in this video we're going to share with you the tips and tricks you need to know to catch redband
trout my name is Troy Miller of Adventure Oregon I'm here at Harriman Springs Resort
about to take out a pontoon and we're going to go fishing for redband trout on Upper Klamath
Lake ah looking forward to it be a great day beautiful start to a morning that's for sure
Hey you guys! Thanks for joining me on another journey. Today
we're in Oregon and we're with Adventure Oregon doing some trout fishing so if you
need a trout fishing guide check out the link below. If you're new to the channel, I'm Wayne
and April's sick today unfortunately. So sit back, relax and enjoy the journey!
look how clear the water is
mosey in real slow but as you look on the surface in the water if you come up here at about
another 20 or 30 feet you'll have a good chance to see some
it's not uncommon to see them upwards of 10 pounds the record out of here is 26 pounds
there's a redband rainbow trout
yeah hello guys and this is the wildlife refuge out there as the marsh
and that's why this area is you know so important as a national wildlife refuge
there's so many nesting birds that come here annually they lay their eggs raise their young and
they either stay here or sometimes they fly out for the winter and come back in the spring a lot
of habitat a lot of wildlife here it's just a great place a great place to enjoy great place
to relax a couple of pelicans about to fly by oh they saw some fish did you see how they they
ducked down like that they knocked down like that yeah you saw oh yeah you know it's kind of
like rubber neck and back like oh did you see that fish back there like show us what you caught yeah
we're gonna get a picture before we let him go awesome awesome this is my grandpa's old pole
he served in General MacArthur's Honor Guard oh really he's a pretty pretty badass old guy man
cool dude how we uh rigged these worms up yeah sure let's do it let me check it out
so basically we'll call this a Klamath Lake rig you know we start with a number 10 bait holder
hook the same pretty hook it right above the patch try to follow the worm along of course
they don't like to cooperate yeah i always get a little pissed off with someone stabbing me yeah
so get as much of that hook buried into the worm as possible hopefully completely hidden so you
don't really see that yeah yeah they hook anymore to do this you'll neither need a a hypodermic
needle or you can buy a worm pumper how are you doing i've never seen this before yeah so i want
to show you should we hit it right in the head just pumping around a little bit of air okay
now we just want to make sure that's floaty see that got that it's like his own bobber yeah
that keeps the worm up where the fish can see it instead of down into the grass and into the mud
and we just take a little split shot number six line that egg sinker is stopped by that split shot
but it's free to move it's a little slack in the line the fish will swallow it we give them a lip
we could just take it right out but if we get some a little deeper we just cut the line real close
to where the hook is and now these hooks will dissolve in about two months a lot of people think
barbless is better if you get a fish deep even with a barbless hook and you try to pull it out
it'll cause the fish to bleed yeah by leaving the hook in a very small hook by the way leaving it
in and clipping the line as close as you can it's like the fish has a pierced nose or something he's
driving around you know the piercing and then a couple months it just dissolves and goes away
you know and the alternative is you know to pull it out and make them bleed to death
yeah and i think this is a better way all right so what we're gonna do we're just gonna cast
this out real gentle and make sure we keep that worm alive and keep it floating good
give myself a little bit of room just kind of lob it out there just like that
and again we'll keep a little bit of slack in the line how long does that air stand the the worm
like that long time you pump them up right and you don't damage the worm too bad when you put
it on the hook then at least for a few hours how long you've been fishing these waters um probably
about 35 years okay since i was eight years old that's been a lot longer than we all want to admit
so do you have your drag set yeah yeah yeah because these big fish man
like that and if your drag is too tight they'll snap your line off because we're only using six
pound line so we gotta go live tackle or else they'll you know they'll see it and get spooked
the main thing is i want to make sure that line
stays a little loose the boat starts to drift into a position where it's tightening up the lines
and that gives the fish a little time if he first bites the worm
that before he feels the hook or feels anything cool and notices something's going on
right you know he gets a chance to really swallow that worm before he changes his mind about it
that's what i'm talking about a little bit of fishing action finally
it's okay take us a little one to get off first pretty
oh
yeah maybe a pound and a half i don't think he's quite
15 inches normally they got to be 15 inches to keep
yeah yeah right back in the water keep them alive and to live another day this does the
least amount of damage to the fish when we just clip it off there you go nice little fish there
yeah that's not bad at all there he goes nice Discover Klamath is the most vocal advocates for
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