The Hunt For A Record BROOK TROUT | Catskill Mtns, NY

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[@DownstreamDownrange]

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[@llucq1]

Love that you show the flies etc

[@DownstreamDownrange]

@@llucq1 yep 👍

[@rickkoster6644]

Glad to see you back. Always a great day when I get to watch a D&D video

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Appreciate that!!!!

[@paytonheidtke6037]

Glad I found this page, I'll be going through your videos over the next few days. My best trout was a 12" brown in Michigan!

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Appreciate that! Nice !

[@johnnyappleseed_]

Glad it all came together for ya. Great to see a new video. Lots of work from, the keys, walking, changing rigs.. you went for it.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Tried !!!!!

[@46Chef]

Psyched you’re back! My best trout so far just so happens to be the first trout I’ve ever caught on a sub-surface fly. A 14” brookie! Thanks to you for your videos showing your technique.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

That’s a nice one !

[@angelocorrea-denoncourt1458]

Great to see you back on my friend. Chronimed fishing on Roche Lake in BC Kamloops rainbow 25 inch.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

That’s sounds epic!!!!

[@saylavi5300]

Glad to see you back. Beautiful looking water. Not much luck in moving water. Stillwater fishing has been outstanding this season. Never thought bobber fishing (oops indicator fishing) could be so productive and fun. Squirmy worms and jig style wooly buggers tough to beat. No big fish to brag about .... YET!

[@DownstreamDownrange]

It will Come !!!! Keep on going!

[@wildbrookies]

Another great video ! Has alittle bit of everything. Love how you kept your cool and were able to smartly get your keys through that tiny crack. Talk about pressure. Then you brought us to a beautiful looking spot hoping for a big ole brown. That second one that was camera shy was a toad. Then you took us on an adventure. Awesome bushwack ! Glad you stayed with it and finally located some true native brookies. Loved the parr marks still on it. Nothing ventured , nothing gained. Great pereserverance yet again. Oh, and you saw my largest local stream brownie. It taped out at 25” out of Washington County. That thing 😊was a gator! I’ve caught bigger browns but they were L.Ontario tribs. which shouldn’t count. Btw, so glad to see you picking up where you left off. Looking forward to more and more!

[@DownstreamDownrange]

GIANTTTTT TROUT IT WAS!!!! Man I need to get into a big one soon! Need those night time temps to dip into low 50!

[@garykolanda5208]

Dan - Just want to say welcome back, good to see you again. Had 2 PB’s this Summer with a 14” Brookie & 19” bow from the Swift R tribs. Looking forward to your future videos.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Wow from the tribs ! Cool man!!!!!

[@sippingrises7669]

Glad to see you exploring again. And I remember that first hole from one of your earliest videos! 21 inch brown on top on the WBDR. That was a thrill!

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Dangggg 21 on the del is a seriously strong fish! I’m sure you saw backing !

[@ethanrising712]

Glad you're back! Didn't have a tape but caught a 20ish brown on a tiny VT stream this spring, totally took me by surprise.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Wow!

[@justinwidomski1624]

Great to see another video! Best trout for me was 18.5 over the pond in Scotland.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Wow Scotland !!! That’s cool

[@thelinecook]

You are smoking them out there man!! And amazing video and edits as always Dan

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Appreciate that!

[@matthewahlberg4896]

Hey! Another awesome video glad to see you’re still able to make videos. Longest trout I caught was a 25” brown trout

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Wow! 25! Nice

[@mikeingerham8443]

Absolutely love your videos man!! Makes me excited to get out and explore places myself and my best was a 13inch rainbow.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

That’s great ! Appreciate you watching and nice rainbow trout !

[@cjaycox76]

Great to see you back and hope all is well. My personal best stream trout was a fat 17 3/4” brown.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

That’s a great fish!!!!

[@chasinbowsnbrowns3652]

Good job Dan ! Nice to see you exploring, never know what awaits when searching for new runs ! My biggest trout was a 21 inch bow , gave me a hell of a fight ! Tight lines my friend 👍

[@DownstreamDownrange]

That’s a slammer man!!!

