Fly Fishing Farm Fields for Trout!! (Brook Trout Conservation - WV trout fishing)

[@Mikeyxy20]

Don’t get me wrong, I love watching you catch brookies, but this is probably one of the best and most important videos you’ve produced! Great work!

[@hardmanfishing]

It's definitely one of, if not my favorite video I've ever made! Glad you enjoyed it

[@tomjackson3988]

Agreed!

[@fishblueridge]

Listening to that man giggle while catching that fish describes perfectly how it feels to catch a brook trout on the fly

[@hardmanfishing]

You ain't wrong! Thanks for watching

[@royvarner9256]

Great video and everyone involved as well. Thanks for caring

[@tonywalkingstick8883]

This is the best video ever you've made to the future and well being of Brooke Trout and the other fish that share the same water systems. I am truly grateful for the conservation efforts that you are helping to make known on a grand scale.Thank you from a Native Indigenous American Veteran man.

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed the video

[@NathanSeibt]

Love the collab with TU, and Dustin’s happy laugh when he catches a fish!

[@budfahnestock2418]

possibly my favorite video you've put out, love it

[@hardmanfishing]

It's definitely one of my favorites!

[@landonedwards7504]

You really nailed it on this one, Jon! Extremely important message presented with your usual flair for capturing our attention and depicting places we all love. The info is a sobering reminder that a lot of what we all value exists and hangs on by a thread. We need to be reminded of the treasures under our feet more often. Thanks!

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. This one took a while to come together for sure. Thanks for watching!

[@gregorysullivan7913]

Reminds me of when I was young up n New Hampshire. I use to fish all these types of small streams hidden by underbrush for Brookies. So much fun. Brookies forever!

[@destro.4554]

Where at in nh? I still haven't been able to catch a trout on a fly rod all year

[@GKall-tw4dp]

@@destro.4554 check out eastern brook trout joint venture, they have a map on NH and other states that show what rivers contain wild trout. Most the streams in nh are small a require stealth but there is some good fishing if you don't mind working for it.

[@hardmanfishing]

That's awesome! I haven't been up to New Hampshire to fish yet, but I'm hoping to fish that area next year (I hope). Thanks for watching!

[@gregorysullivan7913]

@@destro.4554 I am talking 40 to 50 years ago. Mostly west of Milford, all the way to Vermont border and north of Keene. Also, almost anywhere White Mountains north.

[@destro.4554]

@gregorysullivan7913 Now that I think of it, I do have one good spot where I have pulled a couple 8-10 inch brook trout out of on a spin rod in almost downtown merrimack. I will have to take a drive over to Keene area!

[@leemowers9395]

Thanks for sharing this story.

[@johncalabrese6467]

Jon, this video shows how conservation and action works to preserve natural habitat. Great presentation!

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you so much!

[@jshada58]

So very well done. Keep up your great work. This was very interesting and educational. Thank you.

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed it

[@JoelFishes]

Great stuff - TU does good work and I appreciate you bringing some eyes to this effort.

[@hardmanfishing]

These guys deserve to have everybody see the work they put into these streams that's for sure! Thanks for watching

[@briljantje9583]

Keep up the good work John! Preserve the brookies!

[@hardmanfishing]

I will for sure! Thanks for watching

[@Ryanoceros06]

I got the chance to meet Dustin a few months back, in the middle of nowhere on the border of the Cranberry Wilderness. He and his family rolled up to the blue line I was at so they could hunt for ramps. Super cool guy, I recognized him and some of his work from your last conservation video. He gave me the low down on the stream I was on and whatnot. The dude knows his stuff!

[@hardmanfishing]

He's one of the nicest and most knowledgable dudes you'll meet! And overly passionate about the brook trout in and around the state.

[@DavidSpain-i4c]

This is a fantastic video, great work in getting the message out. Thank you for helping us to see how we can help conserve resources no matter where we live. Like others, I love watching you catch fish, but this might be the number one video I've seen. Tight Lines!

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you so much!! It’s one of my favorite videos I’ve ever made. Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed it

[@philliphaworth3387]

Good video editing. Excellent writing. Relevant content artistically presented, and well covered. You did this better than some of the news reporters I used to work with. Another amazing video!

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you so much for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed the video

[@e4t662]

Trout Unlimited by definition means just that..preserve these wonderful fish and their habitat for future generations to enjoy. Great video Brother.

