Fly Fishing for Shenandoah National Park's Native Brook Trout

Awesome video, Matt!! Hopefully tomorrow, I could get some fishing in as well! Tight lines my friend! 😎🎣

Matt, I love it, you are a natural.☕️☕️👍

Really enjoying these native excursions, Matt. Thanks for taking us along.

Really nice video. Thanks for doing what you do eh

Love fishing for brook trout in those small mountain streams. Enjoyed the video.

Those are nice size fish for native rookies! Thank you Matt for the video

Good morning Matt. ☕️. Enjoyed going along by video on your fishing excursion. We finally got some rain yesterday. Not enough to put the fires out but enough to lower the fire intensity. The news coming out of the fires is not good. Lots of homes, cottages, campgrounds and an iconic business were destroyed. The full extent of the damage is still unknown. Sounds like a chainsaw will part of your needed equipment to get into any of the lakes to fish as there are lots of downed trees and likely many more over the next few years. My wife and I were enjoying seeing it green but now it will look like it did when we lived there 45 years ago as it had burned a few years prior. Sad but it’s the boreal forest and fire plays a big role. These fires were huge, fanned by high winds and a number joined as they burned. They now cover a large area in the north central part of the province.

Beautiful brookies matt enjoyed the video due to physical limitations its how i fish these days tight lines 😊

I enjoy these fishing vids! (As well as the tying!)
What is your email address? Obviously wanting to send you something 😂

Excellent video production Matt! I can't figure out if you're Marty Stouffer of Wild America or Robin Hood with those bow and arrow casts I was eagerly waiting for. Thanks for the adventure 😀 👍

That is what I call fishing! Small water, small tackle. Everyone wants to talk about the monster they caught. It is truly more challenging to catch those native trout. I have tried it several times. You made it look easy! Great video!

Beautiful video. Was born in Maine grew up in Massachusetts, fished both salt and fresh water, but my favorite was small streams using worms and small lures with my children and flies when alone. Gave all my spinning equipment to a grandson and fish only flies, but at 76 I stay near the road or fish ponds and lakes. Really loved the video watching for second time. Have a great day!

Great video! Just a beautiful are!

the harder to get to area deep in the brush are the places to find magic, for a while there sounded like a rainforest good show.

Loved seeing this, I fished the same stream and others in the Park before moving to Alaska. Thank you so much for sharing, brought back wonderful memories!

Looks like you had a great time! :)

Matt you are definitely showing us some great Trout fishing in beautiful waters. I love the fact you are adding information on how to approach a hole. Then how to fish the hole. Great tutorial for people new to the sport. In all that you are providing, these are awesome videos. The area, the equipment, the technique and the reward. Making me want to get my feet wet. Thank you for sharing another impressive video filled with incredibly beautiful Brookies. Well done buddy. God bless.

Looks like fun to me. I love fishing smaller water

Beautiful Matt! My kind of fishing.

Matt that was a great video. You used all your skills 😂knee fishing for me is tough as I get older. Love those small stream trout. 👊👍

Really enjoyed your video I fished this river several years a go during August whent the fishing was supposed to be terrible. Like you I caught quite a few brookies out this river and Hog Camp Branch. Funniest thing was I was catching fish with hikers all around me.

Challenging water but you came through and found some good little holes. Glad you figured it out and caught some of those beautiful Brookies.

Beautiful fish and beautiful creek/river.

Really cool Matt! That's the same kind of fishing I do in my neck of the woods, very fun. Tight lines.

Great to see you down my way Matt!! Glad you enjoyed it, and really glad to see the brookies survived the drought. I'll have to follow in your footsteps and shoot my next video there, haha. Tight lines, and thanks for another great, easy watching video!!

Not for nothing, but you didn’t have to say they exact stream names or parking location. Could have just said SNP. All this does is add pressure to specific streams instead of spreading people out to figure out on their own.

Great scenery. Seems the only thing I catch w the bow and arrow cast is my thumb, lol.

That's a gorgeous looking river, Matt. I wish I was with you fishing
Thanks for the video

Wow..What a place! Awesome video! That was a great getaway for me. Thanks a lot Matt. 👍👍👌

Real nice fish!

Brook Trout are great the way they keep coming back to the fly.

There are trout in there I’ve caught them there before

Amazing scenery! Great video.

Thanks Matt.
You brought back many memories of times on those trails. That kind of fishing is hard work and gives equally in rewards.

Great video as always! I've fished that stretch before, and you're right, that walk back up is a doozy! :)

This would be perfect for a Tenkara Rod. Dragontail Talon Mini would be excellent!

I live in the Shenandoah valley and that is one of my favorite places to fish unfortunately it gets packed with people just sight seeing.

Mesmerizing fishing, kind of 'unearthly'. Fish slowly.

That parking lot gives me anxiety. I see cars, I go somewhere else. Humans are there. 😞

Shenandoah has some of my favorite fishing waters! Wish I could make it out there a bit more often.

Thank you for taking us on the visit to Shenandoah. Good instinct to test these waters after a hot season last year. I learn something every time I watch. I’ll be using the bow and arrow cast next time out at the stream below our house.

Outstanding video Matt! This was the Curtis Creek Manifesto personified. ; - ) All the very best, Gordon

Great stuff Matt. That's one of my favorite streams. Looks like you were on Hogcamp Branch the whole time. Hogcamp joins the Rose River about a mile downstream of the fire road bridge at the falls. Did you see anyone else fishing? Loads of hikers.