Dry Fly Trout

[@aaronbenns9051]

love this show

[@andykjohnsonjohnson7622]

Nice video Bill 👍🎣. Great line management. Popping the line for a longer drift, that's old skhool. Had to do that alot , on the chalk strems back in England.

[@OutdoorsAnonymous]

Yes more dry fly action!

[@bigron8346]

Tom you are awesome!!

[@keiranrooker7981]

Tried to do some dry fly fishing at my local creek and missed like 3 fish and broke my small caddis dry since the caddis hatch is happening right now and switched over to a cased caddis and a rainbow warrior and got my biggest brown this year on the rainbow warrior

[@chasingtails7416]

One thing I don't like about these old videos, the tailing gloves. Those do so much damage to the fish.

[@newflyfisher]

We understand

[@EM-ig7ib]

Not trying to be a dick. Its a legitimate question that I think we need an answer too. I am wondering what effect handling trout with that glove has on mortality percentage of released.

[@newflyfisher]

Good question and one which is not accurately answered by many "experts". We have gone and asked this question with Ministry of Natural Resources biologists who actually use gloves and also a C&R specialist (John Cooke) at Carlton University. The key answer: "it depends". The depends is really about where you catch trout related to water temperature which in turn determines the likelihood of fungus or bacteria being in the water to attack the fish where you took the slime off by using the glove. If you catch a brook trout in upstate NY, the water temperatures there get much higher thru the season which in turns leads to more chances of there being infection. A trout caught in cold northern waters does not have same issues because of a lack of bacteria/funguses in the water due to cold temperatures. However, everyone wants a "one policy fits all" with C&R and we understand that. So we have adopted a policy of not using gloves with our videos, wetting our hands and trying to keep the fish in the net, no matter where we catch trout. When you see any video of our hosts or guides using a glove, that is old footage as we no longer due that whenever possible. It is very hard sometimes to convince some of the guides of this as they don't believe this concern but we try. I will tell you since this movement of "keep'em wet" started, I have seen more fish dropped and mishandling than ever before and not by intent. Trout are very slimy and if you truly want to protect them, keep them in the net and release them from there. But we all like to hold up a trophy fish for a picture....and that is where the problem starts. Bit of a "catch 22" situation. Thanks for asking the question, usually we get nasty comments rather than a legitimate question. Appreciated.

[@chasingtails7416]

Saw some research done on stocker fish in a holding tank, and within a week the area the glove was on was completely white and infected, with complete loss of scales and of course, the slime coat. They do way more damage than good, if you grab the tail like they do (but without a glove) and cradle the fishes body weight while keeping them as wet as possible, your fish will live on.

[@InTroutWeTrust]

first

[@chriszack9183]

Poor fish handling and released

[@newflyfisher]

agreed, older video