Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 07.11.14

Welcome to another edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos available. Perhaps as a hangover from the holiday weekend, the selection was a bit meager—especially on the salty side of things—but we’ve got a cool dozen videos for you. From New Zealand to Lapland, from the Lowcountry to the Rockies, there’s something to please any fly-fishing taste.

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 in regularly at The Tug, the Orvis online video theater. See you next week with a fresh set of films!

We kick things off with a gorgeous short video from Southeast Alaska, featuring a big steelhead and an angler willing to do what it takes to land the fish.

One of just two salty entries of the week, this video takes you to the Sea of Cortez, for some killer dorado fishing.

This trailer for an upcoming video about backcountry fishing in New Zealand delivers on all the great stuff you’d expect, and it bodes well for the final production.

This is a very cool, moody video from somewhere in Lapland, where they clearly grow very large trout.

If you’ve never fished the Green River through Flaming Gorge, this video might cause you to put such a trip on your bucket list.

Here’s a shorty from Croatia, which features some nice scenic shots of the river and a fine rainbow at the end.

Here’s a teaser of an upcoming video, Tall Tails “Legend of the Gurgler”, filmed around Charleston, South Carolina.

What could be better than fishing for huge rainbows and salmon in Western Alaska?

This young man headed to the Alps to catch trout but ended up landing his first ever carp, which weighed in at almost 30 pounds.

Here’s a quick (under one minute) glimpse at New mexico’s Pecos River, which is gorgeous.

Kristian Solli was walking back to camp on Russia’s Kharlovka River, when he stumbled upon two brown trout eating mayfly duns from a piece of foam floating in the river. He just had to make a cast.

This isn’t the highest-quality video, but it highlights the amazing experience of fishing the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho.