Thanks for putting that one up Tristan!
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This week’s video shows one of my favorite creeks that I fished in 2019. Incredible scenery and amazing fishing for native rainbows.
(Direct YouTube link)
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Tristan,
I love your videos. My son-in-law, Steward, found your videos on You Tube and he really enjoys them
as well. Great job. Keep up the great work.
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Thanks Mike! I plan on keeping up the weekly video pace this year 
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Here’s this week’s video. One of my favorite things to do is just scour Google Maps to find obscure, unassuming little streams. This one is a perfect example. It’s not the kind of place you’d travel hours to get to, but it’s home to beautiful little native fish, and of course I didn’t see anyone else there.
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I decided to do something a bit different for this week’s video. I bought a 4-pack of wet flies at Walmart and set myself the task of catching fish on each one. I also used the Zen Tenkara Suzume rod, which I haven’t used in a while. I love my Dragontail Mizuchi but realized that I lose more small fish with that rod than the Suzume (which makes sense; the Mizuchi was made for small streams that can have pretty big fish in them). So when I go to a stream that I’ve fished before and know that it has mostly smaller fish, that’s the rod I take.
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LOL! That’s the spot I usually start also! It’s a fun stream before the RVs come in.
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Got a couple of videos to share here. The first is from Utah Tenkara on YouTube (who I’d planned on meeting up with sometime in April, but the coronavirus obviously but the kibosh on that). He catches some really nice fish!
And then here’s my latest video where I try out my new Shimotsuke Kiyotaki 180.
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Since I’ve been back in the States (as of March 29th) I’ve fished most every day. I fish my usual 1.5-2 hours a day and have been thoroughly enjoying myself. I decided to make a Vlog on one of the days. I don’t have my iMac with me so I can’t use the video editing software I normally use, so I downloaded a free video editor and gave it a try. I’m not sure I like it, but it will have to do for now. After all, I make these Vlogs for my own personal documentation and not really for an audience, so they are a little rough anyway!
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Great to see you back! Nice fish in that river, and I enjoyed the video.
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Welcome back, Tom. Glad you made it home safely and didn’t get stranded considering the limited international flights at the moment. Thanks for sharing.
Nice to see you back Tom. Not many “Oh no’s” as in Tristan’s videos. 
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Nice video looks like lots of fun! You just need more flinging of fish to net from a great distance that we get in Tristans videos 
Of course those fish are too big for that.
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New one from yesterday. Lots of people in the mountains escaping home arrest (shelter in place).
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Welcome back Sir!
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Funny, as I was having my coffee I wondered when Tom Davis was going to post a video and, “Voila”.
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Here’s my video that I posted yesterday. This creek is very close to where I used to live (I just moved away two days ago), and I finally got around to fishing it. I think I should have paid more attention to it sooner!
And here’s a brand new video from Utah Tenkara. As stated in the video’s description, he’s fishing the East Fork of the Bear River in Utah’s Uinta Mountains for some native Bonneville cutthroat trout. Beautiful stream and beautiful fish!
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Tristan,
Very nice. Looks like fun especially the follow through on that pool.
I just wanted to mention something that came to mind on the fish you lost at that pool. Even the successful landing was almost a loss. There is something in the engineering of a traditional tamo that is just better for tenkara, small water, or an angler who does not wade deep. Deep being… above the knee.
A traditional flyfishing net I suspect is engineered and works best with a deeper wading angler. The angler submerges half or the whole net and guides the fish into it. On dry land or shallow water it is not exactly as graceful or effective. I have the folding net you use and ever since i went to a tamo I have never gone back. Most trout to 13 inches can be landed in a 24 cm tamo. I like the smaller sized tamos because most wilds are below 13 inches…and that size can handle them easily.
The benefit of the tamo…is the angle. It is engineered for what we do. That angle makes it easier to align the open face of the net to the fish without being a contortionist. There is also something peculiar about the design, but ever since I saw that Japanese angler bounce small fish from hookset into his net…I cannot help but do it myself on occasion. It is both fun and effective.
I know when fish spaz and tailwalk, there is not much an angler can do. One thing I will do and try to employ with smaller fish is keeping them from going airborne. Keeping them in their element a few seconds longer after hookset makes them easier to guide to net.
I hope you find the info useful.
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I’ll take your word for it, as I’ve never used a tamo. The net I was using in this video is a Handy Pak Net, which is a bendy spring steel rim. I don’t love it. It’s collapsed on itself several times when I’ve gone to net a fish (as you can see at 4:15 in this video) or in very swift current. I much prefer my standard Measure Net.
“[E]ver since I saw that Japanese angler bounce small fish from hookset into his net…I cannot help but do it myself on occasion. It is both fun and effective.”
I do this all the time. Works great! 
Here’s another Vlog. I fished a new-to-me creek during runoff. If I had only picked up a cutthroat I would have had a grand slam. No music on this one; just me talking.
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