Jensen Fly Fishing's most-watched video is "HOW TO Fish Woolly Buggers In Rivers" at roughly 488,000 views. The channel's real subject is hunting individual trout: spotting a fish, planning an approach, and making one good cast instead of covering water.
Dave and Amelia Jensen have been filming Alberta trout streams for well over a decade, and the audience that found them did not come for hero shots. It came for the part most fly fishing videos cut out — the twenty minutes of looking before the cast. Below are the fifteen videos the channel's own viewers have watched most, ranked by view count as of September 2026, with what each one is actually teaching.
Who are Dave and Amelia Jensen?
Dave and Amelia Jensen are a husband-and-wife filmmaking team based in Alberta, Canada, who built Jensen Fly Fishing around small-water trout hunting. Their home water is Alberta's foothill streams, spring creeks and rivers like the Bow and the Red Deer, and their travel work runs to Patagonia, Chile and New Zealand. The long-form, ad-free versions of their features now live behind a Patreon membership, so the YouTube channel functions as the public shelf — still long, still slow, still built around sight-fishing.
Jensen Fly Fishing at a glance
- HostDave and Amelia Jensen
- BasedAlberta, Canada
- Subscribers46.6K
- Long-form videos141
- Signature waterSmall foothill streams, spring creeks, the Bow River
- Travel workPatagonia, Chile, New Zealand
- Best forSight-fishing, dry flies, reading small water
What are the most-watched Jensen Fly Fishing videos?
These are the fifteen Jensen Fly Fishing videos with the highest view counts on the channel, read directly from YouTube in September 2026. Two things jump out: the single most-watched video is a how-to, not an adventure film, and nine of the fifteen are built around dry flies or sight-fishing rather than covering water.
| # | Video | Views | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HOW TO Fish Woolly Buggers In Rivers | 487,638 | 21:01 |
| 2 | "IMMERSION" - Dry Fly Fishing the River of Dreams - Patagonia Brown Trout Fly Fishing Part 3 | 481,105 | 46:42 |
| 3 | Spring Creek Fly Fishing for Brown Trout - 2 Spring Creeks on 1 Incredible Afternoon Fly Fishing | 272,659 | 24:29 |
| 4 | Fly Fishing Alberta's Ram River Canyon for Cutthroat Trout - Multiple Fly Fishing Tactics | 200,991 | 29:43 |
| 5 | Fly Fishing Chile's RIVER OF DREAMS - the FULL FILM - Fly Fishing Brown Trout - Magic Waters Lodge | 191,700 | 1:48:17 |
| 6 | Fly fishing for brown trout on the edge | 179,883 | 9:02 |
| 7 | Fly Fishing HUGE BROWN TROUT in tiny water. The art of hunting brown trout EPIC | 178,712 | 47:58 |
| 8 | Land of GIANTS: THE GENERATIONAL GRASSHOPPER EVENT! Big Rainbow Trout, Clear Water & GRASSHOPPERS | 175,998 | 14:11 |
| 9 | Two-Foot Brown Trout on the Dry Fly! Fly Fishing Dry Flies for a Big Brown Trout | 130,959 | 8:20 |
| 10 | New Zealand Brown Trout - Fly Fishing Gin-Clear Water in STUNNING Beech Forests for Brown Trout | 101,824 | 31:20 |
| 11 | Impossible Brown Trout! Fly Fishing Small, Willow-lined Brown Trout Streams. Rising Brown Trout | 98,668 | 19:01 |
| 12 | Patagonia Dry Fly Fishing - Rainbow & Brown Trout on Dry Flies in GIN-CLEAR WATER IN PATAGONIA! | 89,125 | 39:37 |
| 13 | Fly Fishing Patagonia - Back Country Brown Trout Fly Fishing. Fly Fishing Mayflies & Streamers | 85,928 | 31:20 |
| 14 | Patagonia Beetles - Dry Fly Fishing BIG Beetle Patterns for Rainbow Trout in Patagonia. | 85,177 | 17:55 |
| 15 | How to Fly Fish a Mayfly Spinner Fall | 83,581 | 45:31 |
HOW TO Fish Woolly Buggers In Rivers
The channel's most-watched video is also its most practical. Dave works through why a woolly bugger keeps producing on rivers where nothing else does, and more importantly how he moves it — depth, angle, and the speed changes that turn a follow into an eat. It is a rare piece of fly fishing content that spends more time on retrieve mechanics than on fly recipes.
What to steal: Change the speed of the retrieve, not the fly, when a fish follows and refuses.
