Good day....been following your videos for quite some time......have you fished any South Korean Bamboo tenkara rods?? I am currently stationed over here and have found a store with some pretty nice bamboo tenkara rods in 3 pieces at a realitive price....not quite as compact as a dragontail but still pretty nice.....i have a 9 footer and an 8 footer......they vary from 7' all the way to 12 maybe 13 as well....at least in bamboo.....great action and fairly durable......if you direct message me id be more than glad to send you a couple of rods at no cost....one trout fisherman to another :)

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Was that band/wall of rocks a fish trap? I've seen Native American fish traps that look like that. They would close the upstream part and dip the fish out with a net. Not saying it's from the olden days but a recreation?

The creek looks nice but with a solid bottom and few movable rocks I’m guessing there’s not a lot of food there and therefore not a lot of fish.

sweet!

Five trout in a couple of hours is usually a good day for me! Another enjoyable tenkara vid. Thanks!

I know exactly how you feel. I am grateful for any time that I get to spend working up and down creeks and rivers. Just being out is the purpose... catching fish is a reward. But I do get excited for a particular river when I have spent time and energy on Google maps, and planning on how to get there, etc. There was one day I spent 8 hours on the river and caught 70 fish! Another time, I spent 6 hours catching nothing until the last 30 minutes where I caught 10. Yesterday, I spent 5 hours with only 4 fish... but two of them were 22", so that was a huge reward. I'll still take an 8 hour day on the river not catching anything, to a day spent at work.

Merci pour la video et BRAVO good job guys

I fish this stream about a dozen times during the year but I do better lower down at the first access point. Yes, almost all the fish are browns with the occasional rainbow. No brookies. A few of the browns will run 10-12 inches.

What a beautiful little stream. I my younger days I would walk streams with my fly rod. I can't do that for very long. I get tired and sometimes short of breath. But I still like to fish. so give me a beautiful lake to sit at and fish I am happy.

Beautiful scenery, a gorgeous rocky stream, nice weather, and multiple brown trout. Could be a whole lot worse than that. Much to be thankful for. Thanks for sharing your experience Tristan!

Gotta be central Oregon

I've been watching your channel for years because you like to fish similar waters that I like to fish, small pocket water streams. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when one of my favorite home streams popped up in your video. That is the first stream I ever fished in Oregon.

16:53 you are clearly on the LOG about it ;) Beautiful creek, interesting geology---the rib of stone reminded me of a fish trap?

Very interesting. It looks and sounds like a keiryu rod so would cast better with a beadhead. Either that or a heavier level line weight for unweighted flies. Your comments at 16:50 about its casting abilities are really good insights into its design - it does sound like a keiryu that needs a weighted bait or fly. But even so it should flex more in the tip and be accurate in the casting plane. You mentioned the talon mini and Nissan pocket both of which are superb in respect of casting accuracy and for unweighted flies , and while the Nissans tip sections are too light for weighted flies the talon mini can be used for both unweighted or lightly weighted flies (due to its mix of glass with carbon).

Flows over ancient lava flows? Or if granite based a little on the infertile side, brooks and bows may not tolerate the chemistry Worth trying though

Beautiful stream.

You could have gone a few miles to the west and you would have caught a lot more fish. Thanks for the videos!

That certainly was some skinny water, which you did well on. Eastern Oregon is beautiful country, lived there for 8 years. Thanks, and enjoy.

Hey not sure if you noticed but right after the 14 min mark in the video their appears to be a shadow of a spooked fish swimming down stream right in front of your legs not more then 5-10 seconds after you were saying you needed to catch one more fish and you were giving yourself a little self motivation speech about persistence, perseverance, and dogged determination 🤣Absolutely perfect comedic timing right there! That gave me a good solid laugh on this cold rainy Montana morning. Another great video and real world rod review, Thanks!

Beautiful creek and area but it did not look like good trout habitat at all, too few good pools, hard bottom etc. One fish every twenty minutes is pretty good for a creek like that.

Thank you for another beautiful stream and for another insightful rod review. I can’t help wondering if perhaps the brown trout haven’t completely out-competed and replaced the brooks and rainbows. It’s been known to occur across much of the East.

How do you find places like that ?

Would changing to a different fly might have made a difference ? Beautiful stream .

such a beautiful area

All good Tristan, a bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work 👍

Thall shall not KERSTRUMP in the stream.

By my count this is the third video featuring the Tanuki Pocket Ninja. Thanks for sharing it!

About the rod, i may be wrong but if i remember corectly it was designed to cast weighted flies to fish deeper and fast water pools. So it's not that it can't be fished with a kebari or a wet fly, it's just that it will perform better with a heavier one.

Angling doesn't require patience, it needs controlled impatience.

Thanks for another great video! As a novice Tenkara angler, I appreciate how you point out potential areas in the creeks as you are casting. As I watch, I try to anticipate spots that you' eventually choose to cast to! I also appreciate your reviews of various rods as I learn the sport.

Just get a talon mini and call it a day!

That's a perfect creek for the Dragontail Foxfire! My favorite rod for tight quarters fishing! I love fishing these little overlooked creeks thanks to your videos! A 10" wild trout on mini tenkara gear is more of a trophy to me than a 20" fish caught on western style gear on big water! Thanks again for what you do!

I’m hoping to get the tanuki ninja 240 the 7´10” rod good video

Wow great scenery and good fishing 🎣. Thx for video

Would a stiffer rod like that be useful for casting larger flies?

That strange rock formation at 13:30 almost looks like it might be the remains of a primitive fish trap.

All Brown Trout and your research said brookies and rainbows... do you think people have any real idea what they're catching? Or did someone just see spots and figured 'brook trout' and someone else just defaulted to rainbow trout since that's all they 'know'? Or was there really a wholesale change in the fish population of that creek?

streams like that running over bare rock can be unfertile depending on the type of rock, both in terms of fish and fish food. Maybe that was the problem.

"Tanuki Pocket Ninja" What a cool name!

Hi, any chance You will test some glass rods?

What part of oregon were you in?

Well Hi. I do like your show BUT it would be nice if you would try to use equipment that will be within the price range of normal financially pocketed watchers. I mean get real, who putting milk and bread on the table is going to be interested in purchasing a 275 buck rushing rod. Yes it ought to be a good rod, agreed.

You had me on edge great catching. I was like 999 lucky numbers

Really enjoy your videos, decided to check some of your older videos from 5 years ago and I have to say that the quality of the videos has improved tremendously. Keep it up and thanks!

I live in the Chicago area. I fish for trout in Wisconsin, and Iowa. I also fish the local streams around here for smallmouths and rock bass and retention ponds for largemouth bass and panfish. Oh yeah, Illinois has an inland trout season where some streams are stocked with catchable size rainbow trout but they don’t stay cold enough to support a trout population all year.

Could have been a rock is a good one too.

as usual an awesome video. I have watched you from the beginning (Your other channel as well) and love your work. my question...You show all of these new rods and by the end of the vid we have a great idea if how good they are. But I would like some info on the lines that you like and use. I have a couple of Tenkara rods and love them, but my "Normal" fly rods take all sorts of line, and a lot of brands just are not that good. if you have already made a video of this send my too it, if not can you mention some of your preferences?