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it

[@MrToolhead82]

Fantastic video Jon. As fortunate as we are to have TU working in our state, they were just as lucky to have you documenting it. ✌️ ❤️ 🎣 ⛰️

[@hardmanfishing]

Thanks for the kind words man! Glad you enjoyed the video ✌🏼

[@michaelsmith7193]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! An absolutely timely and compelling message!

[@hardmanfishing]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@gzeppe4671]

Amazing up to date footage of what it really takes to preserve our beloved habitats.

[@christophervega3226]

I've been hitting the silver bow creek just a few miles down from the mine and it's some of the best Brooke trout fishing I've ever seen for any species they hit aggressively and are very very healthy.. so seeing that the silver bow had gone through so much with the mining pollution I have to say the fishing is great.

[@Shamado62]

I really enjoy your videos but this was really one of your very best/important. You did a great job reinforcing the logic behind the conservation. Thanks.

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video

[@ReadingwithRisa]

look at all those fishies!!

[@happygnome4620]

Great to see eh?

[@charlesjohanesen1651]

you've out done yourself, fantastic and worth the wait.

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you so much!!

[@leomelody3236]

Great video and impressive conservation efforts.

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you!

[@marylandangler]

now this is a CRAZY collaboration

[@tonycamplin8607]

Marylandangler. Sorry but I don't think that it's a crazy idea, l fully support everyone's efforts to improve the stream. It's a wonderful conservation project, good luck to them.

[@hardmanfishing]

It's been a long time coming! Hopefully we'll do more projects in the future

[@matthewjasinski5636]

Great video! Thank you for doing this!

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you for watching!

[@dwitt6199]

This episode is so dope!! Good work bro!👊🏿🤙🏿

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you!!

[@Velakowitz]

Great stuff! You need some come and also see the habitat of the southernmost brook trout (North Georgia) also affected with some of the things your video noted. Great video!!

[@hardmanfishing]

I’d love to! I just don’t know many people down there that do that sort of work. And thanks for watching

[@Velakowitz]

@@hardmanfishing I can connect you with the Native Fish Coalition chair of this area. They do incredible work. The Mobile Basin brook trout gets ZERO attention. Probably the most at peril Brook trout in the country. Specifically in the Cohutta Mountains.

[@jdl.1234]

Thanks for the video......I live in WV. I wish the state would fix the streams in my area, mine runoff has ruined so much....

[@garrettcooke1719]

Trout unlimited is doing similar projects down here in ga. I wish they would solely focus on brook trout rather than the introduced brown trout when Georgias native biodiversity is so high and so many other species are facing the same problems. We really need a native fish unlimited

[@marisahardman]

videography on point!

[@what...5926]

Near old Elkins huh? Lol. I've gotten to do some fishing out there once. It was great. Lot of water snakes. Just got back from fishing the little kern 🤙

[@SarahArmstrong213]

Here to request more content of the cute lil ginger boy plz

[@hardmanfishing]

Honestly a solid request. I'll make sure we fish at least once this fall and make another video!

[@troutbumdiaries4420]

His name is Jared Bishop. And he has an absolute unit of a wiener. Your welcome!

[@micahbates7222]

He’s mine sorry I won’t share

[@SarahArmstrong213]

@@micahbates7222😢

[@kennyv.7247]

Sad to see. Look into what happened in the Yellow Breeches not too far north and east of WV. All of the trout in their hatchery literally cooked to death in the raceways, due to high temperatures in the water. Great job bringing awareness

[@hardmanfishing]

That's wild! I've heard of Yellow Breeches, but nothing about dead trout.

[@FishingwithFarley]

This is an amazing video

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it

[@otterlover2397]

Awesome video!!! I just caught my personal best native brookie at 13.5”. Was a big male with a hump so I couldn’t ask for a better fish. Hopefully I’ll catch him when he’s even bigger.

[@hardmanfishing]

That’s awesome!! Congrats man. A 13.5 inch native is a super nice fish!

[@TheMichaelRiley]

As always, let’s go boys!!!!!

[@tgsfishing5979]

Awesome video jon

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you!

[@juancervantes313]

You should really look into the Kara japanese style fly fishing. It would be perfect for these streams as they look just like the mountain streams of Japan!

