@@genedavella9817 depends how fast you can hike but ballpark is 3-4 hours. I usually do all my hiking early, get in deep, then fish back as the morning warms up.

Right on, I've fished Tinnemaha but never Goodale or Taboose, I'll have to check them out! I'm just glad to have wild trout so close to LA, even if they are on the smaller side. Never caught a musky before, it's on my bucket list!

yes, it's pretty far back up in there

sure

you know it!

thank you!

Amazing! curios to hear what you think about it, I love mine.

That's awesome, I love it when they're eating dry flies!

@@HookontheFly it’s really exciting! I had a few jump out of the water to bite them, lots of fun dispute the tiny fish! Hopefully they’ll survive long enough to grow into big trout!

@@philr3510 If we get a wet winter this year like we did last year then they are gonna grow grow grow!

thanks! yes, we were surprised when we saw it, very nice fish

Deep Creek is on my list! I need to explore the SB mountains more, everyone keeps telling me there's a lot of great water there that I need to fish.

A cool Fall would be great but I'm not holding my breath. That's not me on the fiddle, I play several instruments but fiddle ain't one. every once in awhile i get together with the guys and we just play a ton of stringband music and I record it all so i can use it on my episodes. Then other times I just record in my studio with what i have and what i can play, like banjo and guitar and bass, or piano and mandolin or something. I love combining the music and the fishing, stoked you do too!

Also any small tips on flys to use up there 😃

No, this is in a different part of the mountains

a pheasant tail and a parachute adams are all you need anywhere in the san gabriels

It's a special place for sure

5 wt

Thanks for watching!!

yup, i think a lot of people don't like to h ike in there either, they stick to the roads so they miss out on a lot of the great spots deeper in

😁he let himself go!

we be jammin' !!

Howdy Mike, stoked you like the video and the music! There may be some fish in this stream in the Fall, but the water will be much lower and much warmer by then so there will be less oxygen for the fish and they have a higher chance of dying after being caught. I'm going to wait until temps start to consistently drop and the water levels rise again, which means when the weather is colder and we get more rain. So probably not until winter. I have another video from this stream coming out tomorrow that I shot back in early June, and that was the last time I've fished it because it was already starting to get too hot even then.

@@HookontheFly sweet, looking forward to the next one!

@@MO_Lives thanks dude!

It's been really hot and lots of people have been fishing the area this year. you have to get up super early before the water warms up and find someplace that is off the beaten path to catch any fish right now. I'm just waiting til Fall when the weather cools off, and the fishing pressure is a little less. til then it's kern and Owens for me.

that's where the bigger fish were

oh wow that must've been awesome. glad you liked it!

me too, small stream is the best!

I'm thinking about it. Just spent a whole weekend fishing the new glass and I'm now more in love with it than ever.

I have many glass Rods from 2 -8 weight The vintage Fenwick from the 70’s are probably the best. Fastest best balanced glass rods ever made

@@brianrobinson1975 you find them mostly on ebay?

Yes, the auction site has them but not as many as 5-8 years ago. Still worth looking for them. I like the first generation Fenwick Feralites the best (1962-1972), but second generation nice too, a little faster action. The handle grip on the first generation are my favorite cork grip of all time, nice big diameter and widest in the front half. Favorite models include FF70, FF75, FF79, FF80, and for second generation, FF705, FF755, FF756, FF805, FF806, FF807. The models over 8’ long get a little heavy and bulky, but FF84, FF85, and FF856 are great casters. All Fenwick fly rods of that era had solid stainless steel guides. There were some 4-piece models too, a little slower and full flex action.

@@barry4fish Excellent, thanks for the info! I'll keep an eye out

totally agree🙌

they work great in that kind of water!

crazy how these big fish live in this small water!

right on!

yes, with a bead head

Thank you! Yes, it's very serene there, like an oasis in the desert. Glad you liked the tunes, not everyone is a fan of the banjo😆

dunno, never fished it. but they stock the hell out of it so I know there's fish there

san gabriel mountains!

@@HookontheFly I understand its in Cali. I live in La Canada and would like to catch some trout nearby. Do you have the name of the river?

@@erickim9682 can't give you the name of this place (then everybody would go and there wouldn't be any fish left!) but lytle creek is in your area and has trout.

los angeles!

i haven't been there in ages, i need to do a video there!

@@HookontheFly please do brother ! I just always feel like there’s no native trout in there no more because of the people but a buddy of mine caught a 2lb there on the side of the road lol in late September 2023

@@egld2020 oh wow, yeah i think there's still wild trout further up the creek but a 2 lb trout off the road is definitely a stocked trout

@@HookontheFly ima give it a shot bro lots of people up there during this time only best time is going during the week

@@egld2020 let me know how you do

West Fork hasn't been fishing as good since they've been doing construction on Cogswell. Did you check out my last one I did on the San Gabriel Mountains? it's rad! Got one on the Owens River dropping next week as well.

@@HookontheFly I personally fish somewhere near by can’t burn my spot for the same reason people ruin things . I’ll check it out and subscribe as well for replying 🤙🏻 like the content as well🤙🏻

@@HookontheFly any info on lytle creek fishing ?

@@egld2020 awesome, thanks!

@@egld2020 no i haven't been there in awhile

no

luckily no one has broken into my car while ive been fishing

thanks, it's The Mckenzie in Oregon, it's amazing.

Isn’t it beautiful? I was pretty stoked!

@@HookontheFly You deserve to be stoked. 😎🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️

​@@user-io1bo5gr2m...it's been over 40 years for me... I remember 5-7 inch males with really profound long lower jaws with really dark red stripes on them...they almost looked prehistoric... Around 1984-5 I seen a guy catch one at Huntington Beach pier... looked just like the fish in the San Gabriel River tributary I used to fish....I caught a Brook Trout up past the Bridge to nowhere once... just saying...I really enjoyed watching this... I used to hike back to the waterfall in Fish Canyon when it was a dangerous hike late 70s thru the 80s...✌️ Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school California

Thanks! That snow melts and flows through those rocks and keeps the water pretty clean and clear. It's got some great blues and greens for sure.

yeah it was really special, never caught one so mature and colored up like that. it was a real treat.

Welcome aboard! gotta give love to the LA fishing community

thanks wrote it, recorded it and played it myself!

yup, started the day nymphing cause it was bluebird, then when the clouds moved in for the afternoon it was lights out on the streamers.

@HookontheFly just got back from the channel slammed Lakers on midges and picked up a dozen or so cutts off the some spots on the lake. Gotta love that park man..saw a bear walking through the west thumb ON THE BOARDWALK

@@brettshamblin3180 Awesome! still on my bucket list to see a bear while fishing.

you know it!!

thanks buddy! my next one is owens river gorge, you're gonna love it!

🤣 it is hard !