Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 06.12.15

Welcome to our latest edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival, featuring the best videos from around the world. This week, the Scandinavians have taken over, producing six of our fifteen videos. The visuals on some of these are simply stunning, featuring northern lights, huge rainbows, and plenty of killer trout. There’s some salty goodness thrown in, as well.

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 all-new, improved Orvis fly-fishing video theater: The Tug. As of today, there are now 694 great videos on the site!

See you next week with a fresh set of films!

We kick things off with just over a minute of gorgeous footage shot in northern Sweden and featuring some sweet brown trout.

Here’s a fun mashup of bonefish and snook action, involving some trouble with the mangroves. Warning: a little language here.

This is simply stunning. A group of anglers makes a journey north in February to chase sea trout in the fjords of Norway.

I guarantee that this is the most beautiful panfish video you have ever seen, shot at dawn in New York’s Adirondacks.

As a boy, Laurens Bubendorfer was captivated by a photo of the Soca River in Slovenia, and now he’s making a film about it. Here’s a sneak preview.

Right now, it seems like the Scandinavians are in a league of their own when it comes to fly-fishing videos. Here’s another stunner from Sweden.

Casting to triggerfish looks to be exciting, maddening, exhilarating, and exhausting, all at once in this video. Sounds like fun.

From France comes a little Tenkara action, shot in the Basque Region of the Pyrenees.

More gorgeous footage from northern Sweden, as two brothers chase trout on dry flies amid a majestic landscape.

From Sweden to Norway: here’s the final instalment of the Rodtrip “Fly Fishing Lapland” series. Some great dry-fly action here, as well.

Featuring none of the leaps and trophy shots you’ve come to expect, this video about tarpon fishing still offers a compelling view of the experience.

If you like big brookies, like I do, you’re gonna love this.

The Little Truckee River is the scene of Mark Rutherford’s musings on what fly fishing means to him. Shelby is along for the trip.

This is a longish but beautiful video about one of the pioneers of fly fishing in Lithuania. His perspectives on the sport and conservation are valuable.

This is long, more than twenty minutes, but it’s a very compelling story from PRESSLAUNCH about the history of saltwater fly fishing in Florida, especially the boats involved.