I caught some piggy brownies on the fly using some of my meaty hand tied flys. Tight lines!

I flossed a lunker cutty on the fly with hand tied flys while high holing with an LDR at the end.

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

sounds good, but what fly pole were you using? ;D

@PhantomJM

Жыл бұрын

@@ronschlorff7089 Tenkara :D

I don’t know why but the “tight lines” bothers me too. Sounds manufactured. Been fly fishing since I was a kid never heard it it until I was in my fifties. I thought it might have been a secret society sign and the guy was waiting for a countersign. How about, good luck, or have a good day out there or enjoy your day or just “good fishing!” Nice vid. Thanks

@jeramyh9344

Жыл бұрын

I hear "Let's go" and I turn the video off. "Tight lines" is a close second for me.

@pickledud7703

Жыл бұрын

Its been really overused and sounds corny

@Flies_the_limit

Жыл бұрын

@@jeramyh9344 followed by people saying "fish on" not relating to a hook set

Tactical, you killed me with that one!! Thanks for making my day!

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

Yup, "Orvis'd up" is another duded-up creep! They dry-clean their fishing duds! LOL ;D

DAPPING. This is something new to me since I have been spending time in Ireland over the past several years. Currently I live on the Texas coast and fly fish the bays and occasionally go offshore. Beside saltwater fly fishing I do get out occassionly to fish freshwaters around the States ( ie. Yellowstone, Black Hills ,Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, North Carolina, and of course Texas). My new neighbor on Lough Mask, Eddie, has been fishing Lough Mask since he was a child ( he turned 80 this past summer). He grew up making money as a gilley which is the term for a fishing guide. He has a ton of interesting stories to tell and I am trying my best to learn from him. They do things differently over there from the techniques I have been previously exposed to. Their dapping rods are longer than our typical fly rods and they go out in the morning to collect live mayflies to use instead of artifically tied ones. I thought it might make an interesting topic for one of your podcasts.

Yes!!! Hand tied flies! I have complained about that for years! Thank you.

@syrenstomb

Жыл бұрын

don' t you mean flys? 😆+

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

Yup, like the marquee at the "Gentleman's" strip club that says: "Live Girls". Think about that for a second! ;D LOL

This just may be my favorite Huge video!

Costanza reference was gold.

Informative as well as entertaining. Thank you so much! I'm glad I found your channel and will start fly fishing this week. My fly rod combo should be here tomorrow!

You missed my favorite, “short finned grayling “ ( Whitefish ) Thanks , I can’t wait until spring to hear how they tight lined a Hugh hog on a hand tied fly on a 12’ 0 wt tenkara rod :-)

Omg 😂 the picture of Jordan flossing vs snagging 😭😭😭 you love poking us pnw guys.

Good morning Ben, Hope all is well with the family, I just enjoy your take on things. I laugh at my self and learn a few things. I enjoy your fishing videos especially when you take your kids. That’s because starting the chapter with my granddaughter. I will make sure see watches all your content where she want make all the mistakes I did🤣🤣🤣 have a great day and stay huge 👍

I love your FLYS videos

You should do a couple of videos on Fly Fishing SLANG & TERMINOLOGY

Dude you’re the best , 100% accurate , specially the tacos guy ha😂😂😂haha

That was awesome thanks for making my day

Huge video! 👍👌🎣

hahaha paul worseling and family flossing soz from aus thats gold

Just came across your video's, crazy funny, keep em coming

Spot on! Couldn't agree more!

love me them hand-tied tactical on-the-flyes

Ah, puck you!! LOL I use pucks lined with foam to hold pre-tied rigs so when you break off, your fishing again quickly.

Your best video!!!!!

Always entertaining. now back to tying FLYS.

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

and be sure to do it "by hand" now!! ;D

Utah guys are soooo tactical bro! So steez when you’re nymphing the Provo and that 3.69420 mm bead hits a trout in the jaw. 😎

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

normal dress for them, to go to weddings, funerals, etc. like that! ;D

I laughed at this one good stuff

Flys has always been a pet peeve of mine too.

Flossing in Alaska is done when fishing for fresh (as in silver-colored) sockeye salmon. As these fish don't strike anything on their way upstream, that is the only way to catch them. All guides on the Kenai River teach their clients how to floss when fishing for sockeye. However, when fishing for coho salmon, we do not floss because they will strike. When fishing for trout, no fisherman would dream of flossing. All that said, if you want to come up here in the summer and show us how to catch "Reds" without flossing, I will be your willing student. Great videos by the way!

