This is such an educational video! Thank you Tom, as well as the teams at Orvis and The New Fly Fisher for providing us with the constant surplus of knowledge and entertainment! I wish I could meet you one day, Tom!
Tom Rosenbauer you are truly an inspiration I’m 61 and just tried fly fishing for the first time I caught my first ever Brown on my first time fly fishing . My second trip out to the Kern River I pretty much donated flies to the trees. Your videos are so helpful I will be back at again this weekend practicing the roll cast. Thank you very much and yes thank you Orvis. (By the way my first fly rod purchase was an Orvis )
Tom is one of the best fly fishing instructors. I still remember and use his teachings on reading trout streams from his book on the topic... 20+ years later.
Great videos! Very helpful and informative for a beginner like me. It's difficult to find instructional videos that aren't just body-cam footage of someone fishing with no commentary. Thank you from over the water in Glasgow, Scotland! :)
Watching a pool for a while without casting is very productive as said in this video, I am reminded of a time many years ago when I was in a true trophy river I sat and watched a rise for about 20 min I worked out where the bigger fish were sitting and was almost ready to get into the water and make my cast when a boorish guy strides up between me and the river and makes a cast to the smaller splashy risers in close and hooks up to a nice 3lb rainbow which took him way downstream in the pool I walked forward and cast to the big girl at the far side and also hooked up that fish took me nearly 10 minutes to get to the net I weighed it in the net at just under 10lb this dude was yelling at me for taking so long as he wanted to get back in to catch a big one. By now it was dark and I never said a word to the guy but wandered over to my tent and sat down for a glass of wine by the fire with my wife. That fish remained in the river to the best of my knowledge. Sometimes its all about the fish and you have to ignore the bullshit to get there. By the way that fish was the family PB until my granddaughter at 6yrs old caught a 10.5lb monster on a nymph. Another family legend.
started fly fishing last spring. Learning from YT and trail and error. It's a tough sport, but damn it's fun!! I enjoy these type of shows, so please keep them up.
@@davidhansen9665 When fly fishing you don't use shot for casting. The fly line is what carries your fly into the water. Shot is used to sink a nymph or streamer down into the water column. Putting shot on a line with a dry fly would indeed defeat the purpose, as a dry fly is supposed to rest on the top of the water.
The amount of progress I’ve made in the past 2 years because of this man is insane. I used to be extremely hesitant to fish a wild stream or unfamiliar waters. Now I kill every stream I fish with all sorts of techniques I’ve acquired and I’m proficient enough to read the water and adjust to give the fish what they want.
There is a small stream near me, A good running leap will get you across it in places, It has one of the heaviest Yellow sulfer hatches I have ever seen . Just before dark there is so many flies floating down stream it's hard to keep track of your fly. The trout set up a rhythm that you can almost time. YOU have to present the fly in not only the right place with no drag but also in the right time in the rhythm . A perfect presentation is no good if not timed right. Because of the undercut banks under old sycamores some trout are much larger than you would ever think could be in such a small stream.
Funny enough as a kid I started fly fishing with the dry fly. My dad reckoned I'd warm to it faster as it was much more visual. And I did. I've introduced a couple of friends to fly fishing and again I started them on the dry and they seemed to have the same experience. Others I've met down the years who started as most do(at least here in Ireland) by down stream wet fly fishing find the dry more difficult. I think a lot of it is the "high brow" perception of it, plus you can go years wet fly fishing and catching fish, with not so great casting and presentation skills. The current tends to smooth out bad technique. Thats harder to un-learn I think. Anyway great channel with great info. Subscribed. :)
I started fly fishing probably 8 or 9 years ago, and I'm not sure if I've ever caught a trout or salmon on a wet fly. (Plenty of pike on big streamers though) Where I live we're kind of spoiled for dry flies.
Nice video,especially with prospectinh..nice...and the best is dry droper tehnic....can you show,us beginers,more about dry droper tehnic...&how to set up the rod if I want to fish on a small strem...rod is 9 fit 6/7 ...reel is also 6/7,floating line....but what kind of leader,what size and long,also about tipet long&size. Greatings from Serbia....we love you videos!!!
Not just a really informative video but so beautiful the country and the water and great presenters knowledgable sensitive and just real nice guys Thanks form a cold and windy England.
