Fly Fishing some INSANE tiny creeks! (Trout Fishing Washington)

[@briljantje9583]

The Hardman bros are real champions of small creek flyfishing. Amateurs could learn a lot from these videos.

[@Xaagy_]

100%, they’re some of the people that got me interested in fly fishing.

[@philliphaworth3387]

Around the 6:40 mark, “Don’t get any giant spiders on me please!” 😂😂 My exact same mantra! Love small stream fly fishing, but don’t like the spiders. Another amazing video with a perfect soundtrack. Thank you for taking the music out.

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you!

[@tonycamplin8607]

What a beautiful place, fantastic scenery.

[@hardmanfishing]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@dewdrop6400]

Great series. I love watching native fish being caught in their original drainages. I have been on a quest since I retired to catch brookies in all of the states where brook trout were originally found. Your videos inspire me to get out there and try harder.

[@hardmanfishing]

I’ve got the same idea! I’ll probably start doing that in the early spring

[@dewdrop6400]

@@hardmanfishing Tbh, I wish I had started earlier as time and circumstances may get in the way of me finishing but I think I have targeted populations of native brookies in most of the states except a couple. Good luck to you.

[@stevebishop9928]

Always enjoy the videos!!

[@henryleslievermont6004]

Awesome views and fun fishing! Enjoyed 👍

[@Dylans_Garage]

Why don’t you guys have 100k!? That’s absurd, your content in amazing🔥

[@jshada58]

Fantastic scenery and beautiful fish. Great job as usual. Keep up the good work.

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you! And glad you enjoyed

[@JP-dz7zu]

Not to scare you, but I learned the hard way when I moved out west and started fishing those rural areas…. Washington has a huge mountain lion population. You think of grizzly bears in Montana / Wyoming, but you gotta respect the cougars in the PNW! The are you were in has regular closings due to lion activity.

[@sclewell777]

I'd worry about Bigfoot. Seriously

[@ElementProd.]

@@sclewell777that’s what you should really be worried about

[@Beardedfurflinger]

Mountain lions/ cougars are tricky with a bear or coyote you'll see them & can avoid contact,cougars not so,them little sneaky tirds can stalk you & pounce before you see them,just be cautious 🤙

[@flyfishincrazy]

@@sclewell777😂

[@PNW_joe.bannister]

@@Beardedfurflingeryeah very true, Luckly ive only seen lions from boats or car in the dnr lol, id make a coyote my pet dog if i saw a lion in front of me

[@TightLinesNW]

Got to pause at 14:00 +/- Stunning... I live, I am guessing, less than a 3 hour drive from where I think you are. Thank you so much for sharing this and thank you for not hot spotting this!

[@ZaydenHetherington]

Another awesome video. I love this series man! I'm headed fly fishing tomorrow!!

[@hardmanfishing]

Good luck out there! And thanks for watching

[@caseycravens7062]

Good work again, Hardman guys.

[@zumalot]

Totally mesmerizing environment. I enjoyed waiting to see what you pulled out of the water. I also was sort of expecting to see one of those veggie eating dinosaurs. Awesome video.

[@hardmanfishing]

glad you enjoyed it!!

[@charlesjohanesen1651]

thanks for making these, real honest fishing.

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you for watching!

[@themidnightrider6805]

I thank you for this series! What an amazing adventure. Keep it up! ❤

[@hardmanfishing]

Glad you enjoyed it!!

[@JohnathanHarpst]

Just got into fly fishing recently and I’m hooked watching all of the videos. This is awesome!!

[@hardmanfishing]

Heck yeah!! Thanks for watching and good luck with your new obsession!

[@MikeCanfieldalpinemike]

You'll find rainbow, west slope cutthroat and the coastal version of both (steelhead and sea run cuts) also we have bull trout and dolly varden. Cutty was eating a sculpin! Cool video!

[@TheMichaelRiley]

Yes boysssss!!!!! Making my week once again!

[@jivinmiles6352]

The thing that cutty spit out at 18:18 was a sculpin! They’re in pretty much every river this side of WA and the trout are always eating them! Sculpzilla ftw!!!

[@wvlongshooter3912]

Awesome content!! I really enjoy your videos!! A few of our best wild trout creeks here in Wv still have flow even though Wv has been going through a horrible drought this year. I’m sure you are aware. As you know some of our creeks waters come out of the hills and springs, it’s an amazing thing even with no rain. I believe our streams and trout are going to be ok. Thanks!!!

[@hardmanfishing]

Yep I’m very well aware 😂 a few drainages are much worse than others. And any drainages that are spring fed are going to be just fine

[@rinrat6754]

Beautiful, a wetter version of tiny creek fishing in the Rocky Mountain foothills and Eastern Slopes, SW of Calgary. Took a 6 year old and his dad bushwhacking down a perfect cutthroat stream while bikepacking earlier this summer. Absolutely epic son and dad moments, plus loads of brutal rod navigation through the trees and willows.

[@hardmanfishing]

That's so awesome!! That's some of my favorite type of fishing. Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed

[@callummathewson2483]

Love from Wales uk

[@hardmanfishing]

Thanks for watching from the UK!

[@e4t662]

Washington appears to a beautiful state. Plenty of rain and unpopulated rivers. Nice.

[@hardmanfishing]

It’s incredible!

[@stevebishop9928]

I have walked up a creek off of the upper rogue river, the sun was high noon. I casted a number 12 adams in all the shaded areas, brook everytime!

[@Beardedfurflinger]

Whoops we've all made that mistake,wonder up what we thought was the creek,again another awesome video,those small waters are a frick'n hoot,I broke down & got a 3 weight 8' glass rod & small click & pawl reel,getting back to my roots & loving the simplicty of it,keep on producing great videos,tight lines 🤙🇺🇸

[@LeakyWadersAdventureClub]

I moved to Oregon 2 years ago because I traveled for work and worked up in the gorge area. That allowed me to find streams in both states and I was hooked I love it here.

[@hardmanfishing]

That’s awesome! I can’t wait to come back

[@brandonwatson3980]

Enjoy your videos!

[@hardmanfishing]

Glad you enjoy them!

[@raphaelvictor6108]

The magic land where a 10 inches is a trophy for a resident trout! It can be disheartening for the new angler to the area to not spot big fish in those spring fed sections. Good job on finding this waterfall. Like you did, fishing streamers and big dries is the way to filter through little ones. Probably coho, chinook and steelhead fry in the mix.

[@hardmanfishing]

The environment your fishing more than makes up for the lack of big fish that’s for sure! Thanks for watching

[@PNW_joe.bannister]

Costal cutt-throats are a native fish swimming in basically every river and creek in washington super aggressive fish, i loved watching this video

[@hardmanfishing]

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it

[@joshuamillard37]

That thing that the cutthroat spat up was a sculpin! One of the main foods for trout in this area of the states. A killer pattern to catch big trout pre winter up here!

[@hardmanfishing]

I bet so! It’s good to imitate sculpins anywhere in the country I think 😂 they’re such a good food source for trout

[@stevebishop9928]

Big foot lives there!

[@Grilledcheeseisgood11]

Amazing video! Quick tip from washington: Those are sea run cutthroat trout and they go crazy for a brown or black wooly bugger.

[@hardmanfishing]

Thats a good tip for sure!!

[@shsd7579]

this makes me want to go bowling

[@beedoubleoh959]

Cool to see you fish my home waters. I didn’t start fly fishing till I started working out in Montana guiding the big horn. ( if you ever wanna come out I’ll take you on a float for free.) wish I would’ve fly fished at home before I left though. ( big fish eatin streamers here on the big horn atm )

[@tenkarapondfishing4611]

I floated the Bighorn at Fort Smith for three days in May. Fabulous experience with Bighorn Anglers.