Tight lines man😂

"I'm slaying them! How are you doing?" Ugh. When I hear that I run away, wade away, motor away, walk away, sachet away, even drift away...

You forgot the endearing terms for large mouth bass such as ditch pickles of bucket mouths! Stay Huge!

A Stonker!

I’m not sure if it’s just a Florida thing, but another term for a large fish is adding “gator” as a prefix. Gator trout, gator bass, gator red, and so on.

@RSdd11

Жыл бұрын

I've only ever heard Gator Trout. The big ones get large fangs on them, hence the name. Otherwise, its "Big ol bass, bull red etc." for me.

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

@@RSdd11 yup, and i suppose, for Ben's favorite thing, naming the fish, the names "Junior" (little ones) and "Bubba" (big ones) come up a lot in the conversation!! LOL ;D

This video reminded me of that ZZ Top tune , Velcro Flies.

How are you here and in Patagonia at the same time? #magic

. . . only one letter away from FLYZ!!!

You mentioned video ideas and I haven’t seen a 6wt rod shootout for rods less than $500. That’d be a cool one

6:28 Not a fan of flossing, but as an AK guide sometimes there’s no other option. Sockeyes show up between king and silver season, so there’s a span of a few weeks when they’re the only fish around besides pinks and everybody hates those. Sockeye don’t feed in fresh water period, so flossing them is the only option. If you book a trip between kings and silvers it’s not your guide’s fault if that’s what you end up doing. Do your research and book a trip later in the season.

I’m a center pin guy soo let the good times roll😊

You should do a video on fly fishing slang. That was awesome BTW.

Let’s go ! Ben has laid down the gospel. Take the rocket launcher off your taco , ditch your meat flys and quit worrying about catching toads . Keep your line’s tight and maybe you’ll catch that butter . Hey don’t be a hater just keep it reel ! 😁

Wow, I didn't hear "rip lips" Another great video.

rowin and broin ,,,,, colorado specific d-bagging

The most controversial statement flew way under the radar, "steelhead come from the ocean." Glad to see you fall on the right side of that debate :)

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

yes, and the "half-pounders" that weigh in at 4 to 6 pounds!! Like on the Klamath river in NW CA.

after missing the hookset multiple times my guide told me to try and break his rod and hook set 12 times....hahahahah

I always thought Tight Lines was a statement to other fishermen, wishing them a good day on the water.

Where is your family from? I say Gof, too. Great videos, thanks!

High- and Low- holing is pretty relative. In popular streams here in PA, it's kinda hard to fish without being upstream or downstream or in the same water as another flyfisher.

@phoult37

Жыл бұрын

The etiquette is to go up a few bends before getting in though, which is different

@hgj2019

Жыл бұрын

ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO The high and low holing brought back an interesting event to me. Several years ago I was fishing the San Juan, and this particular day I was on the water at daybreak, freezing my fins off. By about mid morning I was working upstream to a particularly good hole when a strikingly fresh guide and sport (probably just left breakfast at Abe’s) paused roughly abeam my uncharacteristically perfectly drifting dry (yeah,thanks, I’m sure the fish never saw you two clowns stumbling up the bank) and asked “mind if we hop in ahead of you?” (referring to that good hole I had been working up to for a considerable time and was within maybe two upstream moves of fishing). “Actually, yes, I DO mind” I said, to which el guido snarked something about there being “a lot of water” and I THOUGHT “yeah, there is…go find another piece of it”. Fortunately they saw the wisdom of moving on up a bit more. Maybe I looked kinda rough and maybe irritated from my early start, or maybe they read my mind, or maybe they just decided to not be jerks, but their parting comment left me wondering “WHY DID YOU EVEN ASK?”. SOOO… dude,if you’re out there, thanks for not being a colossal jerk, and only being a moderate jerk.

@bettytherussiantortoise2808

Жыл бұрын

I’m from pa and it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, I act stupid since I’m 14 and leave right away…

@hop1414

Жыл бұрын

That's because you're a hot spotter lol

@hydrospanner

Жыл бұрын

@@phoult37 on some streams, if you follow that policy, you'll spend your day taking your rod for a nice long hike in waders, without ever making a single cast. Generally, on more crowded water, I'll find a decent enough area and if someone's fishing it, I'll ask them which way they're working and if they'd mind if I start fishing the opposite direction. The direction is the key thing there, and it'd take a real jerk to say something like, "I'm fishing upstream, but no, don't fish below me." (If you get a piece of work that says something like that, I think you're allowed to just high hole them.)

If you're trying to catch sockeyes in freshwater and you're not flossing, good luck. If you actually do catch one not flossing that's just dumb luck. Sockeye like most salmon stop feeding when they hit the fresh.

