Throw back for the holidays y'all. I've got a bunch of old random videos like these. Even from 5 - 6 years ago that have just been sitting because I felt like something was missing. I could release some here and there if ya want? Anyway, Merry Christmas to you all, happy holidays!!

On my worst days these videos bring me some peace. Thanks Mats, don’t ever stop

The style of your videos really makes me feel like we've been fishing buddies for years. Like I could drive up and start fishing beside you and we'd have stuff to talk about all day.

Hey Matt, I have a tip that I think will help your success. Especially when you are nymphing, when you see your bobber go under you should set the hook downstream instead of upstream. When the trout take your fly, their head is facing upstream, so by setting your hook upstream, you often times are ripping the flies out of the fishes mouth. It feels kind of unnatural at first, but I promise it will help you land more trout.

i found your channel at a real low point in my life, and you've given me a lot of peace over the years. thanks man, happy holidays & peace to you and yours

Matt, thats what fishing is all about, just chilling and enjoy peacefull time. Thanks man, blessings to your family.

Nice fish. Been a bugslinger for many years. Some simple things to remember and go by are you want to look for structure so remember," Rocks rock." Fish like shelter especially if theres sun on the water, so you want to look for shade so remember ," Made in the shade." Fish areas shaded by trees , rocks ...etc . fish the edges of the shaded areas before floating or nyphing into the shaded areas. Third, " Foam is home." Fish foam runs or around blobs of foam on the water. Look for seams as well. Seams separate the faster water from softer water. Float down the seam as they'll be in the softer water looking at the seam. They dart in to grab food in the seam and back to the soft water. Look at water depth and fish close before stepping in. So, Rocks, rock. Made in the shade. Foam is home. And look for those seams. Thanks for all the vids.

In the new year you should definitely do some more mountain camping and fishing videos! They're always my favorite ones🎣 🏞️

This video brought back some very fond memories. I fished the Walker River in Bridgeport 30 years ago. Fun times avoiding the cows in the pasture and the river. 🐂

It's nice to see you experimenting with styles you're not familiar with. I think that's one of the reasons i enjoy watching you so much; your joy in trying new things. I realize this is from several years ago, but I'm happy you're still experimenting. The underwater fishing you've done recently comes to mind. Hoping you never loose that aspect of your personality.

That heart to heart in the car were words spoken from a true addict. ❤ the vids and love the passion. You truly lead the 'Fisherman's Life'

Thr beauty of the places is mesmerising!

Lol, at the airport watching and realized folks thought it was a sultry type video I was watching at the bar!! So funny!!

Matt, this is by far one of my favorite videos of yours! So peaceful and it felt as if I was near by. Thank you. P.S. Love how you never try to be "know it all" like many others but rather share your learnings with us. Even though you are the best fisherman, from fresh to salty.

The tug is the drug!! That's how I explain fishing to people, sometimes it's the bottom sometimes it's a log but every once in a while it tugs back and drives me wild.

I love the trout fishing videos. I got into fishing because of you lol

Always love the trout fishing

Brings back memories.

13:30 “Hit it from the backside “ classic 😂😂🤣😂😭🤣

I hope I find better peace of mind with the help of your videos, thank you

The first fish was beautiful Matt. It looks so tasty, too bad about the size limit. At least you enjoyed the peaceful scenery. Thanks for sharing!

That clip of the cow made me giggle lol. I liked that

Bro like...your soul shines though with the efforts of your video creation, sharing and general self. Bless ya broski ✊️

I love your fish and camp videos

The cow just wants you to open a gate. They often associate people with food. Cool video

Easter Sierras in the Fall, no place better. Thanks Matts and merry Christmas

Don't know how many times I've thought conditions are perfect, setup is perfect, and then nothing. Fishing is fishing man, but your videos chill me the f out after an insane day. Keep them rolling.

The second half of the video….I know that place like the back of my hand. One of my favorite places on earth!

It’s raining currently, and all week, can’t go fishing. Internet is too shit to play video games, car just got towed to a mechanic, and I’m off for a whole week. Fishermans life uploaded so this is brighter end to my day. Thank you.

Anyone else laugh at 13:40 when he said he's gonna go round and hit it from the backside?

Finally some more fly fishing! Awesome video!

Your channel is my comfort food over these winter months here in Minnesota especially. Keep your lines tight!

You sure pick the right song to go with the background 👏

Matts: "I'm gonna fish until my pants fall off!" The Fish: Whoooa there buddy WTF?!!!"

Absolutely love your fly fishing videos I can’t wait for more to come

*see the notification immediately slides to watch the excitement of the fishing video, good luck to all of us*

Definitely one of my favorite videos! I absolutely love fishing the Owens as well as the rest of the Eastern Sierras.

Happy holidays so awesome to see you on this side of California haha 🎄🎄

Hey man I just want to say that I love you and when I can’t go fishing and get the itch to go, I’ll simply just tune to your channel and make me feel like I’m next to you fishing. Merry Christmas to you and your family!!

My brother and i used to go to Twin Lakes, not to far from there. Beautiful area...

I was lucky to spend time in Bridgeport, although it wasn’t for relaxing I was in the marine corps and we did mountain warfare training, back in the 80’s. Looks the same, but it’s more beautiful now then then. Was able to catch a rainbow with a string and Kbar, ate it raw🤮. Thanks for the throw back.

I got rained out today, so it's great to see one of your vids land. Thanks again!

