How To Fly Fish for Trout in Small Streams | Ep. 84

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About this video: Small stream fly fishing is one of the sport's greatest experience, but tons of anglers overlook these hidden gems. Tiny rivers can present some tough challenges for anglers, but that's where today's episode of Untangled comes in! Spencer will walk you through EVERYTHING you need to know about fly fishing small streams, including how to rig up your flies, what flies to use, how to approach the water, and get the best presentation possible, so you come home with tons of memories. You'll also learn about: the knots most guides use for fly fishing, how to fish nymphs at different depths, some general tips on fishing with emergers, and why fly anglers generally don't use lifelike flies.
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[@daveschlom4033]

I have a small stream that is 45 minutes from my door. Up in a beautiful mountain meadow that drops into a canyon. It's a gorgeous, peaceful place and I rarely get skunked there. The fish are small but feisty (lots of aerials!). I call it "my happy place." Took a guide friend of mine there a week ago and he loved it too (though I had to swear him to secrecy with many threats). He caught fish at a 5:1 ratio to me but I was expecting that and enjoyed watching his methodical approach and learned a lot just watching him. He did lots of tight line dry dropper fishing. And was very effective. Great content Spencer!

[@jimmiferfreddette8583]

Ive been fishing my whole life. I almost strictly fish small streams. I found myself going to them because no one was there! Although larger rods like your 5wt are often more practical, I find it a lot more fun to fight smaller stream fish with low weights and click pawl reels. There’s even a small creek that runs directly through my town. It flows through one of the largest intown parks in the us, through a beautiful college campus and into the sac river. You can catch smallies all day. Not sure what the diet soda inside joke is but I live on Diet Coke lol helps keeps me in fighting shape. Great video!

[@clanman8278]

I will say thst I live in NJ, and when I started fly fishing with my 9' 5 weight on our tiny wild trout creeks, I would get stuck in a tree every cast. When I got my 7' 3 weight, I was actually able to cast. The 2' difference allowed me to cast so much better in the extremely tight spaces, and the fishing has been awsome since

[@Tscaperock]

Small stream fishing has to be the best fishing I have ever done! Small brookies! What a challenge, totally fun!

[@__andrew_romano__8140]

I found this one stream-probably many moons since someone last threw something in there. I caught 15 12" cutties on a tenkara rod by sight in about 90 minutes. different pools among huge willows. probably one of the greatest days of fishing ive ever had.

[@DallasLarson40]

Small streams are like me in high school, easily overlooked but a dang good time if you give me a chance😉 nice work spencer. I’m always impressed how good your solo podcasts are! Not easy to do. Keep it up!

[@rickyblackburn9533]

In East Tennessee we have some creeks that run into a tailwater (Watauga river). So large trout will run up in the creek which makes it very awesome!!!..

[@SylviaRR]

Just did this yesterday! Would have been there today but got evacuated late last night, from my campsite, due to wildfire! Caught lots of little trout. Had a blast, did not see a single person all day! And I too ended up taking a swim because I was determined to get back my fly out of a tree branch! LOL!!!!!!

[@egregiousblunder5395]

Man, summer, late fall creekin is some of the best fishing you can do honestly. Down here in CO, we have a ton of them, but most guys don't want to fish them because, 1. They take some effort to get too (a mile to a few miles from your truck), 2. The fish are not trophy grade, 3. They can't just effortlessly stand in the middle of the water (they have to navigate weeds, trees, obstacles in the water). Adventuring and fishing small streams reminds me of being a kid again, back when I would chase down all sorts of fish in the small backwoods streams in the Ozark's in Missouri. Some of my best fish to date have came out of smaller streams, believe it not, you and I both know that some monsters can live in smaller streams. I've also caught some of the best looking fish that I have ever seen in smaller streams. I firmly believe that the smaller streams produce better looking fish due to their environment, its smaller, providing more food, and less stress. That's just my own theory. As for flies, foam, foam, foam, foam caddis, and hippie stompers are two of my favorites to hold up my perdigons. All you need to complete the day is cold left over chicken wings and a coke zero, or dr. pepper zero!

[@stevef2624]

Small creeks are pretty much the staple where I am and all that I fish. Combat fishing is a very apt description. Finding that likely spot that holds fish and seeing if you can even get a cast to it without spooking the whole creek makes it worth catching fish that are a little smaller.

[@jimholland1592]

Great content, enjoy what y’all are doing keep it up. I’m two days after a total knee replacement, gonna be down for a while, but will be looking for your content😉☕️☕️

[@rustyknott-W.D]

Small streams can hold surprisingly large fish. The best thing about a small stream is that you really have to pay attention to what you're doing, hitting small targets close in. If you can fish a small stream effectively, a large river becomes very easy to deal with.

[@Since-80s]

I do small stream tenkara fishing in western montana. I carry a collapsible wood saw, its like a big screwdriver with a seperate blade, i carry a length of paracord so that i can throw the handle over a branch to winch down the right branch and cut it. im done playing with trees, tenkara has an odd backcast that is quite high so it teaches you to look first all around you.

[@SaskFisher]

Nice video. I have been focusing my videos this year on small creeks. The ones I fish are so dence and hard to cast too. Lots of them are 3' wide and covered in weeds. Totally worth it as you are mentioning when you land one!

[@PatrickPizzulo]

We fish tiny mountain creeks in East Tennessee mountains, very heavy cover, took years of trial and error but we consistently catch the most beautiful wild trout you can imagine. Small streams are all we fish.

[@rickyblackburn9533]

I live in East Tennessee also. Elizabethton Tn.

[@sethbcarp]

I love this channel sm

[@TheZachatree]

I’m from pa. The state with more miles of stream than 49 other states besides Alaska. I fish a lot for native brook trout on streams a quarter the size of the smallest stream you discuss here using a 0wt 5’8” rod.