[@beedoubleoh959]

@@tenkarapondfishing4611 gotta come out soon again for streamer season, it’s insane, been nailing 20+” fish all day long

[@caydenmcdermott]

You should do some winter fly fishing with nymphs

[@kevinforlino5839]

We have a good amount of both rainbow and cutthroat here in WA. So it's not surprising to get cutbows here and there. We even get sea-run cutthroat, which are only found here in PNW between NorCal and southern Alaska.

[@oscarlambert3525]

Those coastal cutthroats are aggressive fish, lots of fun.

[@hardmanfishing]

Definitely a cool species!

[@pyro9013]

Respect for not naming any of the areas you're fishing. I was waiting for you to catch some cutties.

[@what...5926]

3 inches is normal sized. Plus he probably has a great personality.

[@ElementProd.]

agreed

[@boxingstarcmbballer8797]

That’s what she said huh ? As she went to her other man’s house for that big pipe! 😂

[@what...5926]

@@boxingstarcmbballer8797 I was talking about the fish man lmao.

[@boxingstarcmbballer8797]

@@what...5926 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

[@okpil22]

Western Washington is a tough place to trout fish if you're looking for anything of size. The best consistent trout fishing is in alpine lakes or above impassible waterfalls where trout populations don't have to compete with salmon, steelhead, coastal cutthroats, and bull trout. There are some low elevation lakes that have some decent trout fishing too. The fun of fishing in western Washington is that there are so many different runs of fish from the ocean to these little streams. Spring chinook, summer steelhead, early fall coastal cutthroats, fall chinook/coho/pink/chum/sockeye salmon, late fall bull trout, winter steelhead...the not so fun part is navigating the labyrinth of regulations to make sure you're not in a closed area during these runs.

[@hardmanfishing]

That’s what I’ve heard, I may have to check that out next time I’m out there. The regs are very intense, and I learned even if you follow the regs people get upset 😂 there are several other areas of Washington I want to explore so we’ll see what I run into then!

[@okpil22]

@@hardmanfishing Coastal cutthroats on Puget Sound beaches and chasing bull trout in the North Cascades were some of my favorite fall past times. Bigger fish and beautiful scenery. Highly recommend!

[@kriyashivajiva]

native gold

[@garynelson234]

Looked like a sculpin

[@davidleimeister5027]

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. That's all I can say. Only one question, Did you see Bigfoot on your adventure?

[@hardmanfishing]

I wish!! Would’ve been a great addition to the video

[@PlantedElement]

What a beautiful location! Also, whar shoes you using? Im looking for something new.

[@DecRon]

What size tip it do you use

[@PhilipBaljak]

Wich reel are you using

[@ReadingwithRisa]

slayyyyy

[@peltotalo]

What did you have tied on?

[@wetsockoutdoors8538]

GoPros can go underwater?

[@PhilipBaljak]

Wich weel are you using

[@TheD510addict]

Those are probably Coho.

[@stevebishop9928]

I would have to know the river that the creek flows into to be sure.

[@viking7560]

Looks like you’re in the Shire.

[@hardmanfishing]

Pretty sure I was 😂 thanks for watching!

[@boxingstarcmbballer8797]

Watch again closely you will see Frodo sneaking around in the background.

[@stevebishop9928]

Very small, definitiley a native salmon. chinook, or coho, I am not sure.

[@sawyerhufford9658]

Pretty sure that was a coastal cutthroat they migrate just like salmon and stralhead

[@hardmanfishing]

Yep it was!! Thanks for watching!

[@stevebishop9928]

Wow, not stocked. I can not remeber the name of the fish that was in the mouth of the cutthroat , steelhead love them. Just can not use live bait.

[@oscars4107]

Do your boots keep your feet dry?

[@hardmanfishing]

Not unless I have waders on!

[@stevebishop9928]

Looks like you are in old growth country. you are not going to see any trout, just salmon and steehead fry! All native!

[@stevebishop9928]

I do not think there are any native brook trout. you never know!

[@stevebishop9928]

Nope, not a rainbow. salmon.