My Fisherman's Life merch came thru just in time for the holidays. Thank you again Matts for reviving my love of fishing! This year was full of PBs all cuz i picked up the hobby again. So many memories and challenges ahead thanks to this guy right here. Happy holidays y'all.

Simpler life.....the BEST!! Keep posting the Fly videos/trips. IMO...much more strategic and calming than salt water fishing.

Those were some nice catches. I hate to say it , but that's why its called fishing and not catching ( haha). For me the best part is the experience of being out in nature, at peace, and some patience. Thanks for sharing the fun ! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !! 🙏🎄💗🎣👍

It's a beauty. Nice work.

That intro. Miss these kind of videos

double split shot on a small, shallow steam !!?? that's gutsy !! Nice video!

I really enjoyed this one. My dad and most of my brothers used to go up to Bridgeport every trout opening weekend for close to 30 years. I was fishing both sides of that bridge on the East Walker River every opening Saturday at sunrise for most of those. Man, it was cold! Not easy fishing but there are some really big fish in that river below the reservoir.

Hurts to see someone else living your dream. Good job Matt. I envy you!

God damn, that semi would’ve ended this fishing channel.. good to know you’re safe and you were able to upload the video 🙏🏻

This video felt like 14 minutes long. Time really flies when you're having fun. Great video

I was in a head on collision earlier this month so that opening scene nearly gave me panic a panic attack! Otherwise great video! I'm on team share old footage, tight lines brother!

Now your talkin! Merry Christmas!

That river is my old stomping grounds. Its where I cut my teeth learning how to fish for browns. It's good to see it again after moving away, even if it's only a video

“I like that boulder. That is a nice boulder.”

I've never experienced it this cold in Cali this time of year. Its low 30s even when the sun is shining. I get sooo cold heading to work at 5am

I always love hitting the bridge from the backside Yeeyee

Big fan of the freshwater fishing.

Love your videos and content . Been a fan for year's !! 🤙🎣 To me you are the OG catch and cook fishermen.

Love your videos always cheers me up on sad days

This is truly one of your greatest videos Matt. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you.

"Gunna go down the bridge and hit it from the back side" my man,well said

A note on floatant -- just work it into the dubbing on the body if you want to fish on the surface. When the floatant gets into the elk or deer hair, that hair will lose its natural float quality and it won't drift properly on top -- unless you want it to be just subsurface -- which sometimes works better!

Sometimes on those sunny days you can't beat a dry fly.

Very relaxing.

ayy the classic fishermans life theme

Man I live for these intros

i love when you post fly fishing videos!

I remember when you first start fly fishing. It’s cool to follow your progress! I love the eastern Sierras

The weird fish you caught was a chub. I use those as bait for big cutthroat trout!! Great video!!

It’s winter here cant do any fishing. But I been watching this guy fish making me itchy AF!

my holiday has been over for like three weeks now but i hope you enjoy yours!

Creek and river fishing is best done at dawn and sunset. The worst time to fish is when the sun has hit the water.

i love your videos, they are so relaxing

Awe hell yea, today's a good day when there's a camping video!

My favourite KZfaqr. I can just relate and live through this guys video. Keep it up!! Love from Australia

Had a truck hauling a livestock trailer do the same thing to me. Wild asf

I love your videos, I'm glad you were safe from a near auto collision.

I’m from Canada, hitting the ice hard lately but nice to see places I’ve never been and beautiful country great video!

Man I love you fishing videos ! Good learning videos+

One of my favorite vids you’ve done!

beautiful but delicate fish.

You never know how big your going to get when you're in uncharted waters, but trout fishing always brings you to the most scenic and peaceful.

Eastern Sierra's?" I used to fish there when I was a kid and enjoyed catching trout. I love those little creeks that seem like nothing would be in there, but chuck a fly and out they come.

Hey Matt, Its awesome how much better you've gotten at fly fishing!! My advice would be to just keep adding more weight than you think until you're hitting bottom about every third cast, and to ALWAYS set the hook downstream since the fish are faced upstream and you probably pulled the fly right out of their mouths a few times this video. Great video though and keep it up!

I've definitely thought the weeds were fish before, 🤣. Hell of a video, tight lines!

Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family, Matts. Livermoron here 👋. Del Valle regular since a young buck

Always stoked for your adventures Matts!

Honestly, I like the fail style videos as well. Where you go out and don't have non stop action. Because as a new comer to fishing... I can relate.. not a clue what I am doing, but learned alot from videos like these. If you only post the good videos, people think that is just an average day. Truth is, there are good days and bad days.. but only the good days are shown online. Until now.

love the river videos from ya! always a plus to the day when you post:)

Sure I love the older ones too! Merry Christmas 🎄 💝 JO JO IN VT 💕😄☃

Reminds me of the Kern River. I love that place

Your videos always make me happy

Twin lakes up there by Bridgeport has huge trout in it. Beautiful area! Great video!

Thank you for sharing!! Happy Holidays Be safe

Bro these videos are a classic!

You prob know this by now but that fish you caught around 25:45 was either a Common Creek Chub or a Dace. I love your content. Jealous of your life. But grateful for KZfaq and people like you who’s sense of adventure has outgrown the 9 to 5! Never stop exploring! If you’ve never been, check out the San Juan River in New Mexico. Epic fly fishing!

I was just thinking about how I wanted to see a camping video from you again and today I see this

The timing is incredible