Stalking Big Brown Trout - Fly Fishing Lechlade
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Lechlade Fishery is World Renowned for producing Huge Rainbow and Brown Trout.
In this film Wilderness TV's very own Monster Trout Guide, Malcolm Hunt, takes the Wilderness Tv team back to Lechlade Fisheries, Fly Fishing for Huge Brown and Rainbow Trout.
Stalking these stunning lakes for Monster Trout using a very light 4 weight Rod is awesome and lets just say the rewards, mind blowing.
So for how to stalk monster trout, this fly fishing film is a must. Learn from the master himself, Malcolm Hunt.
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Thanks The Buitenman. Glad you like the film. Please check out the rest of out films and plenty more to com this year.
After a decade, I still come back to this video to have a good chuckle 😂 Anyone who can get so excited about catching obese fresh stockies in a manicured duck pond is not a real flyangler. To brag about it like Malcom and claim he's an expert, well that's just pure comedy 😂😂
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Thanks Carl, I've not had so much fun for ages. x
Forgot to say Thank You Jonathan for supporting us for 10 years.
@@techsecmedia learn English.....it's our not are.
Fantastic video, makes me want to fish every time I see your videos. Great job guys, keep it going.
Great film of how to catch the bigger fish at Lechlade - and good advice for all stalking waters. Thanks very much, I enjoyed it. I would love to have had a shot of a selection of flies used though. I see you were using bugs but a look at them would have been nice - maybe next film..? Best wishes, PB
Nice job! This type of fishing reminds me of fly fishing the fall river in central Oregon. It's crystal clear and there's plenty of 15-20 inch rainbow trout to be caught outta the deep pools and some get bigger than 25 inches. The method is similar, I swing a large heavy fly (sculpzilla or wooley bugger) with a tiny nymph attached, lifting it in front of the fishes face to get a strike. On Saturday I caught a 20 inch rainbow, a 17 inch rainbow, and broke off on another large rainbow.
Cool video nice fish
Well done on your first trout. the fly was a small bug. I will show some in our next big fish stalking film.
Thanks Frank Osterburg. We were using stalking bugs. Thanks for your comments. We believe there is room for all types of fly fishing. We hope to embrace all forms of fishing. Nicky
Love the video have viewed it several times over the years....I would sell my first unborn child to fish the bank by the house at Lechlade ....so many big fish gather there.....please ignore the few negative comments I never understand why they come to videos filmed at big fish waters just to tell people they do not approve
Well said!
So sad....fake easy fishing. These fish are fed by man. This guide an expert is utterly laughable!
brilliant video and amazing fish..
Hi Tristan, No brook trout here as far as I am aware. Our Native trout is the Brown, but some fisheries stock Rainbow, Tiger and Blue trout. Grayling is also a good wild fish here.
very nice vid, learned a few new thing there, thanks!
Well said, "any fish is a good fish."
:-)
Nice fishing
Love Lechlade .its just a great place to fish ,but i have noticed a lot of video's are being made from the bank where the normal angler is not allowed to fish from in front of the house,this is not a complaint just an observation,the drainage pipe that makes a nice flow from the corner.i suspect churns out some nice food for the fish to wait for, i know you can and have caught fish from all around the lake .but what i would give to be able to have an hour in that corner great video though 10/10
very well done video! Do you have any brook trout or lake trout over there in the uk? what about land locked salmon?
Hi piscator3444, Lechlade is a catch and keep fishery. We catch and release where we can but many stocked fisheries in the UK are catch and keep. Please have a look at our Yakima River drift boat fly fishing or even our fly fishing the river wye for grayling films as you will see that we release healthy fish when we can. Many Thanks. WTV
Further more, anyone who says they "chuck" a fly is unfit to hold a fly rod or experience the joy these beautiful fish bring to those lucky enough to share a few moments with them. Go get some power bait, a few cans of generic beer, flip on some country music and grab your spinning rod so you don't disgrace our beautiful, elegant sport anymore.
U have no idea what you are talking about. I am a river angler actually and an england international loch style angler.
U sir need to stop being a keyboard warrior..... tell you what, lets fish any water any location and see what happens.....if u win fairplay....if u lose then an apology would be nice. Take care and tight lines.
Looks Like Malcom Hunt.Manager at Manningford Fishery.
