookies in WV. Haven't been there in 35 years but yearning to go back.
That is one real pretty trout in its beautiful spawning colours!
That was an awesome video thanks
That's a crazy size brook trout from a small stream!
Hell yea, great fish! A moment you won't forget.
Goliath!! Good job nice fish love me some stretch of creek
Seriously....Seriously...Seriously
What a beauty of a brooky!!! A huge specimen that is pure bliss to gaze. Congratulations!