Yukon Mike
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Check out this short video.
http://vimeo.com/85147880
Mike
http://vimeo.com/85147880
Mike
Shark week? No, brown trout week.
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Dave Sikorski
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That's downright awesome!
1 week til I'm in the everglades trying to get snook, tarpon and reds to do the same thing!
-D
1 week til I'm in the everglades trying to get snook, tarpon and reds to do the same thing!
-D
NZ Browns are fun.
SCOTT SALZER
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I'm thinking Mini r/c helicopter hovering the fly/line over the water with some type of quick release mechanism of the fly line after the take! LOL
Yukon Mike
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How 'bout at helium balloon on a tether dragging your fly? Same idea as baloon bobbering live bait for sharks, but floating in the air.
Mike
Mike
No need for drones or ballons, in the last minute of the film you see the fish hook itself and take line. Fish on ... let the games begin. In all of the footage it looks to me like its the same fish in the same location.
Lou Tisch
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Very cool video. I have had some luck fishing damsels but not as good of luck as that video. I took a half dozen classes from Jason Borger (Brad Pitt double & consultant for River Runs Through It) and his Father, Gary Borger and got a great Damsel pattern & materials. It's amazing how many damsels are on the river at times...North Branch & Main Branch of the Au Sable.
Lou
Lou
That's not just a New Zealand phenomenon, and not just with browns. I was fishing a favorite hike-in brook trout pond last year and found fish cruising a lee shoreline sipping caddis flies. After taking 3 or 4 fish on a small caddis pattern, I spotted a larger trout porpoising out of the water.
A dozen casts and three fly changes later the fish was still rising--big splashy rises where the fish would rise vertically until its whole length was out of the water and then crash down on its side--and steadfastly refusing my offerings. I finally gave up fishing to it and just snuck the canoe close enough to see what it was chasing, and saw the damn fish snag a damsel in mid air, then do the same thing again. I never found a fly that would get a look. I tried a couple of damsel patterns I use for bass, but this fish did NOT want a damsel fly sitting on the water. It wanted one hovering about 4 inches above the water.
I eventually left the trout still rising, because there were other fish to catch, and they were still taking the caddis flies. They were all a lot smaller.
A dozen casts and three fly changes later the fish was still rising--big splashy rises where the fish would rise vertically until its whole length was out of the water and then crash down on its side--and steadfastly refusing my offerings. I finally gave up fishing to it and just snuck the canoe close enough to see what it was chasing, and saw the damn fish snag a damsel in mid air, then do the same thing again. I never found a fly that would get a look. I tried a couple of damsel patterns I use for bass, but this fish did NOT want a damsel fly sitting on the water. It wanted one hovering about 4 inches above the water.
I eventually left the trout still rising, because there were other fish to catch, and they were still taking the caddis flies. They were all a lot smaller.
Brandon Yuchasz
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That video is amazing. The very first trout I saw rise was a nine in brook trout on a small stream here in the UP is was chasing a "dragon fly" and jumping straight out of the water doing it. Not a damsel but the smaller blue variety that I have never bothered to learn the name of. I went back to the campsite got my rod and real and a meps and shortly after was eating that same bookie fried in oil over the campfire. That was the first trout I had ever caught and its still the most vivid image of him jumping out of the water.