[@andrewnahmias42]

Super stoked your continuing with the videos! 18 inch brown trout !

[@DownstreamDownrange]

18 is amazing! Nice man!

[@andrewnahmias42]

@@DownstreamDownrange wild one on a housatonic tributary in mass. Surprised me. Nice wide paddletail on it .. beautiful fish.

[@trailsandtopwater]

Hey Dan, glad to see you out again! Happy to have contributed, love the content. You may not have even needed to lock the car, that manual transmission is it’s own anti theft device 😅. Biggest trout I think was about 15-16 rainbow.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Hahahah very good point!!!! Nice bow !

[@ChiefSchenevus]

17” brown on Kaydeross whoops SPOT BURN. I love your channel bro, it’s made me start my own channel. WBT STONEFLY FOR THE WIN!!!!!

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Hahahah !!! That’s an amazing fish for the K! WBT alwayssssssss wins

[@jimtom4878]

Hey I'm from gilboa I played schenevus in soccer😂

[@josebedon4294]

My man, nice to see you back.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

I appreciate that! This vid is a 1/10 compared to what gonna come onto the channel here this fall

[@stephenturgeon7196]

Awesome video as always 😎my best fish was a wild brook trout6 inches I was so excited just like you in the video lol keep up the good work

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Cool man!!!! You got it 👍

[@johnbresnock8244]

Great video! Keep on Keepin' on! largest trout was a 21" rainbow when I was young with a hook and a worm! Largest on a fly was a 9" brown,. Hope things work out! Let's Go! Mountaineers!

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Worms work!!! That’s a big rainbow !

[@user-hk3it6rq8m]

Great content; love seeing you work for fish just like the rest of us. Biggest fish was a 20inch brown on the Big Hole in Montana.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

That’s a big brown !!! Nice !

[@braydenstuart8936]

Largest trout I caught was a 15” brown on a wooly bugger with a 3 weight fly rod on the Ausable. Love your videos they inspire me to keep fishing.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Wow a 3 weight, that’s a good fight !

[@donaldgraves7792]

Glad to see you fishing NY. I fished 9 mile creak for years. Not sure about length, 10-15 inches maybe. Keep up the great content.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Solid fish regardless!!!!

[@StuL7292]

Great to see you back on the stream. Large trout was on Montana Yellowstone River….18 inches.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

What a cool place that must be!

[@StuL7292]

My wife and I stayed at an Orvis week at Hubbards Ranch on the Yellowstone River. For a flyfisher it was out of this world. Hope you can get out west some day. Keep up the good work. Your nature shots at the beginning of the video is first rate.

[@menard404]

Love to see the areas you fish since I grew up on the east coast. Biggest trout I've caught was about an 18 inch brown on the Green River in Utah. Cheers.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

That’s great! Maybe one day I’ll get out west!

[@patrickdowney801]

6 inch brookie behind a farm in rural Wisconsin. Go Pack go! Love the videos, keep it up

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Wisconsin is cool! I gotta get to GB some day

[@grantharris3518]

Def wild. Nice catch!

[@DownstreamDownrange]

I agree !!! 🙏

[@thomasgallo7271]

18" rainbow. Nice to see some dry dry/dropper action again. Ive gotten pretty big into blue lining for catskill brookies over the last couple of years, then hit the main stems on the way home for evening hatch

[@DownstreamDownrange]

That’s a great combo! And nice rainbow

[@josiechas]

Hi Dan...enjoyed your video. Biggest trout I ever caught was an 18" rainbow in the dark in a Willowemoc tributary. To this day, I believe that trout was sick, because he did not put up any kind of fight like rainbows usually do. He just swam towards me and surrendered.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Cool to get em in low light !!! I’m gonna try that system in the fall!

[@rickkoster6644]

18 inch brown trout. 2nd trout ever on a fly rod last weekend. Awesome time.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

HahHa now that’s cool!