Go to a wild mountain lake and get a wild fish this size and then I would be impressed.
Tried looking on google maps and cannot find many mountains in southern England 😋
@@barrybigplums get in car then.....
@@carlhughes9584 drive 5 hours for a days fishing? Nah
Even so, many fish are wonderful food and can be taken with a limit of how many are taken.
Nice video. I subscribed look forward to more.
Outstanding
Hey mate ws wondering would it be any fun using a 4 weight 8ft rod on a reservoir just for something different i catch the limit every time sometimes to easily so would like a challenge what do you recommend
UkFlyFisher I tried a light 4 weight rod at bewl water in Kent from the boat.......if it's windy your in for a world of pain lol
Also what flies did you use to catch the big browns on ?? 🙏
I'd normally use small dries or a dark coloured snake (olive, black, etc). However, cat whiskers catch big ones as well
is Malcolm from manningford trout fishery
Thanks for the reply , is there any chance of a link to buy your Polaroids glasses from i looked on ebay etc , but a link to dealer would be great , mine are useless or it could be me lol
Great video folks......... I was interested in the praise placed upon the Costa 580's sunglasses range. I have checked up on their site but within this range there are many possibilities. Which specific model in this video are you referring to when stalking? Other than that keep up the good work. From a cold and snowy Norway it's great to be inspired at this time of the year and be reminded that spring and warmer days are out there somewhere
i'am interested in the glasses too. So please drop a comment for everyone to see when he responds back to you. If I should guess it seems like hes using a lens with blue mirror which is kinda odd since its mostly used for offshore fishing.
well said!!!
Hi, Thanks for your praise. Our last Lechlade films have been shot from from the regular bank. We particularly wanted to catch a Big Brown for this film but conditions on other parts of the lake just were not right for filming. I am back next weekend however and will be fishing in the main part for fun. I will let you know how i get on. Nicky
So what exactly were those glasses then? Make and model please. Looking to buy a decent set of polarized, as suggested, but what price range are the decent ones at?
Raymond Wilson if you don’t want to spend a fortune check out snowbee glasses on the snowbee website...about 50 pounds a pair.....it’s also worth getting a yellow/amber lense for when it’s grim and a blue/brown lenses for when it sunny
What Fly patterns are effective on this water....?
sorry for the late reply. for current working flys its best to contact the fishery direct. Thy will be more than willing to help. Tight Lines.
4 wt rods cannot put enough pressure on a big fish, causes lactic acid build up which requires a very long revival time and then the fish might still turn belly up. During the fighting process, a trout, like any athlete under physical stress, builds up a lot of lactic acid. ... Once a fish reaches “acidosis,” or a point where the lactic acid buildup is non-reversible, it is only a matter of time before it dies.
Would love that, but our days of traveling are long past, thank you anyway.
I was very surprised to hear that he was PURPOSELY using a 4 wt on such big fish. But then I was also surprised he was killing such a nice fish as well. I was yelling "Put it back! You're gonna kill it!!" But then he starts holding it by the gills so...yeah.
As a flyfisher in the US it's rare to see other ff's keeping trout, especially big ones. They arent even the good eaters. I will occasionally keep a few smaller Brookies or stocker bows for the fire, but a huge Brownie like that? No way!
Sure would love to fish that water tho. Gorgeous place!
So I guess the lactic acid doesnt matter much when the fish isnt being released.
Look at all the people in the comments giving it Barry big plums......the majority of trout fishing in the uk is put and take fisheries. Not everybody either has the time or local wild trout accessible to them. Pure joyless characters I see on every RUclips fly fishing video saying only your way is the right way. If you want to stand in waders with your two weight rod stalking wild brownies then big thumbs up to you but no need to be such a bunch of pricks to everybody else who doesn't conform to your standard of fly fishing
Peter rob wells you seem to either lack the intelligence to grasp my initial comment or you are continuing to be a prime offender.....let’s put it simply then pal.....why come to a video of stalking big trout at a big fish water if you don’t like it? Why click on the video in the first place if you clearly take issue with it? Nobody here cares about your opinion mate....you can attack as many people as you like who come to this video as they are interested in the subject matter and as I can see from the other people who have answered your grumpy elitist comments nobody else seems to care either. You make too many assumptions from comments mate....just because the guy here is at lechlade you assume he cannot fish Any other way....canned hunting in Africa is a poor example too those animals are drugged and get shot by people with lots of. Only no matter what, a trout can choose to take a fly or not. I have caught a few double figure trout at small waters but this does not mean I have not caught a multitude of different species in salt water as well as fresh water using multiple different methods....the bottom lime is it’s another big trout video with people spouting bollocks about what they think is the only correct way to fish....don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out pal
You can only catch stocked fish in puddles.......truth hurts? Plenty of wild trout in Wales and Scotland you clown.
