REGIONAL STEREOTYPES IN FLY FISHING
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You forgot to mention all the Huge fly fishers in the northeast who adjust their fishing calendar to match the stocking truck schedule.😂
Live in CT. This is spot on.
Can’t forget the guys that get super excited over tiny schoolie stripers or albies (I understand that excitement)
Exactly!!! Especially in CT. And they write nasty notes to DEEP complaining about their area not getting stocked enough. LMAO!!
@@DicmoI am also from Connecticut. You are not wrong
This is South Jersey for sure. True, we don't have holdover trout but the day after stocking is a cluster*&%#!
Thank god that 99.9 % of fly fishermen have no idea where the best fishing is.
Thank god 99.9% of fly fisherman think they know where the best fishing is
Thank god that 99.9% of fly fisherman won’t use spinning gear. I love catching more fish
@@stdr04 yet here you are...
@@stdr04thank God 99.9 percent of tourists use spinning rods for trout, I love catching more fish.
Breathing a big new england sigh of relief today * sips on an iced coffee from dunkin *
Ha
I second that guy
I hope Timmie's gets a mention when he does the Canadian version....
“If you’re from New England, that means that you think that a 9” wild brookie is a big deal, you spend most of your time watching your states stocking report and you think that catching a 20” holdover trout from the Farmington makes you a big deal (throw a Ron Burgundy meme there). Newsflash, it doesn’t.”🤣🤣🤣
Your opinion on Great Lakes migratory trout and land locked slime zombies is valued and appreciated- Guy who's region was only barely mentioned.
must be Or
The Michigan one killed me! Thanks Ben, HUGE as usual!
I am a New Mexican and have been fly fishing for more years than I care to count. I have always refused to fish the San Juan simply because of all the Texas over crowding. Do not ask for my honey holes, I don't want them ruined by outsiders!
100%, there’s definitely more to NM fly fishing than at the San Juan. I’m Glad majority of out-of-state folks mainly know of San Juan
I put baseball cards in my reel so all the other Oregon guys know I've got a monster on the line.
From Idaho. Can confirm our distaste of Carrot Snappers (Utahns) that buy up all the river front in Island Park.
Thank you for going easy on NY. There’s so much to work with here…😊😊
I was expecting Arkansas to get eviscerated bc all of our trout streams are tailwaters😅 but you must’ve done your research bc most of our browns are wild and we have a healthy (non-tailwater) smallmouth game.
As a Texan I fish almost exclusively in my own state. People seriously underestimate the number of species we have easily available.
I lived in west Texas for 6 years. I loved fly fishing for white crappie at night. So much fun and good eats.
As someone who lives in British Columbia I love the Brian Chan reference and look forward to an international video on the topic. Keep up the good videos
I was surprised to see Brian! Haha! He’s a stillwater legend here!
@@KBosch-xp2ut Yes between Brian and Phil Rowley we have some Canadian Stillwater legends
Brian Chan literally changed my life. I'm a HUGE fan.
Brian Chan rules
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Can't believe there wasn't a Yellow Breeches joke in there.
This was hilarious 😂, would love to see a pt. 2! You should include a New England breakdown (MA, VT, ME, etc.).
Thanks for acknowledging us guys in Northern California as part of the PNW and not grouping us in with all the shit bags from the valley and the bay. Anything south of there should just break off into the ocean..
You’re spot on about MI.
In addition to the Colorado fly fishers, they usually have “Colorado native” bumper stickers on their Subarus like it’s some feat to be born and then continue living in a location. Makes you want to ask each one, “How’d you do it?”
😂😂😂
Great video! This weekend in Arkansas I've caught small mouth, blue gill and trout My 81 year old dad and I are going with a guide this morning so I don't have to drive the boat. And it's fun . Yep I suck at fly fishing.
You never mentioned Nebraska. We have, like, 130 ft of trout water here.
Haha! Thanks for some love on Michigan. It’s true, we are pretty intense. Sending good vibes from the real au sable.