Great video and an interesting technique "washing line" we are limited to only 3 single point hooks here, so I'll just swap off the one closes to the rod for a corky - just changed my entire list of things to do tomorrow to "go fishing! " :)
When the fish are rising but not that aggressive i put a trailer fly on like you said,,i tie about 18 inches of tippit onto the curl of the dry fly hook up front , what i do is if its a sulfer hatch i will take a dry sulfer fly and cut off all the hackle and use it as a nymph trailing the dry fly , i have had a ton of fish take the trailer sulfer fly for years.
I fish a floating line always, I use just drennans sun surface leader that I cut about 10ft in length. When I tie on a dry fly it doesn’t stay on the surface it gets wet then sinks, do I need to apply a floatant to the leader and fly ?
The trout in my area are as blind as a bat. They often miss the dry fly when they do go for it but mostly, it's keeping patient as you try the 100th dry fly that they are ignoring.
I laughed when you referred to the fast flowing river as a 'stream' ...... a stream in the UK would be about 6 - 10 feet wide... anything bigger would be a 'river'..... everything is BIGGER in the U.S.! Great video though - techniques are universal.... Thanks!
Except in Arizona,, lol. I grew up in New Hampshire fishing/hunting NH & Maine. Where our Streams, Rivers, Ponds & Lakes are some of the clearest cleanest In US. I moved to Arizona 4 yrs ago asked everyone where do we go swimming, fishing etc. They brought me to this tiny dark brown creek saying here's one of our best rivers.. WTHeck.. I was so bummed out. Same with lakes here in Az are size of our ponds/bogs back east. I miss seeing 17' down watching trout swim around in my NH & Maine waters. Az water bites.. But they do have huge Elk, Bear, and some very strange Cryptid Sasquatch & Dogmen.. Yikes !!! Lol
@@jamesgibbs8827 you're missing a good few great waters in AZ then! Lived there for a few years and the fishing is phenomenal. Try Payson area for some really great small creeks, the Colorado has some great trout fishing as well if you want bigger water, and there are some very large lakes there with Lake Pleasant, Havasu, and Roosevelt, and quite a few others. The fishing is definitely different, but great in it's own way. I even caught my largest rainbow in AZ at 24", with a lot of them coming close. Check out Will Jordan's 'Fly Fisher's Guide to Arizona' for lists of great waters along with access points and flies to use.
depends upon the fly and the circumstances. swinging an emerger without movement works well but sometime you need to give it little twitches like it is struggling in the water. for dry flies, you usually left them float or drift in current
We were blessed with a country boy father, who was very happy to take his four sons fishing and hunting. We learned skills, reverence for the quarry and appreciation for God's amazing creation.
I totally understand the concept behind making a presentation with as little drag as possible but how come I’ve had the most success fishing downstream when I’m holding the dry flies position or slowly advancing it upstream ? I know this is the exact opposite of how you’re supposed to do it but I seem to have gotten a large majority of all my nicest trout this way
I wanted to get a top reach of 7 foot 4 at a hookup of a brook trout while fishing from my canoe, but while trying the top reach , ( i'm 5 foot 6 ) i fell overboard , sank my canoe and lost the fish but had a great day however.
If you're not familiar with certain fly spelling, the closed captioning can throw you off. "Cantus"fly which should be spelled Caddis fly. Some places it's spelled correctly, other places not.
Scientists are divided about whether pinching down barbs helps protect fish, specifically trout. John Cooke at Carlton University in Ottawa Canada is doing research on this right now as there is NO actual proof scientifically that going barbless helps trout. As he likes to say, "it depends". So many important factors like size of hook and its shape, species of fish and size. Hopefully his study will be out soon to help everyone make better choices about barbed versus barbless.
Why is he fishing with the line over the rod at ruclips.net/video/m37uzf7cVYA/видео.html. I always was taught that was bad, because if you end up on the reel, the line will be wrapped and cause issues. Looks like its intentional though.
What I find great about fishing, I don't care much for hurting the little things. They are all uncaring eaters, they all kill and eat fish shrimp and stuff alive and whole. Unlike deer... it always takes two or three tries to pull the trigger until I am sure I want to eat it.
This is such an educational video! Thank you Tom, as well as the teams at Orvis and The New Fly Fisher for providing us with the constant surplus of knowledge and entertainment! I wish I could meet you one day, Tom!
