Creek Trout Fishing Essentials | SMALL WATER FLY FISHING

In this video, creek rat and Media Manager Larkin Wilson breaks down why fly fishing small water is worth your time this summer. Plus, we'll cover the gear we recommend to folks getting into the creek fishing game, including fly rods, reels, fly lines, leaders/tippet, and flies.

[@pentafishing]

Very informative video! It's a lot of fun to fish on a small creek with a short fly rod!

[@nathancottrill1363]

Great video! I have a blast fishing fiberglass on big waters. Usually 5wt-6wt 8ft. I have a few creek rods and it’s just as fun on small water. Small waters offer so much more than one would think.

[@dominikk8547]

I think it is a good idea to go a line size higher. Fly lines are weighted for 30 ft, so it casts ideally when you have 30 ft of line in the air which probably is like 40-45 ft overall casting distance (30 ft of line, plus 9ft of leader plus a bit of line shooting). That's why competitive distance casters are underlining rods by about 2 classes (7wt rod w 5wt line) because they are keeping 60 ft of line in the air. Vice versa if you only only cast 25-30 feet on average which means keeping like 20ft of line out, the rod will be underloaded and a heavier line can help

[@jlee4849]

Great information. Thanks. Getting a Loomis IMX Pro Creek 7’6” 3 wt for exactly this.

[@AnglersAll]

Love it! That's a perfect stick for the small water!

[@Nrussell11]

Can confirm, this is a sweet little rod!

[@Fannypackfisherman]

Awesome video man, very helpful!

[@anthonycaruso7023]

this channel is very underrated

[@milanbogdanovic6120]

Well done.

[@TERRYBIGGENDEN]

Good stuff. it's my main interest in fly fishing. Nothing beats small streams. I use a 1 wt! :-)

[@AnglersAll]

Small rods on small water - it's hard to beat! Thanks for watching!

[@jeffcowles5328]

Thanks for another solid video. More importantly as a CO small creek junkie thank you for not naming any 😎

[@davidblair4388]

What rod do you use? I have a 3wt glass, looking for a 2wt for these tiny creeks. Also in CO.

[@jeffcowles5328]

@@davidblair4388 same - almost always a 3wt. I have a 9' TFO blue ribbon that gets most use and sometimes a 7'

[@collinhackl265]

my creek set up is a echo river glass in a 6,9 #3wt with a lamson remix and it’s money

[@AnglersAll]

What a fun rod for the blue lines, excellent choice. Thanks for watching!

[@davidblair4388]

Nice video Larkin, I see what rod you are using 😉 3 weight?

[@4492573]

Great video, what rod are you using in 8:11 of the video. Thanks.

[@casualobs]

As a non-angler, I appreciate the set up of this video, and the thorough explanations of what is important and why. “The F in Fiberglass is for Fun!” I love it. Great job ✌🏻

[@MaHa-mr4rn]

Hello, Fine informations ! Can you please send me a link where to buy your equipment ? Kind regards, Markus

[@edwardcowan7012]

Good video. I live in PA and primarily fist for warm water species in the open water season. I've recently started fishing small streams in the winter for native brook trout. I've been fishing with spinning gear with spinners, crappie jigs and small jerk baits. I've been wondering how effective fly fishing would be. I'm thinking 2wt in the 6-7ft range. I build rods and like one piece blanks? They don't seem to exist, I had a 6 1/2 ft glass 2 wt I built 40 years ago but no longer have it.

[@AnglersAll]

Fly fishing for brookies in those small east coast streams is a blast. A 7' 2wt. and a pocket full of dry flies (caddis, ants, hoppers, etc.) can make for a wonderful day with tons of visual eats. Really opens up a lot of new water that you might not have been able to cover with the spinning rod. Although there's certainly nothing wrong with feeding them a rooster tail or a little cleo every now and then!

[@sirmegallot3276]

Lots of good info, interesting point about the fly line. I have actually heard you want to use a weight-forward line so that your rod will load in close quarters, but I can see the merits of using a gradually-tapered line to get a more delicate landing.

[@joshuaurbach6163]

Great content Larkin! I second the Infinity taper on graphite. I have it on my 7’9” RL Winston LT 4wt and it is such a great line.

[@det282]

This was an awesome video. I fish a small creek near me in Oregon and it brought up ideas I hadn’t thought of. Thanks.

[@mitchelkobli442]

Very nice. Simple and very well explained.

[@aldomartin4139]

Can you link part 2?

[@seanb2604]

Echo carbon 7'6" 3 wt with an echo ion reel and plain airflo double taper line. Has been a perfect brook trout setup.

[@AnglersAll]

That's an excellent brookie setup, absolutely. Hard to beat the Echo Carbon at the price point. Thanks for watching!

[@craigstockton3103]

This is where Tenkara works best. I have been a fly fisherman for over 40 years. I have been using Tenkara now for 12 years. Use Tenkara for most small stream applications, also catch more fish with this technique.