I hiked 4 hours to catch two 4" brookies in east Tennessee. I'm glad I made that trek.

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds worth it to me! Thanks for watching.

@gtoutdoorexcursions2938

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, did that myself, lol!

@matthewmcnabb6227

2 жыл бұрын

My first trout ever was a 6 or 7” brown trout caught at the end of a day out hiking when I was 12 or 13. That singular tiny fish made the trek so incredibly worth it

5:56 - what a unique looking trout. Nice job, Tristan!

I can't do hikes like this anymore, so Thank You for taking me along on this adventure.The struggle makes the success that much sweeter. What a unique looking trout...you may have caught the biggest one in the creek!

I love getting to see all of these rare trout and sharing your adventures

I am going to live vicariously through you on this one. Thanks for taking us along. What a great fish and high adventure!

Very glad you did this video. Very interesting and entertaining. Thanks!

this was my favorite video of yours! as a michigan small trout creek scout, i know all too well the pain of bushwacking for hours just to find a tiny stream completely unfishable due to brush over, or literally even within, the small amount of water available. makes that one ya get so much more rewarding and awe inspiring!

Amazing!!! Thank you so much for sharing this adventure with us!!! I used to hike into the mountains here in PA to catch native brook trout. Now, with a lot of years behind me and diabetic nerve damage in my legs, I am no longer able to do it. Watching this video really took me back to my younger days!!!

Absolutely crazy looking trout! Props on the push and catch. Definitely worth it in my opinion! Thanks for sharing your awesome adventures with us!

Great to see your efforts rewarded.

Dude! I respect your effort, that’s quite a hike. Loved feeling the nervous anticipation at that big hole, it was high stakes for sure! Glad you landed him.

I admire your dedication to the chase and the effort you put into producing these videos. Congrats on catching a PCT!

I'm pumped for PCT! Thank you for the inspirational adventure 😉

Loved it - beast of a hike. Your initial expectations enabled a winning day.

Very interesting little fish, thanks for taking us along.

Wow. Millions of fly fisherman will never get to experience what you just experienced. Thank you for sharing. And remember not catching fish is not a reason not to post it. We all do that but again it’s the experience not the catch.

Awesome video, really enjoy the journey fishing with you 🤙

Great video and thanks for showing this rarest trout

This is where passion takes you! 👍👍🇺🇸

One of the things I admire about you the most is your determination. That hike, and the difficulty of fishing that tiny creek, are something I'd never do...but I'm so happy you did. Well done!

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I appreciate that. I'm definitely glad I did it!

Gratz! I admire your determination!

Paiute cutt. Well I’ll be. I’ve caught browns, bows, brookies, various cutts, Gila trout and Apache trout, but never heard of the Paiute! New bucket list item! Worth the walk for one fish and the view!🤠

Great video! Way to grind it out and catch one of those beautys! Great size to it too in such a tiny hole! And thanks for the cool story at the end!

Some adventures are about the trip much more than the fish. Thanks For Sharing Tristan.

Nice work man!!! That is super cool and unique.

Cool fish and crazy hike . Well done.

I love watching fly fishing videos for the smaller, more elusive trout.

That trip you did was amazing! ! I really love how you find and catch rare spices. Highlighting them makes the conservation of rare species and habitats doable. You make this world a better place. Huge thanks from Sweden!

That story at the end is pretty cool! Awesome content

Very cool!

Keep up the great work! Love the content!!

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kelley!

Great video , very cool , nice seeing new species of fish 🐠

what an awesome "one-and-done" experience!!

Wow! What a pretty fish.

Who woulda thought such a tiny stream would have large(ish) fish. Incredible. Not wanting to learn tenkara (yet), wanting to do classic fly fishing but the quality of your videos makes them simply impossible to pass over. Great work and love the videos.

Dude i love your videos so much. You are a big inspiration!!!

@TenkaraAddict

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jimbo!

I'm thrilled that you did all that for that single fish! 👍 I've done similar things. As I look back upon those excursions, they are my fondest memories. This will be one of your treasures. ❤️

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

It was a standout adventure, for sure!

That’s awesome, your efforts paid off.

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michaela!

Such a cool looking cutthroat, thanks for sharing the history on them.

Another great video

This is incredible. Wow. What a unicorn experience. It actually paid off. Congrats

Great video, you worked for it!

It is very interesting that you, as an American, are doing Tenkara fishing. (I’m Japanese) And thank you for showing us the wonderful wilderness through fishing. I also love small trout fishing, and like you, I catch and release. Thank you again. from B.C Canada

Beautiful

Love your content. Very well done. Just subscribed.

You earned it! A beauty.

That was very cool.