I'll never forget being harassed when I was 15 for changing to a baitcaster and having a great steelhead day drift fishing while the fly guys didn't get shit
CO....Pueblo. I caught my largest trout ever (32" rainbow) on a nymph 50 yards from the dam of Pueblo res...I fish for everything that'll take a fly in CO. Got pike at 11 mile res, bluegill in...well anywhere there's water....greenbacks in the San Juan and Wet Mountains and soon grayling North of Steamboat.
PNW guy here. Fished Colorado for the first time this year and this is my take. We have too much water and not enough fish. You guys have too many fish and not enough water.
Are we not good enough here In Virginia?!?
Nah Ben just has love for the DMV! 😂❤
As an Oregonian I am offended by how spot on you are. No one disparages our Clicky click reels! Haha love the videos man!
Thank you Ben for the assessment of New Mexico fly fishing opportunities. As a New Mexican I truly appreciate it. I absolutely want to discourage any anglers who might have an inkling that there's anything good going on here - on the water or off - that might be interesting. If you must come to barren New Mexico, please funnel yourself to Texas Hole, or at least stay on the San Juan! Us locals will tough it out while hoping we get a chance to foray up the road to Colorado to fish the Blue at the outlet mall or dip a line in the Platte just off I-25 in Denver.
“Up north they’re fishing the fake Au Sable and confusing everyone” hahahaha I died a little with that one
Michigan Ausable is the one and only
@@khoile976 yeah fake Ausable sucks! Please don't go there.
“You think you’re cool because your reel goes clicky-clicky ..” LMAO😂
Would love to see a profile on southern California anglers once you get around the international episode ...
Ben, your take on Alaskan fishermen is spot on, even though it could’ve been more in depth! Come on man, you know this is the Mecca 😂! Oh, and some of us are lucky enough to have been born and raised here in the darkness, we didn’t get to choose. We just chose to stay because the fishing is so awesome 😂.
Also, I love your videos man! Keep up the good work!
As a person on the coast of NC I fully support everyone going to the mountains to fish.
As a person on the coast of TX who's actually from Colorado, I'm conflicted. I think it's absolutely bizarre that so many Texans fixate on trout in SW Colorado and the Dramalupe, but I don't miss them in the marsh either.
He did not have to call out Drew from DrewLooknFishy like that 🤣🤣
You missed my home state, Missouri, and our shoulder to shoulder Ozark trout streams. Actually I've fished most all species around Missouri with a fly rod, but I suck at fly fishing.
Dont lie to him. There s no fly fishing here. I wouldn't want someone coming here and getting disappointed when they can go to the states he mentioned.
No comment on New England at all? I can’t say I totally mind, there’s nothing to fish for anyways.
Damn California is that bad we just get breezed over in this.😑
There isn’t even any water left in your state, let alone fish
@@CrackkkCrazyyy man you should turn the news off there’s plenty of both
@@CA2CAoutdoors you are young, dumb, and ur ass is filled with c*m. are you unaware there has been in an extreme drought for the last four years?? Id stop watching the news and reading up on the EPA and CDFA… you might learn something more than how to start a shitty youtube channel….
Please make a Canada version, or at least international.
As a guy who lives and fly fishes in Tennessee, you hit it pretty well. Definitely alotta options other than browns on the SoHo. I also agree with your take on NC. I’ve said before that as an angler that might be the best state to live in. You’ve got salt on the east coast, bass, muskies, etc. in the Piedmont, then trout in the mountains. Even if you have to make a short drive over the Cumberland Gap into Tennessee for big trout, there’s alotta options.
You missed the Driftless in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. People in the south also fish delayed harvest streams for stocked trout or fish mountain streams for small wild rainbows and native (?) brook trout.
Northern Minnesota pike guys pressed rn
Like he said. He didn't skip us, we don't matter lol
[waves Jedi hand] There are no fish in the Driftless. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Oh, good point. Doesn't like half of Chicago go to the Driftless??
