Fishing The CLEANEST Water Creek In The Backwoods!

Jon genuinely is the GOAT of YouTube fishing. He has come so far. I love you man keep up the good work ❤🙏🏻

love the fly videos. Smallmouth fights on the fly are some of the best fishing experiences you can have. Sure getting smallies on normal tackle is fun, but it does not compare to the fight on a fly rod. Completely changes the experience. Would love to see you go for Steelhead when they are running! Edit: btw bringing a small net is a hugeeee help on the fly. Whenever I forget my net, fish will come off at my feet all the time.

never ceases to amaze me how you came from the suburbs of Chicago and fish like you do in Texasor over seas and especially these wilderness waters of Maine; never afraid of falling, or getting soaked or bruised or cut. Stretching your skills in the wilderness from casting to ocean spinners, now wet fly and dry fly fishing. You definitely are that quintessential example the mantra, KFNS. proud watching you. I am sure your wife and baby girl are too.

6 years ago i stumbled upon Jons channel, and it’s been so long that i barely fish anymore. And somehow he has the power to make his videos not just about fishing, he’s able to connect through the camera which is something that is hard to find for fishing channels. Keep fishing, never stop

Love seeing you back on the fly Jon! Couple of tips for you? 1 - Invest in a coil tray or line tray, especially if you're wading? It's a curved tray that fastens around your waist. What it allows you to do is strip line into it when you're wading so that your line isn't in the water and flowing around your feet? It's easier to play them off the reel using line tension, as you're not worried all the time of a big run and getting tangled up. 2 - When retrieving, I've noticed you use just a basic single pull retrieve? It can make your fly presentation too jerky and unnatural in attracting some wary fish (especially Trout)? If you want a slow continual "swim", especially with a minnow or bait fish pattern fly, try a slow figure 8 in to hand, loop retrieve? If you get it right then you can maintain a constant speed with your lure, then you can also add the odd twitch on the line or two as it's gathered in your off hand? When your hand is full, you can dump the line while still retrieving? Like into a line tray, or the bottom of a john boat...? You can also vary the speed so if you get really good at it, you can do a really fast constant retrieve. The other advantage is that if you see other fish moving in the same area you've just retrieved from, then you can get out to the exact same spot faster, as you're not having to retrieve line from water, which creates drag slowing you down, plus it creates a hell of a noise and vibration through the water. It also means that you're in constant connection with the fly and can lift into a strike better. If you're doing short single pulls to retrieve, then you get a snaking or zig zagging which has dead space in it (15m 35 -> 15m 40 in your video), so that when you strike, you're actually taking up a lot of slack from the line before you set the hook. This can account for a late strike that "looked" on time and good, but was only tightening up on excess line. Might explain some of the "misses" you've had in the past? BTW - when was the last time you stripped the main line off that reel and de-memoried it? It will help get some of the semi-circular looping you see when your line hits the water and puts a bit of life back into the line. You can also get some that helps repair the microscopic cracks you get in fly lines from being constantly wound and stored on the reel. Because of the material it is made of, it doesn't do it much good being sat on it for long lengths of time. Hope this helps somewhat? Tight lines!

You’ve come a long way from catching crappies on cranks off your grandparents place, it’s been awesome watching you all these years

Always love the fly fishing episodes, fun to see you get out of the comfort zone a little and learn as you go

I love the Fly videos and often fish in maine myself. You mention catching a 3 lb trout on fly, I would suggest making sure you fish during the evening, 4pm to sunset, as that is when I catch not only the best fish but also the most. 👍

New brunswick native here would love to see you up here catching those giants put us more on the map as a fishing region

I try and follow as many of your videos as possible. I learn a lot about how to fish. I try to do everything the way that you do it and I've gotten better. Thank you so much Jon for what you do on your videos.

12:06 Jon looking for that double handle of a baitcaster. haha I fish creeks 90% of time and am loving this content.

The bee at 3:07 that landed on his head is hilarious

You are the first fishing YouTuber I started watching have learned a lot from you. Love seeing the fly fishing content. God bless and tight lines brother thank you!

Just when I thought you couldn't improve this smalliefest ,Jon adds the Ramen!

You are a beast for what you go through for your content. Cheers to you.

Yes finally fly fishing videos!!!!

Hey John, love the fly fishing content. I’m an avid fly fisherman and long time subscriber. I also tie all my own flies and do custom orders so if you ever need any flies don’t hesitate to let me know

Keep posting and we'll keep watching! Love the cabin series.

Favorite vid in a long time! Love the Maine content in general but dude. The atmosphere of the whole area you were in and pulling smallies out of the skiniest and clearest of water on the fly was so sick!

We need a part two of this creek ! beautiful area and nice smallies ! - would love to see drone shots of the area and see how long the creek goes !