Tom Rosenbauer you are truly an inspiration I’m 61 and just tried fly fishing for the first time I caught my first ever Brown on my first time fly fishing . My second trip out to the Kern River I pretty much donated flies to the trees. Your videos are so helpful I will be back at again this weekend practicing the roll cast. Thank you very much and yes thank you Orvis. (By the way my first fly rod purchase was an Orvis )
Tom is one of the best fly fishing instructors. I still remember and use his teachings on reading trout streams from his book on the topic... 20+ years later.
Great videos! Very helpful and informative for a beginner like me. It's difficult to find instructional videos that aren't just body-cam footage of someone fishing with no commentary. Thank you from over the water in Glasgow, Scotland! :)
Great info that I was looking for. Thanks again and keep up the great videos!
Outstanding! You got the whole cast together for this one. That was amazing!
Watching a pool for a while without casting is very productive as said in this video, I am reminded of a time many years ago when I was in a true trophy river I sat and watched a rise for about 20 min I worked out where the bigger fish were sitting and was almost ready to get into the water and make my cast when a boorish guy strides up between me and the river and makes a cast to the smaller splashy risers in close and hooks up to a nice 3lb rainbow which took him way downstream in the pool I walked forward and cast to the big girl at the far side and also hooked up that fish took me nearly 10 minutes to get to the net I weighed it in the net at just under 10lb this dude was yelling at me for taking so long as he wanted to get back in to catch a big one. By now it was dark and I never said a word to the guy but wandered over to my tent and sat down for a glass of wine by the fire with my wife. That fish remained in the river to the best of my knowledge.
Sometimes its all about the fish and you have to ignore the bullshit to get there. By the way that fish was the family PB until my granddaughter at 6yrs old caught a 10.5lb monster on a nymph. Another family legend.
Congrats to your grand daughter, that is a monster!
started fly fishing last spring. Learning from YT and trail and error. It's a tough sport, but damn it's fun!!
I enjoy these type of shows, so please keep them up.
When using dry flies do you need to put a shot on line for easy casting or does that defeat the purpose
@@davidhansen9665 When fly fishing you don't use shot for casting. The fly line is what carries your fly into the water. Shot is used to sink a nymph or streamer down into the water column. Putting shot on a line with a dry fly would indeed defeat the purpose, as a dry fly is supposed to rest on the top of the water.
@@davidhansen9665 wrong you are casting the main line not the leader or fly
The amount of progress I’ve made in the past 2 years because of this man is insane. I used to be extremely hesitant to fish a wild stream or unfamiliar waters. Now I kill every stream I fish with all sorts of techniques I’ve acquired and I’m proficient enough to read the water and adjust to give the fish what they want.
thanks for positive feedback, motivates us to make more great content to help everyone learn
Your passion for fly fishing comes across well in your videos. Tight lines and blessings from Ireland
Great video! Very informational!
Great flies busy tieing them now can’t wait to try steve t.
Have fun
Great video. It is not often that we can basically be out on the river with a master.....taking a master class
great video thank you! Def gonna watch your other videos
There is a small stream near me, A good running leap will get you across it in places, It has one of the heaviest Yellow sulfer hatches I have ever seen . Just before dark there is so many flies floating down stream it's hard to keep track of your fly. The trout set up a rhythm that you can almost time. YOU have to present the fly in not only the right place with no drag but also in the right time in the rhythm . A perfect presentation is no good if not timed right. Because of the undercut banks under old sycamores some trout are much larger than you would ever think could be in such a small stream.
Humm... man the memories . Sulfur hatch eg. buck fever.
Funny enough as a kid I started fly fishing with the dry fly. My dad reckoned I'd warm to it faster as it was much more visual. And I did. I've introduced a couple of friends to fly fishing and again I started them on the dry and they seemed to have the same experience. Others I've met down the years who started as most do(at least here in Ireland) by down stream wet fly fishing find the dry more difficult. I think a lot of it is the "high brow" perception of it, plus you can go years wet fly fishing and catching fish, with not so great casting and presentation skills. The current tends to smooth out bad technique. Thats harder to un-learn I think.
