This video has been picked up by Fly Fisherman Magazine for inclusion in their destinations video. It's impressive in so much as we'll never know exactly how large the trout was, though it remains one of the largest we've hooked on the dry fly while videotaping.

We drift on a beautiful evening. We'd escaped the thunderstorm that had moved to the north of us and the evening shadows crept over the river on the west bank. We knew of a huge trout on this bank from previous trips, though never having a sniff of a chance of catching it. We knew it was large from those trips, but we'd ultimately spook it as it had a huge feeding cycle of 40 yards. It would move up to a rock at the head of its run, then cycle back down to the smooth rock at the tail end. Anxious approaches to follow the fish upstream, poor casts into the fish' feeding zone at the wrong moment, or the trout just not being terribly active as we arrived during poor hatches. Every time we had little chance, until this evening. Our guest moved into position, we stayed on the back end of the run, the hatch had the monster looking up, we were patient for the hour it took to time the casts to meet the trout's feeding patch cycle, the right fly, the right cast... the fish rose in front of us then moved up, way up and cycled back down again. It rose under the third eye from the top of his fly rod, then up 5 feet. We all froze. It rose 15 feet in front of us. The cast... a lucky take. An unlucky finish!