Congrats! That's truly as hard as I've seen anyone work to catch a trout!

Beautiful. I caught a true trophy Paiute of 11" about 13 years ago is in the Carson-IceBerg. A full day to hike in and a full 6 hours on the water the next day. Solid fish.

Big props for this effort and your successful completion of the quest.

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Now thats my type of fishing keep grindinggggggggggggggggg

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Happy you did it , Tristan! Perhaps i love to fish places like that i'm not sure i would have survived that hike 😂 Congrats to the core!

Really cool fish man. Catching a new species has always been a near-sacred experience for me. Love the new species videos. Great video!!!

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Todd!

Awesome video!! I’ve done plenty of reading about Paiute cutthroats but I’ve never seen video of someone catching them, so this is pretty incredible to me

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

I'm happy I was able to get it all on video. I agree, these kinds of videos are rare. Thanks for watching!

kudos to your perseverance!

I think I've now seen most, if not all, of the videos you've uploaded here. I've enjoyed every one of them. But this is the best by far. Hats off to you for hiking a full day (in and out) to catch one fish. I empathize completely; I'd guess that you think it was worth it? And thanks for the natural history lesson about this strain of cutthroats. I had no idea. Great work by you.

That's a great adventure!

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

It certainly was!

Well done👍👍

Good stuff.

I have three, one week long trips for this summer planned. One in the bighorn mountains for goldens, one in the winds for goldens, and one for bonneville cutts. Cant wait.

I love it - fishing tiny, isolated streams for native (or in this case, transferred) fish. I just got back from Colorado, where I caught some nice Rio Grande cutts, made nicer because most of them were taken with flies I tied myself. However, I have an ambitious plan forming in my mind for next year - a big sweep of the West; I hope to get: 1. Gila Trout, 2. Apache Trout, 3. Bonneville Cutt, 4. Lahontan Cutt, 5. Redband. I've already plotted out a route to hit all the spots.

(Tenkara) fishermen are crazy and... it's so good !

Amazing video. Bravo for long walking route, for catching beautiful rare trout.. wild beauty nature and fish. Thanks for sharing. Best regards from Montenegro sir.

cool landscape, good video!

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Back in the early 1990s I had the opportunity to work on a survey of the Paiute in its native range. The water in sOme of the tributaries was so pure that electrofishing didn’t work. We had to catch measure and release them on flies. Also built a bunch of rock barriers so rainbows couldn’t migrate upstream.

Insane trip in. Glad you got one though. Very interesting fish. I wish I had the variety here in Australia that you do

they are beautiful

Objective is to be outside. The Goal is to catch. You definitely achieved the latter, well done Tristan!!! And such a beautiful trout!! Wow!!!

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, a really beautiful and interesting trout!

great video..i studied these fish and dreamed of catching one but Im much older now and doubt i could make the trip..Thank you for sharing this video it helps satisfy that itch a bit...

It must have been a truly grueling hike. But out of it, you produced a stellar lesson in conservation. Stopping at the capture/release of a single fish _ought_ to be the conservation model for all trout anglers seeking rare species. Thank you for the quite extraordinary example you shared today.

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael. I admit that I probably would have tried to catch more had the creek been better, but it was a good side benefit that it was easier on the fish population there to stop at the one!

Your fish handling is spot on! You should do a video on how to properly handle a fish. There's alot of people that need tutoring in that department!

Very tedious but memorable adventure for such a rare trout.

Glad you're a great handler to trout

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

Chasing natives is where it's at! That spot reminds me of a stream I followed in new mexico to scare up a few 4-5 inch Gila Trout, lol! A great scholar once said size matters not.

Super awesome to think that that little salmonid could survive in those tiny great basin streams

That's dedication!

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

That or obsession!

Great video!

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Kudos for the effort.

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Kudos on the hike and catch. Amazing the diversity of terrain Trout live in. Being from the NE that is not the terrain I think of when Trout fishing comes to mind. One day I'll get out West. Regarding that story, must be a tale. I heard the same exact story only it took place in AZ with Apache Trout.

@michaeltichonuk2176

3 жыл бұрын

I fished the Black last Sept for Apache. I hadn't heard that version. My guide said it had more to do with a doctor and a private pond I think. And we did fish the said pond.

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

I'll be catching some Apache trout in AZ later this summer! Thanks for watching.

@michaeltichonuk2176

3 жыл бұрын

Tristan, get higher up elevation and be advised water flow was 80% low last year. And I never saw so many craws...

