Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 05.25.18

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. Thirteen seems to be a lucky number, and we’ve got a baker’s dozen videos for the second week in a row. There’s a salty flair here, so you flats fanatics will be happy. But trout nuts need not worry: there’s great action from South America to Ohio to Colorado.

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!

We kick things off with some sweet trout action from Chilean Patagonia, where many big fish are caught and then released unharmed.

In the heart of farmland, the Mad River is a fantastic piece of technical water, and this video makes it look gorgeous, too.

Saltwater fly fishing in Mexico looks like a blast in this clip from Roundhouse (who might wanna check their spelling in the title).

Some friends fly fishing is a great way to test out the capabilities of your new mirrorless digital camera.

Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions went to Argentina, and all we got was this cool footage.

Fly-fishing humor is tough, but Joey Mara and the crew at Waist Deep Media aren’t shy about taking a big swing at how overdone some fly-fishing videos can be.

Check out this cool drone footage of an angler casting to a pod of redfish.

There’s a good reason anglers are flocking to Cuba, now that it’s open to U.S. anglers.

This is an ad, but there’s plenty of great information and cool footage of golden dorado. You can stop watching around 3:15.

Trout are beautiful. ‘Nuff said.

Here’s a nice, self-shot shortie about a day on Idaho’s Salmon River in March..

Saltwater Tenkara can’t be done, right? Wrong.

Finally, here’s a killer episode of “The New Fly Fisher,” featuring a lesson on nymphing from the great Joe Humphreys. Every angler can learn something from this.