[@eiger992000]

Small streams in the West are rivers in the northeast.

[@jimmiferfreddette8583]

Yes there are 3 creeks in my town that are bigger than a lot of east coast rivers

[@michaelgieringer3209]

Mostly i fish small water streams /rivers / creeks -- the Red River in NM, Costillo Creek in NM, the Cimarron River in NM and then get to the bigger water - Rio Grande River in Pilar NM. Small water makes you at better caster and fisher that's for sure. It's still fun and beautiful. I also fish local water - Brushy Creek in Round Rock, Texas and the Guadalupe in Sattler, Texas. And have also been fishing Lower Mountain Fork in Oklahoma at Hochatown, Ok

[@TheBlunted247]

Spilling and the beans on the good spots 😆

[@jeremylamovsky9868]

I live in Steelhead land. Well, Great Lakes steelhead if you wanna debate if it's really a steelhead. Big-ass lake run trout, thus resulting in a lot of people chasing them, especially post-covid. I was fortunate enough to have my sister marry a guy who's family owns a stretch on a small, private branch of my home river that I always dreamed of fishing. Shoulda seen my and my old man's faces when he mentioned it. It's small, not many holes, but fortunately the best one is on our stretch. It's by a bridge so I'm threatening a few people with the police or a kick in the ass from time to time, but I love it. The fish are so pressured everywhere else around you're lucky to get any even when the conditions are right. I'll get ten when it's horribly clear. Heaven on earth. Last year was the first time I fished it and the four trips prior were as bad as it gets. To get into them with just me and my dad was beautiful.

[@Gunzprobish]

Hay Creek in PA is one of the most amazing small creeks iv ever fished

[@chasselynch5733]

Spencer i live in North Central Pennsylvania so thats 90% of my fishing small freestone mountain streams ,30+ years of it

[@Weinparis606]

I caught my pb (23in brown) on a small stream, and it was about 15 mins from my house. Pretty crazy

[@GaryEdge-u1w]

Spencer love the info What about the orvis knot, simple, strong and has the most minimal bulk of any knot. Fishing is the only activity I have seen where multiple wraps of line are used. Except for a noose. That’s a joke

[@TheBlunted247]

I fish a 4 in creek with xtra small oros and 18 nymph. Very effective

[@tezsteinberg]

Could you add chapters to these videos? Would love to see what the various questions/themes are before I dive in.

[@mlg2416]

I fly fish small streams in CO's Front Range. Temps were in the high 90s-100 of late. Then out of nowhere, a cold front. Temps dropped to high 60s during the day and cloudy. All of a sudden, can't catch a thing. What's the trick when these cold fronts move through? I was having so much fun, feeling like a superstar, now back to square one and clueless.

[@Hersirs-Fly-Fishing-Channel]

Can you do a video just about stillwater fishing from the bank

[@Tscaperock]

Come to find out I don’t have a weight problem, but I have a refrigerator problem! Just can’t stay out of the snack area!

[@Colechoots]

How do I submit a live reel life moment? Had a pretty good one the other day.

[@jeremyneal9746]

Have loved all of the content and it's helped me get into this hobby. When I Google the business it shows me an address on Google. Is this a storefront or just a warehouse? If it's a storefront, I'd love to stop by and say hi and thank you!

[@griffinzaldatte5469]

As an arborist and an angler I will die on many a knotty hill xD

[@imdeadinside792]

First

[@DanielBrownVlogs]

First AA12's channel, and now mr. Durrants channel. Well Durrant and Alex's channel.

[@gzeppe4671]

Pretty sure I do no more that 5 twists on 5x or 4x tippet using a clinch knot. Doing the one extra step for the Improved clinch knot is a pain for me. Never had an issue over 4 years of using that. I use triple surgeons knot for tying tippet together, use to just do the double surgeons knot and haven't noticed much between the two but I suppose the triple is better.

[@gzeppe4671]

going to have to re tie my leader to my fly line next season as I can tell the loop has become brittle from swapping leaders many times. Wondering which knot I'm going to use for that.

[@ronaldfisher222]

Where do I get the hat I see in the intro?

[@RIGHTEOUSFINN5]

Someone who's more knowledgeable than myself in regards to stream fishing may be able to answer this: there's a hole I've been fishing on in a cherokee NC stream that has a few 15 in. Trout and 1 huge 20+ in. Trout but they're all stubborn and won't take anything I throw out there. I've tried streamers, dry dropper rigs with an without a nymph, plain wet and dry Flys, etc. but nothing. I caught one to take home an eat on a rooster tail after giving up but my biggest problem is the depth. It go's from a fast flow choke that's 10ft deep to almost perfectly still 7ft water, then tapers into smooth 3 ft. water where they all hang out an feed minus the big fella who stays about 20 ft. away from them in a deeper 6 ft. Divit. The whole rivers mabye 30 feet across but my problem is trying to figure out how to fish this hole most effectively given the weird depth switches and extreme changes in water speed. That and trying to figure out why they're rejecting my baits so much cause the presentation is pretty good I'd like to think

[@SylviaRR]

I would like to know this too! I have a similar area I go to, large trout, swim right by me, they do no care for anything I put in front of them! Drives me crazy!

[@RIGHTEOUSFINN5]

@SylviaRR exactly! Albeit, these still spook somewhat easily but always return to their little spots lol It's frustrating if anything though cause it makes you wonder if you're doing something wrong if if they're just that stubborn

[@bitesize_85]

im just getting into fly fishing. is a palomar knot ok? i use is when bass fishing and its failed very few times but ive never heard anyone use it fly fishing