Cool Video Of Trout Grabbing Flies in Flight

[greenghost]

Amazing slow motion of brown trout nailing flies in flight shows how accurate they can be. I've seen largemouth bass do this at Lake Arthur -- not quite to this extent -- but never trout.

 

[PennypackFlyer]

Pretty darn cool!

 

[BrookieChaser]

"He called it shadow casting..."

That was a cool video.

 

[krayfish]

Seriously cool video. It figures all the neat stuff is on the other side of the planet.

If you come to the flat (above the Inn) on Stony Creek in late May / early June......every evening the spinners come down in droves and hover 6"-8" above the water. I don't think they hit the surface until well after dark. The little stockies will jump into the swarms snatching as many as they can. They won't take a dead drifted spinner but will slash at one you pull upstream or if you just waive it around above the water. One of the strangest things I've ever seen.

 

[PennypackFlyer]

I wonder if a fly could be made to mimic the hovering flies?

 

[greenghost]

krayfish wrote:
Seriously cool video. It figures all the neat stuff is on the other side of the planet.

If you come to the flat (above the Inn) on Stony Creek in late May / early June......every evening the spinners come down in droves and hover 6"-8" above the water. I don't think they hit the surface until well after dark. The little stockies will jump into the swarms snatching as many as they can. They won't take a dead drifted spinner but will slash at one you pull upstream or if you just waive it around above the water. One of the strangest things I've ever seen.

That sounds like a blast, krayfish. Its happened to me quite a few times skittering caddis... most fun I've had onstream hands down.

 

[krayfish]

To be honest, it wasn't much fun. I had 4-5 trout in front of me no more than 10' away. Didn't care that I was standing there and continued to leap into the spinner swarms. I dangled 10 different patterns and they'd ignore them. I only caught fish by dragging my spinner upstream on the water surface. I could clearly see them eating the ones in mid air but they'd ignore my dangled offering. Confuzzled. :-D

 

[IdratherbePhishing]

Krays right those stockies go nuts before dark. And it's def tough to get takes. As for getting a fly to fly in the air you could use one of them cheapie toy helicopters lol. I haven't stayed to long after dark but plan on if this year kray. I'm sure you'd rather stand on the deck lol

 

[Night_Stalker]

Just saw this video...talk about nutz

http://vimeo.com/84008985

 

[GenCon]

That was very cool. I have never seen anything like that. Some really nice looking fishas well.

GenCon

 

[salmonoid]

I remember reading a story on Tom Dewey's website about an encounter he had with a brown trout in NC PA. He spotted the trout rising and decided to cast for it. As he cast to the trout, it jumped out of the water, the fly landed in the trout's mouth (or the trout's mouth engulfed the fly, depends on how you look at it), and he hooked and landed it. Pretty cool footage. I carry a video camera some of the time, but Murphy's Law usually dictates that I don't have it when I actually find something cool to film.

 

[lv2nymph]

That'd be sweet to see in person, especially with a rod and the right fly. :-D Very cool vid.

 

[3wt7X]

This video did absolutely nothing to help my cabin fever. Awesome footage and large brown trout treating damsel flies like seals during shark week.

 

[JackM]

Nothing like spinner fall, at times.

 

[djs12354]

Quite the vid. Thanks for sharing!

 

[BruceC2C]

great video
thanks for the post

btw...anyone with a link to earlier mentioned Tom Dewey catch. I came up empty.

 

[salmonoid]

BruceC2C wrote:
great video
thanks for the post

btw...anyone with a link to earlier mentioned Tom Dewey catch. I came up empty.

Tom passed a number of years ago. His website host/ISP pulled the plug on his original website while was still alive (apparently with little warning) and he was in the process of migrating it to another location when he had time but I am afraid it is a site that is lost to history. It is one site I wish I would scraped and preserved.

Edit: looks like archive.org must have brought some more material online since I last checked for it there.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090201000000*/http://www.pennswoods.net/~tomdewey/fishing/index.html

I haven't found the exact article yet, but even without pictures, it's still all a good read.

Edit2: Just found it, under The One-In-A-Million Cast.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070811131738/http://www.pennswoods.net/~tomdewey/fishing/crossfrk.htm

 

[RCFetter]

That Damsels in Distress video is amazing.

 

[boli]

Awesome video.

 

[BruceC2C]

Thank you , for links Salmonoid.
My favorite line from the article below:

The One-In-A-Million Cast

My fishing log from April 20, 1992 doesn't indicate which compelling obligation I was fleeing from, but the Spring day was bright, warm, and the trip to Cross Fork Creek promised much