Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 05.11.18

Welcome to the latest edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos available. This was not a banner week, but we still managed to round up eleven videos that will help you daydream about casting for trout, tarpon, bonefish, and smallmouth bass in some glorious locations.

For best results, watch all videos at full-screen and in high definition. Remember, we surf so you don’t have to. But if you do stumble upon something great that you think is worthy of inclusion in a future F5, please post it in the comments below, and we’ll take a look.

And don’t forget to check out the awesome Orvis fly-fishing video theater: The Tug. As of today, there are exactly 1,435 great videos on the site!

Scrambling to the bottom of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison is not for the faint-hearted, but the rewards can be spectacular . . . especially during salmonfly season.

What happens when an Iowan angler finally gets to Montana?

Here’s a classic video, a short profile of tarpon-mad guide David Mangum. The cinematography is spectacular.

In case you missed it earlier this week, here’s Emerald Lafortune’s tribute to her ass-kicking fishing friends.

One of my favorite Todd Moen films of all time, this one takes us to a small Montana spring creek that’s home to some glorious trout.

Off the Grid Studios and Orvis are celebrating the first public release of the fly fishing film “Corazón,” the final of three films that make up “The Scorpion Trilogy.” The Scorpion Trilogy started in 2012 with an expedition to Scorpion Reef in the Gulf of Mexico.

You probably can’t find Lesotho on a map, but it’s home to some glorious landscapes and surprisingly fine trout streams.

Check out this fun look at an all-women guided fly-fishing trip to Christmas Island.

Slovenia features some beautiful trout waters. Here’s a sampling . . .

This is really just a two-minute meditation on why we enjoy being alone on a trout stream.

Finally, here’s another great full episode of “The New Fly Fisher,” in which Jenna and Colin Mckeown chase smallies on poppers in northwestern Ontario.