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always the dodgiest part of getting in a canoe but this is my secret
little lake its fed from
a gorgeous little stream just up there
comes all the way down through the woods and I've been kindly got permission to
put a few trout in this lake
ages ago there hasn't been a fish stocked in here for
two years now so the trout in here
only lives on what wild food it can get and I
occasionally fish a trout out to eat that's what we're going to do today
are delicious
going to start off with a nymph called a Montana do think fly fishing is the best way to
catch trout
that is a Montana
Montana's a really common fly everybody uses them for fishing and for good reason
I think that one of the most deadly flies to catch trout in still water is
like this
it's a funny buggy looking thing if you look at it from underneath
can you imagine you're a trout you can really see why they want to eat it
I'm using an orange montana little bit of flash in here
but this water is really clean the trout are in terrific condition
considering these trout have overwintered only living on natural food
and the trout's stomachs will be full of insects there's a few trout rising
and if I don't get any joy with a nymph I'll put a dry fly on
but for the time being we're just gonna drop the anchor cast a few flies
see what we can do
so this is a light little rod I'm using
an eight foot rod four weight which means it's really light not heavy
just gonna cast this fly out
randomly the time being I'm just getting a bit more line out with each cast
and the fly is in the water twitch that nymph
backwards and within a few minutes I hope
something's gonna take in going to cast over this way
yes we're on we're on
look at that fish
every time the fish sees the boat or me the fish kicks off ok this is a strong fish
strong
fish
look at the condition of this fish
honestly this is a lake fish look at this
look at the condition that trout is like a salmon
that
wow
here we go
about a pound and a half
of trouty perfection just everything about that fish is perfect
he's not thin he's got incredible tail
he fought like a demon and I think any fisherman would be proud
to put that in his pan
seven or eight cuts on each side like that to let all the smoke in
spiced mango chutney just delicious
to add sweetness to our kedgeree
eggs on top there
there we have it perfect smoked trout kedgeree