Favorite PA FFing YouTube Channels

[moodyblues]

Well, I'm 65, so him being in his early to mid 30's makes him young in my book. 😉

My point is that it isn't like he is a teenager or younger. He is intentionally antagonistic to anyone who tried to tell him anything and acts like an immature, snotty, brat. So, yes he's young, but old enough to know better. I do like when he refers to himself as a "scrub".
By the way, I'll be 70 this coming Sat., so call me a boomer.

 

[djs12354]

My point is that it isn't like he is a teenager or younger. He is intentionally antagonistic to anyone who tried to tell him anything and acts like an immature, snotty, brat. So, yes he's young, but old enough to know better. I do like when he refers to himself as a "scrub".
By the way, I'll be 70 this coming Sat., so call me a boomer.

Hey Boomer, I like your choice of music!

 

[albatross]

Bruno and I actually met Iron Mike from Lively Legz on an undisclosed central Pa stream during the grannom hatch. Great guy.

 

[caddisflyer]

Bruno and I actually met Iron Mike from Lively Legz on an undisclosed central Pa stream during the grannom hatch. Great guy.

With a name like Iron Mike he was destined to youtube fame I guess.

 

[rustbeltwilds]

Brownslyvania. although he hasnt posted in awhile. I enjoyed his simple to understand and straightforward content. And he had a great demeanor!

 

[salmo]

My point is that it isn't like he is a teenager or younger. He is intentionally antagonistic to anyone who tried to tell him anything and acts like an immature, snotty, brat. So, yes he's young, but old enough to know better. I do like when he refers to himself as a "scrub".
By the way, I'll be 70 this coming Sat., so call me a boomer.

Happy birthday Boomer! From one Boomer to another. Today is my actual birthday and I just turned 73 and in complete control of my faculties. BYW what is this thread about?🙄🙄

 

[Roofin' Trouter]

Happy birthday Boomer! From one Boomer to another. Today is my actual birthday and I just turned 73 and in complete control of my faculties. BYW what is this thread about?🙄🙄

Happy birthday!!!🎊🍻

 

[wildtrout2]

Happy birthday Boomer! From one Boomer to another. Today is my actual birthday and I just turned 73 and in complete control of my faculties. BYW what is this thread about?🙄🙄

Happy Birthday salmo, many more! 🎂

 

[moodyblues]

Hey Boomer, I like your choice of music!

Thanks! Funny thing is that's been one of my favorite bands for years. Just happened to be listening too them at the time I signed on.

 

[moodyblues]

Happy birthday Boomer! From one Boomer to another. Today is my actual birthday and I just turned 73 and in complete control of my faculties. BYW what is this thread about?🙄🙄

Thanks! Hope you had a great birthday and many more to come. Depends on who you ask whether or not I'm in complete control of my faculties.

 

[moodyblues]

I think the biggest criminal on Youtube is "Traveling Trout". I have no issue with how he fishes, but I do have an issue with openly naming all of the streams that are the subject of his videos along with all access points, etc. If you haven't watched his stuff, it's 95% all PA Class A streams. Like you, I'm now seeing evidence of increased ****ery on some very fragile streams that could handle a few people now and then, but following his broadcast, fishing pressure has ramped up considerably including increased posting by landowners. I have no issue with people filming videos provided they use some commonsense and discretion.

Yep! Did you ever notice that joker never shows his face. The only way I recognized him up at Slate Run was by his voice and his speech mannerisms.

 

[JeremyW]

Yeah, I agree too - the videos themselves are great!

I'm bitter about a snakehead angling YouTuber posting ONE trout fishing video to his 40k followers that burned a criminally underrated wild brown trout stream on state park land in Baltimore County (not the Gunpowder which everyone knows and fishes) mere months after I'd just discovered it for myself. He didn't mention the name in his video, but he posted one of his catches from that day to Fishbrain, with the location pin turned on. Not hard to figure out.

My first visit there resulted in 10 wild browns from 10-16.5". Since the video, I have seen footprints every time, worm containers, etc and it's about a 50% chance of taking a skunk...keep going back though because it's produced a pair of 18 inchers so it's obviously not completely ruined.

I used to post some videos to YouTube myself, and probably still would, if I could find a way to film them such that all identifying road or natural features are removed. Which is really hard to do and would mean not showing the natural surroundings that draw me to those streams in the first place. It takes too much time to edit even without worrying about blowing up my own secret streams.

spot burning can be a thing, though if it's a state park, I'm not sure it was ever a secret. MD also publishes their stocking info online?

 

[sarce]

spot burning can be a thing, though if it's a state park, I'm not sure it was ever a secret. MD also publishes their stocking info online?

I feel like most public land streams eventually get found. In this case it was an unstocked stream with a fair number of sizeable wild brown trout that was otherwise not documented publicly.

 

[PennKev]

https://www.youtube.com/@chasingthewildwithdustyrho2620

This is not a fly fishing channel, but it is PA wild trout, and it is often jaw dropping.

 

[silverfox]

https://www.youtube.com/@chasingthewildwithdustyrho2620

This is not a fly fishing channel, but it is PA wild trout, and it is often jaw dropping.

What’s jaw dropping is the amount of time he spends handling fish while setting up cameras and photographing grip-n-grins®️. I think I timed the one video at about 5 minutes from the time he hooked the fish to the time he released it and that doesn’t include cuts in the footage. I’m surprised more people haven’t called him out on it.

 

[PennKev]

What’s jaw dropping is the amount of time he spends handling fish while setting up cameras and photographing grip-n-grins®️. I think I timed the one video at about 5 minutes from the time he hooked the fish to the time he released it and that doesn’t include cuts in the footage. I’m surprised more people haven’t called him out on it.

We could probably go through all the channels listed in this thread and find much of the same for much less noteworthy fish.

 

[caddisflyer]

After reading the comments it seems like people watch this stuff and get something out of it but then complain because of poor fish handling and spot burning. What is the overall impact of you tube fishing channels on your personal fishing? Good or bad?

 

[PennKev]

After reading the comments it seems like people watch this stuff and get something out of it but then complain because of poor fish handling and spot burning. What is the overall impact of you tube fishing channels on your personal fishing? Good or bad?

There's a lot to be learned through YT. If you can put your pet peeves aside, it's a good source of new or different ideas.

Personally, I can't stand listening to "Cheech" on Fly Fish Food, but that doesn't stop me from paying attention to the fly tying tutorials and getting new tying techniques, materials, or fly patterns from that channel.

 

[Jay_H]

The fly tying instructional videos are invaluable. While I love having a book in hand for step by step patterns (that’s the sentimentality in me), but YouTube is the here and now. Tim Flagler and Charlie Craven’s videos are just so well done and I learn so much.

When it comes to the fishing…I’d much rather watch New Fly Fisher, Troutbitten, and Orvis channels any day of the week over the spot burning first person videos with guys shouting “Got ‘em!”

 

[falcon]

I learned to tie from books but did take a intermediate group tying class (3 classes) about 12 years ago at the Evening Hatch Fly Shop which was quite good. I sometimes look at a video but would prefer to see pictures with explanation.