' it's the adrenaline rush '..........😂😂
i love trout
Yes thats right, he is
I want to go there!!!!!!!
Hi, yes sure. I have actually emailed them to see if I can get the best link and maybe even a deal, but if you wanted to try them direct then google Costa sunglasses, as I can't seem to be able to post weblinks here. It would be great if you could mention Wilderness TV, if you do go direct. I'll let you know if/when we hear back from them. They really are amazing glasses, I was amazed, Ben
Great place to fish. They are not that easy to catch. some of you obviously don't have a clue what your talking about. Well worth a visit
What kind of landing net is that?
Very interesting take on stalking big fish, clever and well presented, no indication as to what flies, and to leader type. you got it in almost perfect conditions so it will help the thirsty angler/non angler for a double figure stalked fish. A little more on tackle and flies would be helpful to those who choose to follow this path, but well done on what you presented. Not for me though , a bit sad really.
Alkistair
what rod is that?
' I physically shake '.........😂
fishing rules !! we are f...up :)
Not this fishing......this is fked up!
susan webster Hi Susan. We aim to make a wide variety of films that appeal to the wider Fly Fishing community. I fully understand if stocked lakes aren't your bag but we have also made quite a few films fishing for wild trout on rivers and wild trout still waters. I can insure you that Malcolm does know his stuff and is well respected here in the South West,for fishing stocked lakes and Rivers. Great to hear you had a good laugh, we will try and keep you laughing in future films. Tight lines. Nicky WTV
I know this is an old film but can anyone tell me why these stocked fisheries are catch and kill and catch and release is not allowed at all?
And please understand, I get they're stocked fish and that they can't breed.
It looks like a lovely way to fish and i I'd love to give it a go but I really don't think I could kill one! For me, watching a fish swim away is the finest sight in angling.
is there anywhere in england that your not fishing for stalked fish in a pay to fish park?
Plenty of great wild trout fishing in rivers
I would have loved to see the fish swim away but if it's put and take then what else can you do but I prefer to fish catch and release and some waters offer that along with big double figure fish such as those.
Hi Colm. We like to return fish when we can. These fisheries do offer great eating trout. If you do have to kill it we make sure it doesn't go to waste. Tight lines mate.
+techsecmedia Thanks I understand and tight lines.
what about smelts?
Well, it's the UK, a stocked pond, with cut lawns all around, and no doubt you pay a bit to catch stocked fish. It's fine, but to call it anything other that what it is is at best ridiculous.
Chasing browns on avg of 10 lbs with a 4 wt? Bahaha...what a blast
What a load of old tosh. He’s fishing in a restricted area at the end of the owners garden, where unsurprisingly, a lot of fish gather! This is barely one step up from a fishing game my 3 year old has that involves a plastic rod with a magnet on the end!
Maaike Cox it is Stillwater fishing and definitely the wrong type of guy to pick (this dude is totally wrapped up in his own little world that he is special when he’s just confined to Stillwater fishing) it is a sport and difficult at that but it is difficult at that just this is showing you a very specific example of easily biting fish and fed and built up in stock fish farms he just needs to expand his fishing to wild trout and actually go to different places rather than thinking he’s some big shot in this Stillwater fishery (but don’t think all Stillwater fishing is easy because it’s not) just this is such a bad example 🤦🏼♂️
Lol 😂
Hi David Brittaine, sorry its taken a while to get back to you. I will have a chat with Malcolm and get the information for you. He is fishing a competition tomorrow so it could be the end of the week. If I forget please just drop me an e-mail through our website. You tube won't let me leave my mail address. Tight Lines. NIcky
For good fishing glasses have a look at optilabs on the web.