@fishfoolishness4222

Жыл бұрын

P.S. I say cutties because this guy tells me not to.

@33736

Жыл бұрын

100%

@hookedonjuneau6313

Жыл бұрын

Why fish spawning sockeyes in the first place?

@fishfoolishness4222

Жыл бұрын

If you let all the sockeyes spawn, in 3yrs the amount of fish returning to the rivers would be in the millions. That amount of fish all trying to spawn in the same place would be disastrous. Fish and Game in AK does a pretty good job of estimating runs and establishing limits for both commercial and public fisheries.

@hookedonjuneau6313

Жыл бұрын

@@fishfoolishness4222 there are plenty of ways to manage a fishery. If you're suggesting that sport flossing sockeye with fly gear is an effective way of managing return numbers and this is why sport fisherman do it.... Im not sure i can get on board with that explanation. Thank you for the response though.

HEY! you can fish fly, lure and bait!

“HUGE” Is the “GARAND THUMB” of fly fishing world especially the comments section!

It's eyes were on both sides of the boat

I detest “tight lines”. I also detest “disrespectful to the fish”. Unless you’re asserting dominance by placing a boot on its neck as you declare victory, there’s not much more you can do to disrespect the fish than what you’ve already done. The fish isnt aware of the moral/ethical cats cradle we’re navigating. All it knows is it was minding its own business when it got hooked and unceremoniously hauled from the water.

Video idea: Take your kids and go to one of the local park ponds or lakes fly fishing. You could even setup a Huge Fly Fisherman event. I live in Kansas and do not have access to alpine lakes or trout streams so I am stuck gong to local parks or farm ponds. Just show how fly fishing can be accessible to the "common folks".

Is 100 yards too close to high or low hole? 🤔

Thanks Ben, now get off of my lawn. Tight Lines!

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

yes, and "hey hey, hee hee, get off of my cloud" too!! ;D

That'll do

Hey Ben, FISH ON!!! Sorry I couldn't help it. This makes me grind my teeth at night.

To be fair... a LOT of people assume that fly fishing is only for trout.

“Technical” is worse than tactical. Everyone time someone tells me “it’s really technical water” I always ask what does that mean, or just tell them that must mean they can’t catch fish so they claim the water is “technical”

I bet Ben has not done a "Dollar Store Lure Challenge" and I probably won't have to look at his 200 older videos to know. It would be a pretty good challenge for Ben, but he will crush it, along with a few PBRs, or Coors.

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

that's for "bait" fishers, they often have Velveeta on sale there, 2 for one! ;D

Little late but isn’t that guy with no arms the one that was yelling at Dave portnoy 😂

The FLYS thing really gets me. I've even seen big time fly shops do this.

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

a really interesting idea for vid would be for Ben to get some folks on a trip to write down the plural word for fly and see who writes "flies" and who writes "flys", and then see who hooks the most fish. It would be totally "valid scientific research", mind you, I'm sure. LOL. My bet is those who suck at spelling beat those who suck at fishing, but excel at spellin' LOL :D

@RyanB-gi2fj

Жыл бұрын

I mean.. it can bother you guys all you want but that’s literally the trend in marketing lately, finding unique ways to spell everything. Or should I say UNQ MKTNG 😂

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

@@RyanB-gi2fj yup, they call it "text speak", but the young-uns, who are good at it, wonder why they get turned down on their applications for decent jobs that they have to submit!! Except at Wal mart and Whole Foods of course, as long as you have a warm body for the former and tats and dreds for the latter! ;D LOL

@coreytohme9861

Жыл бұрын

@@RyanB-gi2fj Unique spelling has been a marketing technique for a long time. It's supposed to catch your eye because your brain should be telling you it's spelled wrong and make you do a double take. However, the unique spellings are never grammatical errors. You would want a your misspelling to be intuitively obvious that it was done intentionally - otherwise you look like you could be a dumb ass.

Where are we on “ball and chain” for indicator nymphing? Yes it works and yes it’s the primary option in cold weather when you don’t want to “chuck meat”. I’m ok with it but am willing to hear why I need to stop.

Thank you.

Their are so many people who say flys wear they actually mean flies. It’s up to us weather we point it out or not.

Since you mentioned flies, what does the abbreviation “CDC” refer to ?

@hop1414

Жыл бұрын

Serious?

@frankmonroe8320

Жыл бұрын

Flys tyed with a ducks ass.

Noooooo! Not the Taco! C’mon!!

I see I'm not welcome here 😆

Brownies is dumb too!