Anyway great channel with great info. Subscribed. :)
I started fly fishing probably 8 or 9 years ago, and I'm not sure if I've ever caught a trout or salmon on a wet fly. (Plenty of pike on big streamers though) Where I live we're kind of spoiled for dry flies.
Check the size, profile, and color all day, presentation, presentation, presentation is what matters (as said at 7:00).
Around 23:04 to 23:06 when Tom catches a brown on a dry fly...what is on his line 18" above the hook?
look at 16:09.. there's at least 3 fish, just a few meters on his left side..
valzerna those fished were pressured so they wouldn’t bite that’s why he left them, happens to me sometimes
Nice video,especially with prospectinh..nice...and the best is dry droper tehnic....can you show,us beginers,more about dry droper tehnic...&how to set up the rod if I want to fish on a small strem...rod is 9 fit 6/7 ...reel is also 6/7,floating line....but what kind of leader,what size and long,also about tipet long&size.
Greatings from Serbia....we love you videos!!!
Not just a really informative video but so beautiful the country and the water and great presenters knowledgable sensitive and just real nice guys Thanks form a cold and windy England.
Here in the midlands is very nice atm,fly fishing is amazing on wild Avon
The Bob Ross of fly fishing 😎
Great Video, its really helpful and fun to watch.
Hopefully I will catch my next weak.
9:19 just as he says “stop and wait for the fish to feed again” a fish feeds right above his head.
Perfect timing.
And then later on he was like I’m pretty sure there’s fish in here as a nice trout swam right past his feet
Great video and an interesting technique "washing line" we are limited to only 3 single point hooks here, so I'll just swap off the one closes to the rod for a corky - just changed my entire list of things to do tomorrow to "go fishing! " :)
Love this site so informative thankyou for your hard work and info
Thanks for watching!
When the fish are rising but not that aggressive i put a trailer fly on like you said,,i tie about 18 inches of tippit onto the curl of the dry fly hook up front , what i do is if its a sulfer hatch i will take a dry sulfer fly and cut off all the hackle and use it as a nymph trailing the dry fly , i have had a ton of fish take the trailer sulfer fly for years.
beautiful country thanks for that!
Nice Video - Thanks for the tips. Regards
I fish a floating line always, I use just drennans sun surface leader that I cut about 10ft in length. When I tie on a dry fly it doesn’t stay on the surface it gets wet then sinks, do I need to apply a floatant to the leader and fly ?
Your videos are always SO interesting, educative and motivating!
The trout in my area are as blind as a bat. They often miss the dry fly when they do go for it but mostly, it's keeping patient as you try the 100th dry fly that they are ignoring.
I laughed when you referred to the fast flowing river as a 'stream' ...... a stream in the UK would be about 6 - 10 feet wide... anything bigger would be a 'river'..... everything is BIGGER in the U.S.! Great video though - techniques are universal.... Thanks!
Except in Arizona,, lol. I grew up in New Hampshire fishing/hunting NH & Maine. Where our Streams, Rivers, Ponds & Lakes are some of the clearest cleanest In US. I moved to Arizona 4 yrs ago asked everyone where do we go swimming, fishing etc. They brought me to this tiny dark brown creek saying here's one of our best rivers.. WTHeck.. I was so bummed out. Same with lakes here in Az are size of our ponds/bogs back east. I miss seeing 17' down watching trout swim around in my NH & Maine waters. Az water bites.. But they do have huge Elk, Bear, and some very strange Cryptid Sasquatch & Dogmen.. Yikes !!! Lol
@@jamesgibbs8827 you're missing a good few great waters in AZ then! Lived there for a few years and the fishing is phenomenal. Try Payson area for some really great small creeks, the Colorado has some great trout fishing as well if you want bigger water, and there are some very large lakes there with Lake Pleasant, Havasu, and Roosevelt, and quite a few others. The fishing is definitely different, but great in it's own way. I even caught my largest rainbow in AZ at 24", with a lot of them coming close. Check out Will Jordan's 'Fly Fisher's Guide to Arizona' for lists of great waters along with access points and flies to use.
On the west coast of Canada, the term stream is used for any flowing body of water.
Rivers are big streams. Creeks are small streams.
Shout out to Garrett at the end there, great guide at Madison River Outfitters!
Great vid,that was fun.