Real dedication. 10hr hike for 1 fish.

i have heard that story as well, if you took away all those big rocks and changed the bushes you would have the size of creeks i fish here in the UPPER PENINSULA of MICHIGAN i do real good at catching native brook trout,,, thank you for taking us old guys out fishing

I know the feeling of hiking or riding horses for hours with little reward. Your video was worth it though as I've never seen one of those fish. Thankfully because of your video, I will be satisfied with seeing you catch it and I will never make that attempt to hike for it. :)

I would do it just like you did. Check the box and then back to rational thinking. Great work!!

..there are some rare ones out East...the Sunapee, the Blueback and up here in Canada, the Aurora trout...

This was awesome! I really want to go up and fish for some paiutes but I was wondering if its all the creeks except for silver king creek you can fish. Thank you!

Getting to see that country should make the hike worth it.

Need more subscribers! Some of the best KZread fishing videos around. Beautiful locations.

@darrinjbartlett1994

3 жыл бұрын

Agree 100%!

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I appreciate that!

I've got a handheld GPS on order right now so I can finally get to this small lake and stream in the Northern Sierras that supposedly holds paiute trout. From what I've seen, once the trail leaves the PCT, the trail isn't much of a trail and more of a crapshoot to find the lake.

That was some serious hiking to catch a few fish.

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

"A few." Lol if only.

@johnsmalldridge6356

3 жыл бұрын

@@TenkaraAddict that was me commenting while watching you hike in hoping you would get a few.

epic!

Very cool, except now it is on my bucket list

I had no idea that you can actually fish for them at all! I thought the whole species was off limits until seeing this. Glad you got to see one but it's also a good thing that it's so difficult to get to otherwise it would more than likely quickly get overfished. In a larger stream full of rainbows, browns or brookies there should be at least half a dozen fish in a pool but a stream that tiny likely doesn't have a high fish population. 1 or 2 trout per pool is not good numbers

Congratulations! That was pretty awesome. Still don’t know if a 5 hour hike was worth it though!

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I did it once. I wouldn't do it again!

What region of California! Awesome video man!

@kevinlivengood9689

3 жыл бұрын

They (Piute Trout) were "re-wilded" in the White Mountains, which is the range on the East side of the Owens Valley in either Mono or Inyo counties in Eastern California. His description fits the place. Convectional precipitation takes damn near all water out of clouds coming over the Western slope of the Sierras. The Owens Valley is a desert. As clouds continue to travel East, sans water, there is very little precipitation on the White Mountains. The Owens Valley is only 4K in elevation at Bishop, yet, there are 13's and 14's in the White Mountains. Hence the brutal hike. If you go to a ridge on the White Mountains and look East, you are looking at the Great Basin and probably Death Valley. P.S. the White Mountains are named for the talc that was mined historically (although it snows like hell there). The Basque sheepherder only made the natural evolutionary strain available for transplantation for the right window in time. There were issues above the falls subsequent to milk can transport. The tale of the Basque sheepherder who shot an F-4 out of the sky is epic.

Amazing that there is a self sustained population there.

I caught a DOLLY VARDEN trout at Lake Hood, up on MT. HOOD near Portland OR. It's a prehistoric trout . My brother caught one at BIG LAKE near Anchorage AK. They are gold in color and the best tasting fish I have ever eaten

@es0x

2 жыл бұрын

Dolly varden aren’t gold, but they do get a red belly. They aren’t any more prehistoric than every other salmonid, and they aren’t a trout. They’re a char

Congrats on your goal of catching the Paiute cutthroat trout. My flyfishing club vojunteers assisted in capturing the trout below the waterfall, as rotenone requires a permit to use it in streams. I too didn't know that people could fish for the rare trout. Did you check the Fishing Regs?

Tristian, I look forward every Saturday for your videos... However the Utah Ghost Trout is the Lahontan.. pretty yellow and blue trout... it doesn't take a five hour hike to catch it.. Now the Piute Cutthroat.. we bow to the Master Fisherman who tries to keep his socks dry... Yes, a photo worthy of the wall, Congratulations.

@TenkaraAddict

3 жыл бұрын

I'll catch those Utah Lahontans one of these days. Just need to set the time aside to head out there. It's not exactly on the way to anything!

@EvilBlonde1

3 жыл бұрын

@@TenkaraAddict Which of the 12 Cutthroat Sub-species do you have left to catch ? or was this Piute Cutthroat the last ?

Most of the fish are located right under those bubbles where the water goes over a little water fall. Its a tiny pool and room for a fish under those bubbles. The good news is those bubbles make it hard for the fish to see you but make sure you don't stand where your shadow movements causes them to spook. Theres usually only room for 1 fish in thise tiny holes. Good luck and have fun. 👍

I did once hike 2,000 feet elevation gain to catch one fish. But it was about a 20 inch cutthroat (Colorado River, if native).