Catching Surprise Fish in a Unique Mountain Creek! (Tenkara Fly Fishing)
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- Опубликовано: 15 янв 2025
- In this video I head to an iconic western state that I haven't fished in years and am surprised by what I find in the creek!
DATE FILMED: October 2024
LOCATION: Oregon
GEAR USED
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** ROD: Tanuki Pocket Ninja (335 cm)
** LINES: 11-foot level line (#3.5) with a few feet of tippet
** FLY: Size 12 orange thread kebari
** NET: Medium Measure Net with rubberized net bag
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Five trout in a couple of hours is usually a good day for me!
Another enjoyable tenkara vid. Thanks!
What a beautiful little stream. I my younger days I would walk streams with my fly rod. I can't do that for very long. I get tired and sometimes short of breath. But I still like to fish. so give me a beautiful lake to sit at and fish I am happy.
All good Tristan, a bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work 👍
Agreed!
I've been watching your channel for years because you like to fish similar waters that I like to fish, small pocket water streams. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when one of my favorite home streams popped up in your video. That is the first stream I ever fished in Oregon.
Oh, cool! It's a neat little stream and was a lot of fun to fish!
That's a perfect creek for the Dragontail Foxfire! My favorite rod for tight quarters fishing! I love fishing these little overlooked creeks thanks to your videos! A 10" wild trout on mini tenkara gear is more of a trophy to me than a 20" fish caught on western style gear on big water! Thanks again for what you do!
The FoxFire is a great little rod! Thanks for watching 😁
I know exactly how you feel. I am grateful for any time that I get to spend working up and down creeks and rivers. Just being out is the purpose... catching fish is a reward. But I do get excited for a particular river when I have spent time and energy on Google maps, and planning on how to get there, etc. There was one day I spent 8 hours on the river and caught 70 fish! Another time, I spent 6 hours catching nothing until the last 30 minutes where I caught 10. Yesterday, I spent 5 hours with only 4 fish... but two of them were 22", so that was a huge reward.
I'll still take an 8 hour day on the river not catching anything, to a day spent at work.
By my count this is the third video featuring the Tanuki Pocket Ninja. Thanks for sharing it!
Thanks for the count, John!
Beautiful scenery, a gorgeous rocky stream, nice weather, and multiple brown trout. Could be a whole lot worse than that. Much to be thankful for. Thanks for sharing your experience Tristan!
Thanks as always for watching, Gary!
Hey not sure if you noticed but right after the 14 min mark in the video their appears to be a shadow of a spooked fish swimming down stream right in front of your legs not more then 5-10 seconds after you were saying you needed to catch one more fish and you were giving yourself a little self motivation speech about persistence, perseverance, and dogged determination 🤣Absolutely perfect comedic timing right there! That gave me a good solid laugh on this cold rainy Montana morning. Another great video and real world rod review, Thanks!
Good eyes - I agree that looked like a trout
I'm happy I can be some comic relief 😄
16:53 you are clearly on the LOG about it ;)
Beautiful creek, interesting geology---the rib of stone reminded me of a fish trap?
I could see that! Thanks for watching.
So beautiful wish I could live by a creek like that ❤
Thanks for another great video! As a novice Tenkara angler, I appreciate how you point out potential areas in the creeks as you are casting. As I watch, I try to anticipate spots that you' eventually choose to cast to! I also appreciate your reviews of various rods as I learn the sport.
That's great to hear! I'm glad it's useful 👍
streams like that running over bare rock can be unfertile depending on the type of rock, both in terms of fish and fish food. Maybe that was the problem.
Very good point!
Beautiful stream.
Sure is!
That certainly was some skinny water, which you did well on. Eastern Oregon is beautiful country, lived there for 8 years. Thanks, and enjoy.
Thanks!
such a beautiful area
Sure is!
A bad day on the water is better than a good day at work....
Thank you for another beautiful stream and for another insightful rod review. I can’t help wondering if perhaps the brown trout haven’t completely out-competed and replaced the brooks and rainbows. It’s been known to occur across much of the East.
Really? In this part of the country it's usually the brook trout that eat everything else out of house and home. Interesting. Thanks for watching!
5is good!❤😂
Would changing to a different fly might have made a difference ? Beautiful stream .
Nah, I don't think so. Creek fish don't seem to be too picky.
sweet!