Costa polorised sun glasses start at £175.00....?
They are not cheep but are good. You can get other brands that work well also. Tight Lines.
I think that fishing for stocked fish is definitely the way forward. Its sustainable and gives the natural stock a chance. Its good for business and adds to the economy. Wild fishing is great in areas where there are an abundance of fish. But it seems a shame to fish for (salmon and sea trout) where i live. They are like a natural heritage and have been spawning in the local small rivers for thousands of years. Even catch and release here seems unfair. It bothers me that people poach/fish/kill the natural stock, when there is absolutely no need for them to do it.
Its a shame that part of this video is filmed from an area of the lake not open to the public.
c & r right?
Too big to eat. Put back so the she can make more trout. Pls dont kill them. No reason to do so.
Bill Whelan Hi Bill thanks for your mail. This is a triploid trout so is unable to bread. The lake is stocked as a catch and take fishery, and the trout is lovely cold smoked.
Buddy you ever had and experience with charcoal butter and lemon? Its fantastic on big trout steaks. Every reason to eat it
WHY would you have to keep this fish? Is a photo not good enough?
Big fish but not the thrill of catching a rainbow in fast water. I would catch and release in this environment probably, not necessary but 6 to 8 pound trout are better eating. Nice opportunities to stalk trout nevertheless.
This is my dream:(
No reason to kill those fish. Practice catch and release, preserve the fishery, enjoy the fish another day.
It’s a catch and kill venue
Why kill a creature of that size. You can't eat it so why not return it unharmed to the water . Does it matter if your estimate of 18lb is slightly out. I would never kill any large brown trout - last year I had a lovely circa 6lb brown off Rutland water and it was really great to see it swim off unharmed. IMO anglers would get far more satisfaction by seeing large inedible fish swim off unharmed than banging them on the head.
It isn't really a challenge anymore and nothing particularly skillful about this type of fishing.
I was gonna say you should use at least a 6 weight, but I guess if you're gonna kill em all... 😐
This was a catch and keep fishery. Thanks for watching.
i wuda put em back
this probably a fish farm u catch what u keep can't release it back.
1980
Okay Folks. First of all, this fish will be a triploid and will be sterile - no babies!! second of all you need to get your heads around the importance of wild fish and looking after this valuable resource and farm reared fish which are bred for stocking and catching. If you think that all fish should be returned as some sort of being nice to animals thing then you shouldnt be hooking them in the mouth and pulling them into a net, a bit hypocritical eh?
If keeping the fish it should be despatched quickly. If returning a fish treat it gently with wet hands and dont take it out the water if possible. you can get great photos laying the fish down your forearm on top of the water. im sure this guy will steak this and eat it like salmon. It will taste just fine. Focus your criticism of non catch and release on people who needlesly kill wild fish and educute our “catch and releasers” to handle the fish correctly.
Fishing Scotland great comment here mate......spot on.....the catch and release humane crowd can kid themselves all they want there is an element of cruelty by hooking a fish in the mouth in the first place
Many years ago I owned a commercial trout fishery called Rainbow lake in the Cotswold water park, after intense pressure from the fly fisherman we introduced a catch and return policy.. heaven forbid .I saw fly fishermen unhook there trout drop them on the bank and flick them back into the water with the toe of there boot...also they would throw trout back in the water when ten feet up a bank...our rule was barbless hooks and then gently return the fish to the water reviving it slowly.
A pre stocked lake can support up to 100 trout per acre, my lake was 10 acres so would support around a thousand trout...when fish have been caught and returned to the water a few times( should they have survived the experience) ..they become hook shy and almost uncatchable...so the fishery owner ends up with 150 fish per acre which the lake cant substain with natural food.. and the fish start to loose weight and look scrawny which upsets the anglers. .so he introduces a none catch and return policy....with me so far..... now with regard to the huge brown trout in Lechlade most trout over 10lb would die if returned to the water after fighting for its life through exhaustion let alone how the new angler to our spor returns it...as for skill factor catching these huge fish...when hooked you have got to land your prey and that requires great skill...in my humble view................................Mike Jones.