And of course you just shared it with anyone who didn't know about it lol. He missed my state and Im good with that.
You missed Maine, only place in the lower 48 with arctic char :)
As a guy from western new york i completely agree with you about the salmon in the creeks. But if you ever have the chance to fish the niagara river for them its a whole different game and they bite
Idaho was spot on. It's also the greatest state for fly-fishing.
Yeah the Idaho stereotype was pretty on the nose
......was
Great video. Michigan comments had me dead -- so accurate. You left out California, a lot to be dealt with. Right angle nymphers, striper nuts, and high sierra dudes who forget their rods every hike but not their fish whistles.
Great Lakes is mostly accurate... a lot of the MI comments apply to Some of the WI fishers too
All hail Michigan! Also, I understood that Arkansas-Idaho joke!!
Who is the Arkansas guy he is talking about from Idaho?
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Wait homie never mentioned Maine are you actually joking
Pretty accurate, as an idaho angler that was born and raised here I can agree that I don’t fish with anyone on the regular that was also born and raised here. Lol and we absolutely hate on Utards them and their craft beers and flat brims. “Logos out”
So true as stereotypes. We moved from CO to MT, being tired of the overcrowding everywhere except deep in the bowels of Byers or other difficult-to-access places. Our home waters were on The Blue, well north of Silverthorne. During COVID there was no place to park because all the Frangers and Texans invaded, even though they were supposed to stay close to home. I guess “close” meant anywhere between 80 and 1,000 miles. But the invasion continued and we couldn’t tolerate it so we invaded NW Montana where everyone has a boat but us. 😆
As someone who lives in NY this was highly entertaining - though if you do a chrome coho or king, you're in for a good time!
As a Utah fly angler I find this hilarious. There definitely aren't too many big rivers. However there are lots of good small streams that make me happy!
Quiet, you! We don't need any more people to know that!
@@Makapo3791 Yeah keep em at the Berry and Dutch John we don't need more social media anglers mishandling the good fish 😆
Nope. Just the Green, Provo, and Weber here.
@@spencerthomason6558 when he said we only have three places to fish every Utah angler knew the three places he was talking about haha.
All the Utah stuff is spot on.
This is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen and once you release the BC video it will be shown to my anthropology professor.
Come fish possum kingdom in texas. Tons of bass, smallies, striped bass, and sand bass. The unofficial state record striper was caught there. Lots of flats areas to carp fish too
As a Texan, I can confirm this. Nothing like being the only dude in the shallows throwing at bass. The Guad rocks, as long as you don't hook someone from Austin.
Just spent the weekend fly fishing for bass on the San Marcos. I hooked a few but they got off the hook jumping and all that. Texas fly fishing in the hill country rocks!
@@marcosmontez8555 I actually hate the hill country, except for the guad and maybe perd. I prefer northern hill country around Whitney, Goldthwaite, PK, etc. So much scenery to look at while there.
Same. Only problem I've consistently found is that on-lookers will stop their cars to take picture like you're paid by the state to entertain them. I gotta be famous or something around the Brazos. There has to be hundreds of my casts circulating the internet by now. I'm convinced I should copyright my cast at this point, lol
More for us then
Honestly I kind of got out of fly fishing when I moved back for eight years after college (I'm a native). Either the rivers were too brushy to back cast or the lakes were too windy to shore fish. And the Guad was kinda meh, granted I only tried it once. If I'm being honest though I was a lazy pot head then too. Now I'm a Denver pleb though (aspiring at becoming a Wyoming wind sufferer at some point).
How about you and Alvin Dedeaux catching up to fly fish together in one of your videos? That’s Texas and bass as well as redfish. Just a thought!
Upvote for Alvin. He's good people.
We’ve tried to get together. It’ll happen someday.
Keep believing (and advertising) that there are only 3 places to fish in Utah. The beehive state thanks you. 😊😊😊
Another great location to highlight is the Driftless Area in MN, WI & Iowa. Love your videos!