No. 2 · 481,105 views"IMMERSION" - Dry Fly Fishing the River of Dreams - Patagonia Brown Trout Fly Fishing Part 3
A feature-length dry fly film shot on a Patagonian river, and the clearest example of the Jensen method at full length. Very little of the running time is casting. Most of it is two anglers reading a rise, deciding which fish is worth the approach, and getting into a position where one cast can work. The pacing is the point.
What to steal: Pick the fish before you pick the fly — most refusals are position problems, not pattern problems.
No. 3 · 272,659 viewsSpring Creek Fly Fishing for Brown Trout - 2 Spring Creeks on 1 Incredible Afternoon Fly Fishing
Two spring creeks in a single afternoon, which makes this an unintentional comparison piece. The same angler, the same flies, two very different sets of conditions, and you get to watch the adjustments happen in real time. Spring creek water is unforgiving about drag, and this video shows the leader and approach changes that fix it.
What to steal: On spring creeks, lengthen the leader and shorten the cast before you change the fly.
No. 4 · 200,991 viewsFly Fishing Alberta's Ram River Canyon for Cutthroat Trout - Multiple Fly Fishing Tactics
Cutthroat in a canyon, and the most tactically varied video on the list — dries, nymphs and streamers all get used depending on what the water is doing. Canyon water changes character every hundred yards, and this is a good study in matching the method to the pocket rather than fishing one rig all day.
What to steal: Let the water type choose the technique; canyon runs can need three different methods in one afternoon.
No. 5 · 191,700 viewsFly Fishing Chile's RIVER OF DREAMS - the FULL FILM - Fly Fishing Brown Trout - Magic Waters Lodge
The full-length Chile film, nearly two hours, shot around Magic Waters Lodge. This is the channel's destination showcase rather than a tutorial, but it is genuinely useful as trip research: you see the water types, the fly sizes, the wind, and the realistic ratio of fish spotted to fish landed on a Patagonian brown trout river.
What to steal: Use long destination films as trip research — watch the wind and the walking, not just the grip-and-grins.
No. 6 · 179,883 viewsFly fishing for brown trout on the edge
Uploaded in 2009 and still in the top ten, which tells you something about how little good edge-water content exists. The premise is simple and undersold: the best brown trout in a river are often sitting in the soft seam just off the main current, not in the middle of it. Short, old, and still worth eleven minutes.
What to steal: Fish the soft edge water first — the biggest browns sit off the main current, not in it.
No. 7 · 178,712 viewsFly Fishing HUGE BROWN TROUT in tiny water. The art of hunting brown trout EPIC
Forty-eight minutes on hunting big brown trout in water small enough to step across. The value here is the failure rate: you see the spooked fish, the blown approaches and the long waits, which is a truer picture of what targeting a single big brown actually involves than most channels will show.
What to steal: On tiny water, approach from downstream and stay low — one bad step ends the pool.
No. 8 · 175,998 viewsLand of GIANTS: THE GENERATIONAL GRASSHOPPER EVENT! Big Rainbow Trout, Clear Water & GRASSHOPPERS
A genuine hopper boom year on a small tailwater, and a good primer on terrestrial fishing when the naturals are everywhere. Dave gets into why a big hopper moves fish that ignore everything else, and what happens to the eat when trout have seen a thousand real ones already.
What to steal: In a heavy hopper year, change the drop angle and the plop — the noise of the landing is part of the trigger.
No. 9 · 130,959 viewsTwo-Foot Brown Trout on the Dry Fly! Fly Fishing Dry Flies for a Big Brown Trout
Amelia hunts a two-foot brown on a dry fly and the cameras stay on the whole sequence. It is short by Jensen standards and works well as an entry point to the channel: one fish, one approach, one eat, with the decision-making audible throughout.
What to steal: A big brown on a dry usually gives you one shot — wait for the rhythm of the rise before you cast.
No. 10 · 101,824 viewsNew Zealand Brown Trout - Fly Fishing Gin-Clear Water in STUNNING Beech Forests for Brown Trout
New Zealand beech forest water, gin-clear, with the visibility that makes NZ fishing famous and brutal. This is the Jensen approach applied to the hardest sight-fishing on earth, and a useful companion to the two New Zealand channels elsewhere in this library.
What to steal: In gin-clear water, your shadow and your line flash matter more than your fly choice.
No. 11 · 98,668 viewsImpossible Brown Trout! Fly Fishing Small, Willow-lined Brown Trout Streams. Rising Brown Trout
Four small willow-lined streams in one day, with rising brown trout in water that most anglers would walk past. The tight-quarters casting is the lesson — bow-and-arrow deliveries, roll casts and sidearm shots under branches, all shown rather than described.
