what i've been doing which is working very well you feel the hit and you move the rod upstream
like this and that is your hook set now there's another hook set that they got and if you watch
my hands it is this i got my line here you pull back and move up again i'll show you when the fish
hits you pull back and move up that's called a line a lot stripping set line strip set yes
pull back and move your rod upstream and that will set the hook tight if you lift straight up
you pull it out of its mouth so you want the the fish is grabbed
your your fly turned and started moving downstream that's why the sweeping action puts it back in
its mode if you lift up you're gonna pull it out of its mouth very important your hook set
there's one there we go fish on good man good man
and we've taken it in a pretty good spot here haven't we where we got some room to fight it yeah
yeah we got we got lots of it looks like a pretty good fish yeah it is it's uh got some weight to it
good man how did it feel when they hit randy very late very lazy hit it come
up and and almost like it grabbed the tail of the fly and then it was a slack like it
come forward on it and then hit it hard probably swallowed it and turned just ambushed the bait
beautiful now this one hasn't come up yet so that indicates to me that it's a big fish yeah it's a
usually indicates a good-sized fish that the
smaller ones tend to fight hard and run but they come up on the surface
beautiful
and we have that nice very nice fish here's the current yeah along with it beautiful oh i like it
excellent there's a trough drops off it's kind of like a hump just about
the natural lay of that that hill in front of us that point
and then it'll uh deepen over there deep in here and then it fades out back into that shoreline so
oh this is a decent fish actually yeah now i'm i'm i'm having a little bit of trouble now seeing him
and he's going to run so i'll get him on this side of the boat now
i just want to kind of get out of this boilie currently i agree try to land them and i'm
going to swing around and circle them just to get them get them above the boat again okay
the biggest thing is when they get below the boat the fly will tear out
uh you see fish in here that hardware anglers catch and they they force them and rip their
mouths there we're good now this guy's just coming up now one he's gone back down to the bottom again
that is a beautiful fish well this this is actually quite a nice fish yeah now would
that be above average or average ah that's a little above average okay very gentle with him
he's he's in good shape the water is very cool he there he's i can feel him on my my hand here he's
he's gonna take off so lovely specimen male brook trout
beautiful now today there was a need for eight weight rods and i thought that might be a little
bit heavy but i was sure surprised because of the size of the fish we definitely needed them another
need that i had was was that of a large arbor reel reason being i had two fish run directly
at me and i had to i had to wind in as fast as i could and a large arbor allows you a faster line
retrieve than you would with the old spindle type so a large arbor reel is definitely what you need
now today we had to go with sinking tip lines to get the fly down quickly the current is very
fast out there so you must get it down as fast as you can and i was using a type 3 type of sinking
tip which means it sinks between six to eight inches per second now the line that i have on
here is called the quad line and it has four different uh tips that you can attach onto it
so it's very convenient and and in the packet that it's got the four tips you get all these different
lines to choose from and you can face any fishing conditions that you want so the one that i wanted
was a type 3 sinking tip for targeting the trophy brook trout i recommend a minimum eight weight
whatever you're uh comfortable with steelhead fishing is probably the perfect match for the
brook trout rod and reel size lines tend to differ a little bit but uh i would for the beginner a
minimum eight weight just to handle these for the experienced fly fisherman that wants a real
good um fight experience a seven weight can be used but below that you're just
you're going to be wrestling with these fish and probably not winning
yeah randy called it he says we're going to take a fish at this corner
and what we're what we're shooting at is these points where the current breaks across them
your little food channels i can just see them family
now ready
okay that's okay that's okay i still got it yeah i don't like chasing him we didn't we didn't
we didn't touch him he's gonna be coming up in a second here i'm gonna and we got him and this
is a good fish again that's a hog that is just incredible i love brook trout and this is the best
brook trout fishing i've ever had shorter blunter head and you know very very pretty fish little
dark still colored up from the fall probably and probably a little older fish and away if she goes
you