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

German brown is worser! LOL

I was waiting for "butter," but I understand time constraints

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

yes, and the organic grass-fed non-GMO butter is the best you can get. It's gluten-free too!!! ;D

i think i’m a high holing tactical flosser hooked on pisces hogs

I passed you on I70 last week didn’t I? I have on the fly on my peterbilt but. I fly fish, fly paramotor and always on the go. So hate me!!

Here in new New Zealand we say jacks instead of saying bucks

This from a guy who ‘spanks’ trout.😂 But seriously, I caught some nice ‘throats’ in Idaho this year and some ‘booger’ redfish in the delta, but ‘farmed off’ some Bulls. Not to mention some ‘slab’ crappie and ‘magnum’ spotted bass. But more seriously, my favorite is when guys tell me they caught a bunch of ‘native’ brown trout. Impossible and pretentious!🤦

I always and only refer to my Tacoma as TRD Ferguson

"Not a real fly fisherman." That one bugs me. " You fish for bass, carp, pike, walleye. You're not a real fly fisherman." You use sinking line, sink tip, lead. You're not a real fly fisherman." Bite me. I fly fish, I also spin fish, troll, ice fish I've even been known to spear and noodle fish. Saturday I was icing slabs (crappie) with an ice fly (tungsten jig).

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

yes, on all that, but we all agree that Tenkara is not "real" fly fishing, right Ben! ;D

Farm or Farming!

The tactical one killed me. Why not cutties though? I hear that and cutts quite often

Can we ban “quiver” when discussing rods? I always get a Robin Hood/Men in Tights vibe when I hear that word. And how about protecting a river or a a stream rather than the affected “resource”

Hank Paterson will teach you how to mend

LDR = Quick Release 😂😂😂😂😂😂

On the swing counts though, right? Edit: The only thing that should be calling bull trout, bullies, are small fish

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

I suppose you could call a bull trout a "Bovine", and the fly you catch them on a "wooly bully" after the old rock and roll song!! :D

🤙

Cam we just agree a big fish is just a chonk? Works for cats

How many flys is too many flies?

@jaycallaway7453

Жыл бұрын

No such thing.

So I guess The slang fishy is out :)

Bullies lol we call them bulls in Canada, and we have lots of them. Cutts, not cutties, and we also have lots of them also.

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

and char which are brook trout or brookies or "speckled trout" in the far and furry North,..eh? LOL ;D

@evanhammond7305

Жыл бұрын

@Ron Schlorff no I'm from Alberta we don't call then specks here and we don't have many of them

@evanhammond7305

Жыл бұрын

@Ron Schlorff mostly specks are in Ontario and Quebec and they don't have bulls or Cutts there.

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

@@evanhammond7305 right, you must be out west. I was from Manitoba, and they called them speckled trout. Also, walleyes were Pickeral. :D

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

@@evanhammond7305 I understand!

Harry Middleton versus Thomas McGuane Middleton, definitely Middleton.

In Kenya we say cock and hen for males and females respectively. I believe it harkens back to the British colonial era when they were stocking rainbows and browns.

@ronschlorff7089

Жыл бұрын

yes, and in steelhead fishing, on the west coast of US, the male is called the "rooster fish"!! LOL

Taco Truck Nuts should be a fly name.

multi beer drinker

Can you do an episode called "Fly Fishing SLANG & TERMINOLOGY"? Maybe a second episode, even? Thanks!

I have a “friend” that calls brown trout “butter” and bass tournaments “derbies”. Don’t do that either.

I've discovered the best fly in the world and I'm prepared to share the secret with you, it consist of a 3mm (1/8") glow in the dark pink tube (cut to desired lengt, 2-5 cm or aprox 1/2" to 1.5"), you thread your leader through the tube and tie on a hook of prefered size (depends on the fish you are after) This simple "tube fly" has helped me catch ALOT of fish (i mostly fish for rainbow trout, brown trout and sea run brown trout. Please consider trying out this "fly" to see if it works in your waters on the other side of the earth. Cheers from Sweden!

Funny

"VERY LAME" picture of addicted fishing. yep sounds about right

9:04 someone show this to Bob Popovics

I think basically every Alaska guide teaches flossing for sockeye. It is locally referred to as the “Kenai River twitch” However it is so annoying when people call it flyfishing. I use a fly rod, but I would never refer to it as “flyfishing”.

@ph1shstyx

Жыл бұрын

It should say if you're fishing for red sockeye on their spawning grounds then you have a bad guide. There's really no way to get fresh sockeye without flossing, but it's definitely not fly fishing.

There does exist flies, that are tied with feet.