That is absolutely right. In the beginning of my flyfishing I sometimes went to a simulair c&r trout stocked pond. Man the trout I sometimes caught had 5 tiny little flies in the mouth!! with really really thin fluorocarbon ends. Wich al lot of fishers secretly used because these fish had seen every fly there is.So to catch these very stressed fish you needed way to weak and therefor thinnest tippets. Anyway it made me change my mind about Catch & Relaease in stocked ponds anyway. Also lots of half blind and zombie fish.Rotting alive by contact of mens hands......The rules where btw only to touch/grab the fly and keeping the fish in the water.Well I could. But Ive seen lots of guys quickly grab the trout anyway.The owner was very stricked on rules but he could not oversee everything ofcourse.
Mike Jones sky
My local fly fishery spring hill in tumbridge wells has a mixed catch and release ticket. You catch and kill 4 and then catch return 4 so there are always new fish coming through the lake. I enjoy catch and release fly fishing and I always take extra care to release the fish in the net and use barbless hooks. I have fished one lake which is primarily catch and release and the fish were in a shocking state as you would expect. There is a stunning little fishery in Surrey called freshman which does the best catch and release fishing I have experienced they have tons of water moving through the lakes and have about half of the anglers doing catch and keep. It saddened me to read your comment about the anglers kicking the trout back in the lake.....I always take an extra minute to make sure the fish recovers
People from outside the UK must think this all we have in the UK. Actually apart from Southern England, Britain is probably one of the better places to flyfish for wild trout in the world. There are so many rivers and wild lakes, especially in Wales and Scotland. You can catch some big wild browns in some rivers and lakes and then there's searun browns ( our steelheads. ) I find this video embarrassing. He seems like a novice. I'd been excited with that fish if I was 14 but I've matured a bit!!
Fair enough it's a catch and keep fishery, but, 18lb+ brownies is a specimen in anyones standards. Should be returned to the water
Look at this 'guide' .......he probably has not ever caught a wild fish in his life......talking all this nonsense like a 'pro' how to catch a stocked trout in a puddle.....lol......who on earth would be THAT bad at fishing that they would need a guide for this?? Literally in tears laughing here......
susan webster wow your opinion is rather a sad one. You assume because i did this film i dont fish for wild fish on rivers.....you are wrong. And i suggest you keep quiet before you know exactly what you are talking about.
Lol I know Malcolm personally and he manages a stretch of the river Avon... so yes he is an expert and catches as many wild fish as he does stocked.
@Jonathon Roberts its people like you who are not helping the industry. Grow up and get a life.
@Jonathon Roberts at no point did I say i was a guide!.... i guess my river fishing and england loch style cap means nothing then. You are just another keyboard warrior who has nothing better to do.
If you dont think this is right then best you come and talk to me and we can discuss my 30yrs of fishfarming and fishery management then. And we can put this to rest.
Btw please dont write swear words on a public post just remember kids can read this.
Fish looks redicu
'wilderness' TV? What is wild about this fishing??! This artificial fishing is an absolute joke and not sporting at all. Huge obese fish that are hungry and naïve and easy to catch in a tiny lake. There are plenty of wild lakes and rivers with wild gamefish in UK.........why this?!
they are to to expensive
Killing 20lb browns. Seriously not impressed.
LOL, a managed fishery where trout grow to 20lbs - what a joke. I'd rather catch a 6" wild trout over these artificially large, trapped in a puddle specimens, where you have to kill the fish. This is as bad as the "hunts" they have in South Africa where they're on a managed, fenced in, private reserve where the animals are baited and the "hunters" sit in a comfortable blind overlooking the bait, with a perfect angle, about 20 feet away. Wow, what skill! This is a disgrace to the sport.
I agree, these are bad fishermen
Why did you kill the fish. I fish 8 times a year without killing jist one fish
most trout fishing in the UK is put and take. they are not allowed catch and release and have to kill all fish. very few trout ponds there allow catch and release.
josh young You don't know shit........lots of wild fishing in UK, were its nearly always catch and release..........just not much in south of England which you seem to think is whole of the UK! Idiot.
Hi Luiz. We fish 3+ times a week and take fish to eat maybe once month. They make great food and being stocked lakes means less wild fish are taken. Tight Lines. Nicky WTV
Our local reservoir does catch and release for members and for day tickets. No one seems to mind
Stalking wild trout is what true anglers do , plus fish food is expensive , what a joke
Stop talking