Definitely not a “great location”
I guess New England doesn't matter...
Proud to be from Michigan right now.
I lived in AK for a while. You can make fun of beads all you want, but it's called matching the hatch. That being said, during the time of year when the fish are gorging on eggs, you can do pretty well with a flesh fly too. And then there's TX, which is pretty much like NM. They have ONE trout stream. It's a tail water that has NO wild fish in it, and they managed somehow to get it listed as one of the 50 best trout streams in the U.S. Yeah, I don't think so.
Cool, he said yinz! I'm in Colorado now but grew up in southwest PA.
Thanks to your videos I decided to try fly fishing. Bought a rod and took it out the back yard to practice casting. It promptly snapped near the first snake guide. Not the greatest start, not gunna lie.
Return it - probably a defect, and they get them "for free", and want to keep you as a customer. Anglers waste money on all kinds of stuff.
I can tell you EXACTLY where those Texas guys go to fish. Oklahoma. Especially the Dallas guys.
We have a couple seasonal and one year round tailwater that get absolutely hammered by Texas plates. They would rather drive past hundreds of smallmouth, giant striper, and largemouth lakes/rivers just to catch a couple stockers and gillfuck a wild brown. Also they wear waders in 80-90 degree days.
.....gillfuck.....LMFAO 🤣🤣
So darn funny! How do you not get beat up everywhere you go? Great video!😂
The Texans going to Pagosa was 100% accurate make sure you stop in to Let It Fly and say hello to Pops
Hilarious! I was working a two boat float the other day up here in Mantana and you should have seen the look on our clients faces when the other guide told them they weren’t “Steelhead” when one client was talking about the Great Lakes…
I'm in New England, so I don't matter, but damn that was funny.
Michigan here....We can be intense, for all the right reasons.....lol. Wouldn't change it for the world! You name it, we fish it.
Epic. Love to see an international review
#1: I have never fished from a drift boat. #2: I do bitch about and at the tourons!!! #3: I am at 100% born and raised Montanan, been a Resident for 60 years. I love wade fishing!!!
Boy did you give Pennsylvania the short shrift. 85,000 miles of streams covered in 8.7 seconds? Pennsylvania defines Huge.
What? No Missouri? Trout park wanna-bees with a giant stupid tag on their hat that are too cheap to buy a trout stamp to fish any of the other cool rivers in the state.
Washington: hike 6hrs, 8mi, 4000ft of elevation gain to fish stocked trout.
Always happy for a shout-out! Thanks for the laughs!
Just south of SC and TN is the N Ga fly fisherman… me or us… we won’t the dry fly action of the NE and the west but we know there are really no know special hatches.. it’s warm year round.
We go blue lining for hours and house to try to catch the only native trout to N ga … but we then go straight to the hatchery fish like ambulance chasing lawyers… that trout truck is money…
A squirmy worm and a pats rubber leg or a salmon egg and it’s game on….
Welcome to N Ga.
You forgot Virginia. You know, following the trout stocking truck around the tiny creeks littered with nightcrawler boxes and empty salmon egg jars littered on the creek bank. Kind of like, if North Carolina and Tennessee had a baby, it would be Virginia...
They dont do that much in the moutnains as much anyway
HAHA you nailed Colorado. I am Guilty of all the tailwater fishing. But hey, when the capital owns a majority of the water for the weekend warrior what are you going to do?
I had a purist fly fisherman tell me that I shouldn't use a leach pattern because it didn't "match the hatch"! He left because he saw the 'Who are you" look on my face! I don't fly fish for anyone but me!
Brah, you skipped Hawai’i!! We get world class bonefishing out here, Maui Brewing, great weed and perfect weather year-round. We say things like “Eh, brah, I stay fishing here already”, “eh, like beef?”, “who ya maddah?”, “Dirty lickins”, No can”, and “Shoots, brah, buggah went bankrupt me.”
