Creek Fishing for SKAMANIA STEELHEAD

All right, yo, what is going on guys keeps here it's been a little while since I upload a video I think it's been probably what three or four weeks or something like that. But today I have an interesting video for you guys This is something I've never done before on my channel something I've always talked about and I'm very excited to share it with you today. We are going to be camping This is my brand new tent. Actually. I got this over the winter. I got a nice Got myself a nice sleeping bag in the fall and a nice inflatable sleeping pad And I I'm just excited. I just love this kind of stuff. I don't know It just gets me excited. The weather's finally getting nice out summer's coming around the corner and I this is why I live for it I love going outside camping fishing as you guys know, so the goal today is to catch a skamania steelhead This is the very start of the run. So it's not gonna be a full run essentially yet But we should definitely expect Some fish to be in the body of water that I am fishing. So if I don't catch a fish tonight I'm not gonna eat. So I have what time is it? I think it's It's currently about six o'clock and I think I got a good three hours Maybe a little bit less than that a daylight left. Let's get it Yeah, sure, I was gonna move upstream but it's all good. Oh for sure man appreciate it. Thank you Hi, can I get a the Culver's deluxe, please? I can't hear a single thing. I definitely bought some like really stale marshmallows. It's weird I keep hearing like cows like mooing and then there's like chickens that walk by me interesting little campsite All right. I think it's gonna be time to go to bed It's like 9 30 10 o'clock right now plan on getting up super early I just burnt the last of my firewood right here Wasn't a whole lot but I got us through the night I could I could have definitely like spared it and made it last for several hours but I think I overshot it a little bit, so I'm just gonna burn it all right now and Watch it burn down for a little bit Chill out and call it a night. I'll see you guys in the morning All right 430 Time to pack up the time and hit the road. I'm Pretty exhausted for sure. This is tough Late night lead a crib just for that Be self-sacred hook up right here. Come on such a nice run First ever scam dude, let's go I know the water temperature actually dropped a ton. It'll last like a couple days though. They're dead as dirt though after you Planned on keeping it. I just want to make sure you know, I just try to release them if I can I know peers are a little higher than anything nice though Do you get some sideways as well? Thanks, man Appreciate it first ever scamania A lot of you guys are probably wondering why I keep this steelhead It's simply because this summer run strain of steelhead The water is so warm in these creeks that it does not Revive them and a lot of the times after you catch them they belly up and they die on you So in the most ideal situation, I do not usually keep my steelhead I don't like to due to their high mortality rate because of the warm water in these creeks It's almost inevitable that they die every single time So the most ethical thing for me to do is to keep this fish, unfortunately and eat it It will be put to good use I can tell you that but The chances of its survival of me letting it go Especially I don't know if you guys noticed in that fight how it kind of just completely gave up and I was able to surf It right into the net It it's it's better that I keep this fish than to let it go and let it die and rot on the bank It's the most ethical thing to do. Trust me. I've thought of Absolutely everything I can to keep these fish alive, but just it just says what it is And unfortunately, we have to keep this fish, but it will be put to good use It is a good meat fresh off the lake and It is what it is So, I don't know if I'm gonna fish too much longer if I keep if if I end up catching another one I'm gonna have to keep it and I definitely don't think I want to catch a third one. So I'm not sure how long the fishing is gonna last ideally We would have freaking caught this fish last night. We would have caught this fish last night We'd add a catch-and-cook. We would have had a freaking campsite catch-and-cook and it would have been nice I mean, maybe we could do it tonight. Maybe I could set up the tent again, but It honestly does not sound ideal. I'll probably end up just taking this guy home or flying it somewhere and Just getting meat and throwing it in a gallon freezer bag or something, but At least we're one for one. We're on the board. We got a fish and I'm excited to keep fishing. So let's get it. Alright guys, so briefly I'm gonna go for what I'm using today So for my actual rod, we have a llama glass red line 11-6. We've got the Akuma Aventa Center pin reel nothing too fancy and I actually just spooled this up with 15 pound Monofilament blood run line. I actually really like this line so far. It's not too bad I know some people think it's cringe to have like high visibility line, but it is what it is There's all they had on the shelf. So I was like screw it So I got 15 pound monofilament blood run float line and that is going to be going to an 8 gram blood run float and Just under that we are gonna have two size 7 split shot to a micro swivel which is then being led to 10 pound fluorocarbon maxima With a couple of micro shot in between just to get that spawn sack down to the bottom Which I have not shown you yet. So we've got two size sevens leading to two two BB shot and we have it running down to a size for Skeena hook and A fresh spawn sack from some spawn that I got off a steelhead. And yeah, so we got fresh bags size for hook 10 pound fluorocarbon leader to split to BB split shot size 7 15 pound monofilament blood run float line 8 gram float and then of course the two stoppers right there And it's as simple as that. So pretty easy rig nothing too fancy. Usually I run a double leader setup. I'll run like So if I'm using 10 pound right here I usually run a bobber leader that has maybe 12 pound or something just above it, but nothing more than my main line So usually I have like a foot or two of a bobber leader But in this circumstance, I was breaking off so much and I did not have any 12 pound on me So I just figured I'd run my bobber on the main line this time around and it's working pretty good So yeah, that's the setup right there and let's get back to it And last time I was here, there's this freaking 7-eleven thing here too and all these beer cans I'm gonna pick this up real quick. Nothing like a beer at 5 a.m. Baby. Let's get it we have a lot of room for it, but That's so nasty, man That was your first cast This is a giant fish, I hope you know that