[@evanhogan9219]

21" brown from the ole hometown creek! Good to see you slinging the streamers around and carrying on after the recent struggle. Would love to know where that big pool is located!!! Keep up the good work. 👍

[@DownstreamDownrange]

21 from local is crazy! Nice !

[@user-xy9kb7nt2n]

It’s always great when you have time to explore new water. 32” brown

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Holy crap!

[@corbeilyves5489]

When there's a sofa near a stream, it's usually a spinning fisherman and these guys stay on the spot till it's empty. Nice to see you back in shape NY video angler. Even one's in a wild, it's fun to follow you, but the day you bring your rocking chair you loose me for sure, Ha! If i win, sell them and keep the money. For Canada it's to complicated and expensive.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Hahaha that could be true !!!

[@carolinawoods-n-water4392]

Biggest trout I’ve ever caught was a fatty of a brown at 23”. It was in a very narrow river bend tuck up under a rock ledge - surprised the hell outta me as initially I thought I was caught up on the bottom! Anyway, glad to see you back!

[@DownstreamDownrange]

That’s an absolutely Huge fish!

[@jimtom4878]

Monster

[@neiltompkins7785]

What part of the Catskills? I grew up in the Catskill great brook trout fishing. I grew up in a little town called Jefferson. Miss the fishing there

[@DownstreamDownrange]

This was the upper area!

[@MrJewrican]

Great stuff as always Dan… For me, 17” brown on the Neversink, and for Steelhead in Pulaski…..31”.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

You fired up for salmon river !?!?

[@MrJewrican]

@@DownstreamDownrange getting prepped.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

@@MrJewrican sick!

[@liamkingsbury7438]

That first fish you landed was 100% a wild trout

[@GeorgeSemel]

Glad that you are out of that funk you were in. I locked myself out of my car a few times over the years. What I do is have a spare key and its safety pin in one of the pockets of my fishing bag. Throw the key in your bag it's cheap insurance. My best Rainbow was on the San Juan R. NM 34 inches and a good 15 lbs.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Great idea! And wow!!!! That’s HUGE

[@Dashbridge]

17” rainbow on the Esopus with a size 16 orange crush!

[@DownstreamDownrange]

A 17!!!!! Omg that’s big! Yep they love the orange crush!

[@garrickarias7380]

22 inches is my biggest. That stream looks awesome

[@DownstreamDownrange]

That’s an amazing catch

[@chavety]

For breaking into your vehicle, it's a good idea to wrap a coat hanger or stiffer wire under the chassis.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Good idea 👍

[@tyrian1616]

22" Brown out of the N. Branch of the Saranac but the BEST fish was when I out my 9 yo son on his FIRST Brook Trout. A 12" out of a little stream in the Moose River Plains. (Western ADK for sure)

[@DownstreamDownrange]

WOWWWWW !!!

[@hectorminator89]

My best trout was a 17 inch Brown trout in upstate NY.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

that’s a great catch!

[@jimcastellanos7983]

A month ago I had my bachelor party in Montana/Yellowstone and caught a 22 inch brown trout on the Gallatin River using a size 14 rusty spinner. It bent the hook so much it was basically unusable!

[@DownstreamDownrange]

I bet that’s a wicked cool place !

[@danielmcguire701]

21 inch brown. Farmington River Barkhamsted, CT People's Forest area. Early spring on a stone fly

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Nice one !!!!!

[@bobm8135]

Awesome intro

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Thanks !!!!

[@kozakmw88]

Gotta fish every section. Leaving us wanting to see the spot you stopped at. 🤨😅

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Only so much time in a day

[@pristinegreenlandscaping1266]

It was with you! We didn’t get a good look at it but maybe 17-20 inches?

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Which one !?!?!?!?

[@pristinegreenlandscaping1266]

@@DownstreamDownrangethat rainbow in the esopus. It’s mark pelton haha.

[@firstfork]

27 inch rainbow.. beautiful area there..

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Giant !!!!

[@kevinkiernanoutdoors3413]

I always drop my keys on the ground and make it the last item I put in my vest.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Smart!!!