Can you just leave your fly like a bait or do u have to jerk it like a lure
depends upon the fly and the circumstances. swinging an emerger without movement works well but sometime you need to give it little twitches like it is struggling in the water. for dry flies, you usually left them float or drift in current
Very Nice Video...Is so Amaizing & Challenge watching a fish taking your Dry-Fly...
Thanks for the Tips!
Keep it up the good work!😎👍
Thanks TR
"THERES THE DRY FLY FISH! THE CHALLENGE! THE CHALLENGE HAS BEEN MET!"
Awsome video
16:04 there was good sized fish that was right beside you it was the one you caught
Nothing like Dry Fly Fishing
Dam str8!!!✔👌
非常好，很喜欢。
11:52 Homie in the background hooks up!
We were blessed with a country boy father, who was very happy to take his four sons fishing and hunting.
We learned skills, reverence for the quarry and appreciation for God's amazing creation.
Can you fish dry flies on summer time
yes you can
Is the presentation different?
I totally understand the concept behind making a presentation with as little drag as possible but how come I’ve had the most success fishing downstream when I’m holding the dry flies position or slowly advancing it upstream ? I know this is the exact opposite of how you’re supposed to do it but I seem to have gotten a large majority of all my nicest trout this way
That does work, especially on streams with little pressure. We plan on doing a video about that technique. Thanks for your question
The New Fly Fisher interesting stuff, sorry for so many comments lately!
I wanted to get a top reach of 7 foot 4 at a hookup of a brook trout while fishing from my canoe, but while trying the top reach , ( i'm 5 foot 6 ) i fell overboard , sank my canoe and lost the fish but had a great day however.
This is one of the best 'Short' Stories I ever read.
Nothing says spring trout fishing better than casting a giant hairy bug out and watching a big fat brown inhale it!
16.10 pretty sure there's fish there too Tom. Great video!
What is a good size trout fly rod
Most would agree either a five or six weight is best size for trout
Ok thanks for the info
ive just started fly fishing i had my fly directly above 3 trout and none wanted it =[
Matt drift change and try different ones mate.
Matt drift , they aren’t silly.
They have got to look the part u got to present it properly
It starts at 1:28.
I thought I was having stroke at 21:20 trying to understand that sentence. Still good content though, thanks
If you're not familiar with certain fly spelling, the closed captioning can throw you off. "Cantus"fly which should be spelled Caddis fly. Some places it's spelled correctly, other places not.
Good point, the automatic closed captioning service with RUclips does often mistakes, thanks for raising that point
brilliant again , thank you.
That rise at 9:18 tho
4:50 that's not what cavitation is :)
Why don't you mash those Barb's Tom?
Scientists are divided about whether pinching down barbs helps protect fish, specifically trout. John Cooke at Carlton University in Ottawa Canada is doing research on this right now as there is NO actual proof scientifically that going barbless helps trout. As he likes to say, "it depends". So many important factors like size of hook and its shape, species of fish and size. Hopefully his study will be out soon to help everyone make better choices about barbed versus barbless.
thank you, this helps
good video
why non of u use a line basket now all line is in water or grass/mud
7:54 why do you use tandem rigg, or is that an indicator ;)) Hahahahahaha
I wish orvis sold those gold reels still :(
Why is he fishing with the line over the rod at ruclips.net/video/m37uzf7cVYA/видео.html. I always was taught that was bad, because if you end up on the reel, the line will be wrapped and cause issues. Looks like its intentional though.
What I find great about fishing, I don't care much for hurting the little things. They are all uncaring eaters, they all kill and eat fish shrimp and stuff alive and whole. Unlike deer... it always takes two or three tries to pull the trigger until I am sure I want to eat it.
Fly fishing is a way of fishing which makes it as difficult as possible to catch fish
I've never caught more fish than I have fly fishing. Keep at it!
That is one large stream
I was pooping while watching this 💩🤗
7:45 "A Beautiful Brown Trout, YAAAAY"
Stupid amount of fish in those creeks lol.
if you don`t give the fish the Perfect Presentation . whatever fly Used is useless!!
Despite doing all this you'll still have days when you get skunked. Bummer.
Just the way it is sometimes!
This is a bad video to watch while stuck at work🤣Great info tho.
"choose when you see ads" Never! (I skipped this video)
Yy u
I got an ad for woman shampoo whatever that was about