[@GKall-tw4dp]

Loved the video, I'm interested in what I can do to help the cause.

[@hardmanfishing]

Honestly joining TU and volunteering would be huge. This video was supposed to bring awareness to the work they’re doing and how important farm bill funding is. But any amount of time and effort people put in to helping them out and showing support is always appreciated I’m sure. I wish I had a more direct way you could help!

[@marisahardman]

you da best

[@marisahardman]

“yum!!”😂😊

[@ZaydenHetherington]

Hey man. I’m from West Virginia as well!! Ever since I picked up a fly rod I’ve absolutely been in love. I have done all the research and clicked on all the links I could find, but I can’t seem to find any resources to tell me where our native streams and wild brown or rainbow trout streams are. Do you know any links or maps that might help?

[@bb-fe9ur]

Trees along the creek ar the answer. Willows grow super fast

[@tonycamplin8607]

It isn't only in the USA that this sort of thing is going on, natural stream habitats are being destroyed here in the UK also. A starting temperature of 11°C is still very warm compared with our spring fed waters.

[@hardmanfishing]

That's interesting! I wonder why spring water would be colder in the UK? I think most of our spring water is usually in that 9 to 11 degree C range. But thanks for watching!

[@SasquatchBioacoustic]

I have a spring on my land in Germany Valley that runs through cattle pasture (center of your shot at 0:41 ). Besides keeping the cattle out of the stream, what can I do to keep the spring running cool as it crosses the pasture and heads down to join the river at Riverton?

[@BeckyS]

Cover plants! Let native bushes and trees grow on the banks to shade the stream wherever possible. Adding little bridges for the cows to use would probably help with preventing erosion, but we all know cows aren't going to use bridges if they can go in the water. Lol

[@PaulN-x2q]

Meadows might hold soil better than trees, depending on the intensity of flood? Beaver maintain meadows, do we need to continue beaver suppression? Shade means more vegetation-mass, which could result in greater transpiration and respiration in the soil? Temperature and dissolved oxygen are closely related, but, dissolved oxygen is more critical. A tree canopy increases humidity, evaporation allows for a decrease in temperature. Low temperature is good, but, trout populations give way to other fish, like chub and bass. Tree roots respire, and rhizospheric activity increases soil-acidity, which is how trees uptake nutrients in chalky alkaline soils (cation-exchange). My opinion is to create beaver-dam-analogs. We can engineer-in bars and cut-banks for stream meandering /sinuosity, slowing stream-discharge and allowing erosion-fill, rather than erosive-cut. At least for trout in the West, not sure about brookies, they need some erosion to replace sand and gravel, lost to flood or algae growth; it is used in spawning reeds, and caddis and stonefly rely on a porous stream bed. Raising the water-table by slowing down stream discharge and capturing sand and gravel in banks, and beaver-dam-analogs, allows more stream discharge to percolate thru the soil on the stream-banks, and stream bed, where the temperature is regulated in a geothermal-sense. We can also foster spring-creek chemistry; In places, such as Texas, they add crushed limestone to ponds in the summer to maintain dissolved oxygen levels. Much like keeping cattle off of the stream-bed, we can restrict wading practices, particularly during spawning season.

[@Ben-i7w6x]

I'm from West Virginia

[@hardmanfishing]

You and me both!

[@icontrol9971]

What is your euro leader formula?

[@DuriensBane]

We have a local brown trout stream that is similar to this, while i havent been to the headwaters, the areas that i can fish show symptoms like this, the FFO section is between to large hillsides but due to the width of the creek it leaves it very open and will heat up rapidly in the summer (70-74) but the area about 2miles below drops to the low to mid 60s. The whole area is forested and has from my count 10-12 seeps comming from 1 side. And i would bet there are a few more that come out in the creek itself. Sadly the more sheltered area below is private and there is little information about it.

[@ReadingwithRisa]

first😉

[@InsneevledGD]

Nobody cares

[@hardmanfishing]

I care!!

[@roberthanning6562]

Just get on with the fishing

[@conservativerealist]

So on that creek,trout unlimited is wasting time and pocketing money trying to make à cold water trout fishery,out of à warm water habitat..so plant little bass or bluegill etc.

[@hardmanfishing]

I’m not sure you even watched the video, and if you did you clearly didn’t understand it 😂