We Bought the CHEAPEST FLY ROD At Walmart—Will It Catch Trout?

all right we decided to get the cheapest possible fly rod and reel combo that we could find at walmart and see if it catches any fish and uh i'm not i'm not too confident about this john but we're gonna give it a shot you ready we can we can try all right let's go [Music] all right first thing john you went and bought this right i did you got some footage of that i had footage what did you mean you had footage well steve i apparently recorded the whole thing in slo-mo [Music] [Music] dude that was epic i've never seen anybody buy a fly rod with that much drama all right so what'd you get see if i got the uh cortland silver stream oh that sounds like it's gonna catch some fish it's a five six weight okay um it's eight foot okay that that's a five to six weight that's as thick as my thigh yeah dude it's i mean this doubles the tarpon rod so um but yeah we're gonna give it a shot reckon we gotta open that puppy up [Music] all right what do you think man it's very plastic steve you got a leader on it uh i hope so i hope that's what this is there we go all right well steve i gotta turn it around uh you gotta turn it around the reel's on the wrong side man set up for a lefty i think so or i've been fishing lefty my whole life all right let's see what kind of flies they gave us all right oh john i don't know about this like we got an assortment of wet flies here when's the last time you just fished a wet fly i don't know if i ever fished away okay this should be interesting the reason you don't usually see flies like that like this is because they're usually sold out at your local fly shop um but that's a joke isn't it dad that is a joke and so i went ahead and bought these four flies four um bead head nips for five dollars so we have 45 for the whole setup so we're going fly fishing for 45 okay i'm gonna go with this yellow and black fly first i mean i guess we just swing them just swing a wet fly is that how you do it i don't know we're gonna find out okay all right let's do it hey steve you think you can uh go half seas on this with me john we're standing at the edge of a river right now the only thing on your mind is 25 out of my pocket that's it yeah typical [Music] what are you thinking i don't know i think i'm looking forward to catching the fish on a wet flat steve all right with my eight foot fly rod seriously compare that compare the two it's like triple the size all right first cast with a 45 dollar portland five weight how's that how's that feel well it's my uh wet fly if that's what indeed we're fishing with is floating so that's good there it goes it sunk all right okay there we go i can't really i can do some roll cast in here steve maybe we're gonna need some bead head nymphs pretty soon here all right so what do you how are you actually fishing it i'm just swinging it that's all just through these little runs here i don't i don't really know you know i don't uh really know the best way to do this steve i mean that's clear we can't see do you know oh yeah i'm about to catch one unintelligent stock fish come up and hit that [Music] what are your first impressions steve i mean i could see why you'd spend more than 45 on a fly rod yeah but i think it's a good good thing to prove that you can still catch fish with inexpensive gear we have not yet proven that john well it's only been five minutes so should we add a nymph to it i think we oughta all right let's do that all right so we'll just tie a little bead head nymph off the bend of this hook if that helps all right let's go let's go where we know the fish hold and uh we need all the help we can get right now [Music] what size tippet did you put on here 6x that's all i got oh geez that's great well it's all right the uh the tip of this rod is going to protect the tidbit don't worry about it it's nice and flexible all right steve so we know they're fishing this around here yeah the problem is i don't know if we can get deep enough they usually hug at the bottom that's true all right dude this is the last nymph we got it's been rough okay i'm gonna try that again who knows how long that's been sitting in the package yeah that's right that was the package yeah it was definitely a package wasn't your fault no that happens to me like 20 of the time so i'll see if we can get a little deeper if that helps anything all right give it a shot man okay half time for a minute or two it's a little rough out there okay here's we're doing an experiment here john and the experiment is can we catch fish with these flies that come in the box so far answer is no but we need a control for this experiment and the control is can we catch flies excuse me can we can we catch fish on the flies that we normally use so if we can do that then it's the flies if we can't then it's us yeah that makes sense so let's give that a shot all right all right what are you gonna use john well steve i'm gonna throw a few things i got a mop fly okay red copper john and a y2k well you got three on there yeah what are you trying to do trying to catch a fish dude okay hey what you got john looks like i got a little bronzer that's a nice brown trout hey there we go that's a that's not bad for the hooch right there dude that's a nice fish right there yep take it out all right we'll let him go see if he's able to do this we'll go to a different spot and yeah let's go to a different spot let's rig that guy up with some flies we know where how about that well no that's not the that's not the challenge john ah all right don't they say for your name thing you need like a really thick yeah unbendable like a broomstick all right let's try it oh no way no way oh it's the reel's on the other side you strip it in steve oh get your net out steve don't 6x man okay we did it oh look at that look at that oh hang on focus there we are okay all right steve no we don't need a net look at that look at that look at that we did it okay all right well that's that's how you do that john thank you very much for that dude maybe you should try net steve that was awesome let's go fish over here all right let's do it feeling kind of cocky now like yeah but that tight line probably helped the now you got this big belly in your line yeah this is this is unwieldy yeah it does not wheel here we go oh are you kidding me on the silver stream steve grill with your right hand keep the tension it's 6x don't stop what are you my dad i know how to catch a fish is it on the same fly that's it yeah that's so oh there he goes okay there you go graceful once again yep all right all right dude killing it i know johnny got one all right did you get it on the uh cheap rod rainbow you don't see those in the hooch that often that's a good one all right so did you catch it on that 40 rod nope nope john what is this video even about to you know what are all videos about me yeah they're about fishing while i do all the work dude look at this guy though man dude that's nice all right john well since we've proven that you can actually catch fish on a 40 rod with five dollars we paid it i paid five extra for the flies that's right that's right i should say we yeah yeah yeah don't worry about it just gonna keep fishing john come on i'm gonna keep catching speech geez all right clearly john is not interested in continuing the video that we have planned out uh we we proved that you can catch a fish on a very cheap rod with some very cheap flies john you all right back there i was trying to show the camera the fish yeah that didn't work yeah that didn't work and if i remember right who proved that was it it was me that's right it was me it was me i proved it two fish on that rod i'm pretty happy about that anyway thanks for coming along with us if you want to see more videos with mediocre fishermen catching mediocre fish although those those weren't too bad that you just caught those or not oh yeah go ahead and subscribe if you like this video go ahead and give it a like we will see you in the next one bye [Music]

Channel: Good Buddy Fly Fishing

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Length: 10min 58sec (658 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 09 2020