I fish this stream about a dozen times during the year but I do better lower down at the first access point. Yes, almost all the fish are browns with the occasional rainbow. No brookies.
A few of the browns will run 10-12 inches.
Nice! That's good to know 👍
"Tanuki Pocket Ninja" What a cool name!
Lol yep, it is!
Was that band/wall of rocks a fish trap? I've seen Native American fish traps that look like that. They would close the upstream part and dip the fish out with a net. Not saying it's from the olden days but a recreation?
You could have gone a few miles to the west and you would have caught a lot more fish. Thanks for the videos!
Good to know! I fished a handful of creeks in this area and all of them were more or less like this. They had fish in them but were all kind of a struggle.
I’m hoping to get the tanuki ninja 240 the 7´10” rod good video
I'd like to fish that one!
About the rod, i may be wrong but if i remember corectly it was designed to cast weighted flies to fish deeper and fast water pools. So it's not that it can't be fished with a kebari or a wet fly, it's just that it will perform better with a heavier one.
Huh, I must have forgotten that. Makes sense! Thanks Carlos.
Hi, any chance You will test some glass rods?
Like which ones?
@ Aventik Zeno s2, it could be interesting comparing it to Im12 nano you have.
Good day....been following your videos for quite some time......have you fished any South Korean Bamboo tenkara rods?? I am currently stationed over here and have found a store with some pretty nice bamboo tenkara rods in 3 pieces at a realitive price....not quite as compact as a dragontail but still pretty nice.....i have a 9 footer and an 8 footer......they vary from 7' all the way to 12 maybe 13 as well....at least in bamboo.....great action and fairly durable......if you direct message me id be more than glad to send you a couple of rods at no cost....one trout fisherman to another :)
Nope, I haven't. That sounds great, though! There is no DM function on RUclips, but you can contact me through the form here: suvrving.com/contact/
Angling doesn't require patience, it needs controlled impatience.
Would a stiffer rod like that be useful for casting larger flies?
Yes
Wow great scenery and good fishing 🎣. Thx for video
Thanks for watching!
The creek looks nice but with a solid bottom and few movable rocks I’m guessing there’s not a lot of food there and therefore not a lot of fish.
👍 ! !!💜💜💜💜💜💜
Flows over ancient lava flows?
Or if granite based a little on the infertile side, brooks and bows may not tolerate the chemistry
Worth trying though
Not granite. Pretty sure it was basalt or something similar. Thanks for watching!
Just get a talon mini and call it a day!
I've got one. Fun little rod!
What part of oregon were you in?
I tend to not get more specific than to just say which state. Sorry!
Gotta be central Oregon
Could be! 😁
@ I wasn’t asking , just making a statement.
It could be the Los Angeles river too , but I don’t think it is🙂
Thall shall not KERSTRUMP in the stream.
Rods definitely too stiff
All Brown Trout and your research said brookies and rainbows... do you think people have any real idea what they're catching? Or did someone just see spots and figured 'brook trout' and someone else just defaulted to rainbow trout since that's all they 'know'? Or was there really a wholesale change in the fish population of that creek?
That's a good question. My guess is that there are brookies and rainbows in there, just not not the section I was fishing? It's a fairly long creek. But I don't know.
Beautiful creek and area but it did not look like good trout habitat at all, too few good pools, hard bottom etc. One fish every twenty minutes is pretty good for a creek like that.
I agree! Thanks for watching 👍
Well Hi. I do like your show BUT it would be nice if you would try to use equipment that will be within the price range of normal financially pocketed watchers. I mean get real, who putting milk and bread on the table is going to be interested in purchasing a 275 buck rushing rod. Yes it ought to be a good rod, agreed.
He has done quite a few videos with cheap rods in the past.
If you look at his channel he uses rods from the entire price range. From very cheap Amazon rods to rods in this price range.
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Dude I've fished rods at literally every price point, from $3 on up. I think I've fished more budget tenkara rods and made more videos about them than anyone else out there.
Get real? Are you 12? This was embarrassing to read. If you liked the show you know he does fish cheap rods.
This doesn't take away from his videos at all. Cheap rods won't keep you from casting and catching fish. You can do what he is doing for $80 an cheaper.
Regardless, even with a $200 rod Tenkara is still cheaper than any acceptable western fly fishing setup.
Do you quit fishing in the winter months?