What to steal: Learn two short-range deliveries; on willow-lined creeks a normal overhead cast is useless.
No. 12 · 89,125 viewsPatagonia Dry Fly Fishing - Rainbow & Brown Trout on Dry Flies in GIN-CLEAR WATER IN PATAGONIA!
Patagonian dry fly fishing in clear water for both rainbows and browns. Where the Immersion film is a mood piece, this one is closer to instruction: fly sizes, leader length, and how the takes differ between the two species on the same water.
What to steal: Rainbows and browns eat the same dry differently — adjust your hookset timing per species.
No. 13 · 85,928 viewsFly Fishing Patagonia - Back Country Brown Trout Fly Fishing. Fly Fishing Mayflies & Streamers
A backcountry day in Patagonia with a lodge guide, jet boat access and a mix of mayfly dries and streamers. Good for anyone weighing a guided Patagonia trip: you see what a full guided day actually looks like, travel time included.
What to steal: On a guided day, ask the guide to explain the water read out loud — that is the part you take home.
No. 14 · 85,177 viewsPatagonia Beetles - Dry Fly Fishing BIG Beetle Patterns for Rainbow Trout in Patagonia.
Big beetle patterns for Patagonian rainbows. Terrestrials in Patagonia are a bigger deal than most visiting anglers expect, and this video makes the case for fishing an unreasonably large foam beetle with confidence rather than sizing down.
What to steal: Do not size down your terrestrial out of nerves — a bigger beetle often gets a more committed eat.
No. 15 · 83,581 viewsHow to Fly Fish a Mayfly Spinner Fall
A straight instructional on spinner falls, which are the hatch most anglers miss because it happens in poor light and the flies sit flush. Dave covers timing, spotting the rise form, and the presentation change that separates a spinner fall from a dun hatch.
What to steal: Spinner rises are subtle and rhythmic — fish a flush-floating pattern and set on the rhythm, not the splash.
Who should watch Jensen Fly Fishing?
Jensen Fly Fishing rewards patience in the viewer the same way it rewards patience on the water. The videos run long, the narration is calm, and a good stretch of most films is spent watching a fish that has not been cast to yet. If you fish small water, if you want to get better at spotting trout before you spook them, or if you are trying to slow down a habit of casting first and looking second, this is the most useful channel on this list.
Watch this channel if…
- You fish small streams, spring creeks or clear freestone water
- You want to learn sight-fishing rather than blind-covering water
- You are willing to watch a 45-minute film to pick up three ideas
- You want technique shown in real conditions, not on a lawn
- You are planning a Patagonia or New Zealand trip and want to see the fishing honestly
Skip it if you want short, punchy, algorithm-shaped content. Jensen videos are films. The most useful ones are also the longest, and the channel's best instructional material now sits behind a paid membership rather than on YouTube.
How does this connect to the podcast Tip Library?
The Jensens' whole approach — look, plan, then cast once — lines up with one of the most repeated pieces of advice in the Fly Fishing Insider Podcast Tip Library. Guests say a version of it constantly: the drift you build before the trout can see you is the one that gets eaten.
From the Fly Fishing Insider Podcast Tip Library
“Build a throwaway drift before the trout can see it - make your first drifts well below or beside the fish to check drag, mend timing and depth, so the drift that actually goes over the fish is already dialed in.”
Read the full tip → · Browse all 364 tips in the Tip Library →
Where this sits in the Tip Library
This breakdown is part of the video shelf of the Fly Fishing Insider Podcast Tip Library — the same library that holds 364 tips pulled from 225 podcast episodes. The other three channel breakdowns:
- Trippin On Trout: the 15 most-watched videos, broken down
- Trout Hunting NZ: the 15 most-watched videos, broken down
- Gill Seekers (formerly FishingCircle): the 15 most-watched videos, broken down
- The full Tip Library pillar — 364 tips sorted by region, species, water and topic
Want this fishing, not just the footage?
The Jensens' travel films are shot in Patagonia, Chile and New Zealand — all destinations the Fly Fishing Insider Podcast books through our Frontiers Travel partnership. If a video on this page made you want to go, we can help you plan the real trip.
View counts, publish dates and run times were read directly from YouTube on September 17, 2026 and will drift over time. Videos are embedded through YouTube's standard player; all footage belongs to Jensen Fly Fishing. The Fly Fishing Insider Podcast is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or paid by this channel — we recommend it because our listeners keep asking who to watch.