[@jackd6148]

Shallow isn't worth it? I saw a 6#+ brook trout in water 6 inch deep water at my secret spot in Minnesota.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

This ain’t minn

[@ROSENTHAL41]

Biggest Brook trout I ever caught in Catskills was 13 inches in ADIRONDACKS 18 INCHES V

[@jimtom4878]

Im definitely gpnna get some of your flies and im gonna start using flys on a spinning reel i saw someone do it on youtube😂

[@jimtom4878]

Gonna

[@DownstreamDownrange]

@@jimtom4878 sweet! You could even use some on a spin rod ! If you really had too

[@jimtom4878]

@@DownstreamDownrange yeah thats the plan til I learn to flyfish I'd imagine it's harder to get tje hang if than traditional fishing

[@jimtom4878]

@@DownstreamDownrange the hang of*^

[@DownstreamDownrange]

@@jimtom4878 it can be as hard as you make it! The key will go jjst almsot enjoy the early struggles and quit before you get a hang of it!!!! Don’t get too stressed ! Maybe have days where you bring both rods. Fly for a while and if you need a break cast spin rod a bit

[@vec206]

Nice man

[@DownstreamDownrange]

🙏🫡

[@vec206]

​@@DownstreamDownrangeforgot to add this to the comment but biggest trout I've caught was 0 inches cuz imjust getting into it and hope to put those flies to good use 😂

[@DownstreamDownrange]

@@vec206 hey that works just fine !!!!

[@vec206]

@@DownstreamDownrange I just went down to schroon river and we caught 2 fall fish and got soke bites from smallmouth and who knows what else vut we did not catch any trout. We used spinners and spoons. We were fishing off the red dock. Any recommendations for baits or anything to use there for next time. I also may get a fly rod soon for my birthday if I think I'll use it.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

@@vec206 hmmm I’m not familiar with spinning gear, definitely get a fly rod

[@FishinFrank]

24” rainbow !

[@DownstreamDownrange]

😳😳😳😳👍👍👍

[@MrCrateraider3]

I am going up to the catskills / adirondacks where is a good place to find resources on streams?

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Recourse ???

[@MrCrateraider3]

@DownstreamDownrange resources, my bad.

[@donalddopp1257]

Best in a stream was 19 inches, in a lake 28"

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Both are awesome!

[@Reel_Lifestyle_Fishing]

27.5” female brown trout

[@DownstreamDownrange]

wow! thats huge

[@benjaminesmeyer6091]

12 inch rainbow

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Solid !

[@davidtodd7958]

PB stream trout is a 17” Brown

[@DownstreamDownrange]

VERY solid

[@tylersebastian116]

20in rainbow

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Niceeeee

[@NativeLines]

My biggest trout is only 16” rainbow…

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Solid !!

[@cjlacosta7331]

14” brown. Looking for bigger!

[@DownstreamDownrange]

That’s a very solid fish man!

[@Fisherofmen1980]

5” rainbow 😂

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Hahah better than no trout !!!!

[@michaelcapurso]

Biggest was a 19" rainbow on the West Branch.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Dang that must have taken some line !!

[@michaelcapurso]

Yea it was white knuckles the whole time LOL. Caught it on an ISO nymph in skinny riffles. Jumped twice, shocked each time that it didn't come off, barbless hook.@@DownstreamDownrange

[@DownstreamDownrange]

@@michaelcapurso that’s wicked !!!

[@googledew]

22 inch rainbow.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Nice one

[@ryonangelvich3874]

19” brown

[@DownstreamDownrange]

Great catch 👍👍

[@aberry01]

21 inches unless you include fall run fish.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

21 is giant! How big are your fall run ????

[@jaygold4467]

The Catskills have a real problem with their native trout populations. Those waters should be full of trout.

[@DownstreamDownrange]

@@jaygold4467 completely agree

[@ChefMacGregor]

This video should just been called a regular day of fishing….Of course you have to go up into the mountain section for the real brook trout! Lazy

[@komando8365]

Nope… nope. What a joke.

[@niggahigganum2]

34" brown on the salmon river was my best trout

[@DownstreamDownrange]

That’s a giant !