after carefully examining the run tom tells us about how he plans to work the area to figure
out where the brook trailer holding so we're in a new river today i purposely didn't ask brady where
the fish are going to be i wanted to see what we can find out so we're at a nice good flowing
riffle here i don't know how deep it is the fish are generally going to be in deeper pockets
so i'm going to assume that there's a deep pocket below this riffle and then when it flattens out
and i'm just going to work through it first with a mouse here we know a mouse will work and it's
a good searching pattern and you can actually see the fish roll on it when they're interested
so we'll start with a mouse the fish could be in shallow i don't want to spook them
i don't even know how deep it is out there so i'll gradually wade out
see how deep it gets see if i can find a little bit deeper spot where the trout might be holding
once i get closer to those deeper spots i should be able to spot them but we'll see oh yeah
trying to keep side pressure on the fish because i don't want them to be hanging
directly downstream if i can that's when that hook pulls out so i'm trying to even though i'm leading
them over in a little bit faster water it's really not that fast and probably i should even though
this fish didn't take a run i'm going to get my line in here just to get it away from the net
you want to try to get that rod to the side that you're not pulling them straight upstream ideally
i'd want to get downstream of this fish but i don't want to wade through this water
and and spook other fish that might be in there nice female brook trout wow
very very nice fish
and in the water off she goes good job
thank you man hold on so it's one thing to know how to read the water
but you have to temper that with local knowledge in the conditions so in the spot i'm standing in
now or the water i'm fishing i would look at that slow foam line over against those alders it's a
nice current there you can see the bubbles so you know the food is drifting down there
but all the hits i've gotten have been out in this heavier water just below where i'm standing
oh
i literally just put this fly on i've been using a streamer and i just put a gurgler on and oh
just hammered first cast oh lost them oh that's barbless but you know something
this is so much fun these gurglers the mice they're just getting hammered by these big
brook trucks they love a big piece of meat on the surface gotta cast out and get another one
oh big fish oh look at that power oh it's coming at me reeling fast he's using this current
and on this five weight rod i've got both a five and a six here and they're perfect
for this place this is where you need to have a really good leader and i'm using 10 pound
1x
liter okay and getting his head up getting his head up
ah
this size that brookshire it's more than that it's unbelievable i'm getting my
fly out here some barber so it should pop right out there it is it comes out drop that
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