More, more, more! And come down to Birmingham and fish America’s Amazon sometime. From right here in town to just up the road in Muscle Shoals we have gorgeous, camo wearing, 5 weight busting Micropterus Henshalli “Alabama Bass”, powerful smallies, and nearly all the distinct species of red eye bass (our mtn brooks), all in clear moving water. And beer.
Alaskan here. Can confirm the bead situation. Also, we do catch the most fish because... it's easy to do up here. I've caught a 24" trout on cellophane from a friends cigarette packaging. They want to eat whatever you throw at them (yes, including rocks!). Also, the winters suck. A lot. Enough to make me go to where the sun shines for at least a month every Jan / Feb. Then it's back to AK where I put on my headlamp, cut out a 50' chunk of ice out of the lake to put my boat into to wet a line. Stayin' HUGE in one of the smallest provinces, I mean states in Canada!
As a Texas fly fisherman ya pan fish are our trout. So much fun. Lol.
Honestly with current state of fishing in the PNW I'm super happy if I catch 2 fish a year.... with my two handed clicky setup that I needed a mortgage to afford.
In true huge fly fisherman fashion….ahem..ahem…. Listen up buddy, there is probably a bigger population of fly fisherman than you think in the Midwest! Specifically Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota and most of us leave the trout to the ninnies. Golden bonefish forever🤘🎏
Intense video... No Brown's in Alaska FFS I'll just stay here and zombie fish
You are right, Maine does not matter. No fish up here. They are all stockies and small!
Probably my favorite video so far 👍
PNW single hander🦑🤺
Freakishly accurate...
Michigan is pretty spot on! Nice work!
MT wader here. Loading up a boat is too mu h effort when I can walk a half mile.
Ben, one your best for sure. As a Canadian, I think you should do an international version and take a poke at that reputation as well. For my two cents in Canada, we basically have lake anglers and river anglers in the fly fishing community. I only fish lakes when the rivers are “unfishable” because of boat safety and not water clarity
There’s always fishable rivers in Canada no matter the water level or clarity! #riversforlife 😂
You missed all the smallmouth guys and gals in the Midwest! Very accurate about the rest of the Great Lakes fishing though 😂
Hahaha I’m from Wyoming but I live in Colorado now and i feel so conflicted about how both stereotypes were me😂
Love the BC comment and a picture of Brian Chan. He is the king of BC Interior lake Fishing. I went out on the Cheakamus in Squamish last Friday. Not one fish. Lots of Coho but weren't interested in anything we threw at them. That's fly fishing.
Texas here. Lol I B.A.S.S. fish Toledo, Rayburn, forks possum kingdom, Ivie. Just started fly fishing this year and am already over conventional
Gotta add something about Texas... Anything that is awesome to fish is a well kept secret, other than redfish or sea trout that mostly googans chase. Anything else is not to be discussed. If you know, you know. If you don't you have the wrong friends.
How about fly fishing in Maine. More than 10,000 lakes, Ponds, Streams and Rivers. Oh yea--It's Beautiful here.
Rio grande New Mexico?
As an oregonian i highly reccomend montana and idaho........highly. like, you all should go there. Nothing to see here.
If the Texas anglers would fish their own state mine would be much less crowded. Plus, they buy all the homes and drive the market up so none of us can buy a decent house near our one good fishery. I'm thinking of moving to Texas and just fish the coastline, their can't be anyone there. They're all in Oklahoma at beaver's bend.
Nice to see Brian Chan represent BC! ...and what about BC? Not just the Skeena... something local to us, the Chilliwack River during the fall salmon runs! Where anglers wear deodorant because they're so close!
haaaahaaaa......u forgot my state.....its east tennessee and western north carolina......we dont claim east north carolina or middle ..west tennessee......love ur video!!!!
Get Tommy Lynch off of the Arkansas part…he’s not Arkansas and we would never claim him.
Side note….we’ve tried running off the “one guy” many many times.