I’m an old man who’s fished a lot, his whole life. You, young man, are a really mature good fisherman. Hats off.

One cold looking summer

Thanks for being a good steward to the fish and for sharing those values with your viewers! Excellent video!

I appreciate you showing the reality along with your grateful attitude

Super Landschaft, super Musik und super Fisch.👍👍👍

People like you deserve 100k more subs then people like LakeForkGuy and Other googans, you make art. A huge like and a sub. Your first 2 minutes captivated me. Absolutely loved every minute, beautiful and chunky stealhead .

23:07 what a color!

4th season coming up for me! Thanks for sharing!

Well done, young man! Nothing like winter fishing: quiet beautiful country and water...sometimes some fish, too. Keep up the good work. Your video quality is improving. For master class instruction tune in on Catch Magazine videos by Todd Moen. He's the best and you're headed that way.

Good new video. I liked some of the drone shots. Always appreciate your concern for the fish. Keep getting out there and have a good year.

New sub. Your content looks great. Solo trips like this are the absolute best. If you do it, you know. If not, you can’t understand. But man, the peace and tranquility that comes from a day like this is priceless!! Keep up the good work.

Been waiting for the annual steelhead episode all these freezing days, just to remind me of those beautiful fall steelheading time... oh wait.... Nicely done. Congrats on another beauty 👍

Some awesome footage!!

Awesome footage!

Great video!

Great video man, timelapse of the clouds and sun through the forest was brilliant, love hearing the breakdowns and info on tackle and tactics, really enjoyed it from Ireland.

Keep up the great footage and steelhead fishing my man!

Looks cold out there man, respect for getting out! Love the film work on this video, very well done. You gained a new subscriber. Keep it up!

Steelheading! Great job, way to brave out the cold conditions and some tough days. On landing the fish- It's so tough with Steelhead; there's such a variety of factors. The things I try to do to reduce loss as much as possible: 1) Steelhead always fight to go upstream. Use it to your advantage! When you get a slow take (and I know exactly what you mean by the lethargic grabs) resist setting the hook. It might pull the fly a little further out from the fish's mouth, setting it more at the corner which can be bad during headshakes. I try to pinch down on my line to create "drag", which hopefully gives the fish some resistance - which it won't like - and hopefully try to run with the fly to sink it in. If it still is on, but not running, I'll slowly lift my rod up and toward the bank. Because the take is going to be downstream of you, lifting up and away sets the angle of the hook, hopefully, at a 90 degree to the fishes head and thereby getting the hook in better. 2) Rod discipline. Try to limit the bounce of the rod/rod tip as much as possible. It translates to line wobble which might goldilocks free the hook from the fish's mouth. 3) Landing the fish. Position yourself downstream, at the bank. With a super long two handed rod, I put the butt-section behind my neck and slowly move the tip of the rod toward the bank to bring the fly line to my hands. If the fish won't let you do it, then you haven't let it run enough yet. Let it run! There's fighting a strong, winter run, which will take at least a few minutes versus playing it out for 8+ minutes (which I'm sure we've all seen on the water) which is what I'm sure you were insinuating. Once I get the fly line to my hands, I gently guide the fish in to shallow water to tail it. 4) It's Steelheading, dude. They're anadromous fish that escaped bigger fish, sharks, whales, fishermen, disease, famine and all sorts of other bananas stuff the ocean threw at it. You're not fighting a bulldog lake trout that was top dog its whole life! I lose about 1/3 of my fish fighting them; it's just a fact of life.

Under the wires! Always good! How bout a bit of color on that rod tip so we can see the take ? Nice work

Great video man! Keep it up

you had me at the french toast breakfast.. well done my man..

You are out with my family in CR

Nice steelhead! What is your fly fishing gear setup? Can u do a gear video? Are you fishing dry line or sinking line? I’m looking to getting into fly fishing for steelhead. Not sure what gear to use or if a dry line setup would work for swinging streamers for steelhead. I’ve only got a 6 wt rod. It’s an Orvis Hydros 9’6”

Just found your channel man, love the video! What camera do you use for your videos?

On your GoPro you turn it on right before you get a bite but how is it recording for a while before you turn it on? Awesome fish btw

Nice. What state?

What river is it?

What state is this

what rod and line are you using?

Nice video, you gotta dump the podcast in background.....very distracting and doesn't flow in my opinion. Otherwise, 2 thumbs up!

Great video!