Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 08.31.18

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 week, we’ve got a dozen videos, with a distinctly American vibe. Not many exotic destinations, just some good ol’ down-home fishing.

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.

We kick things off with a beautiful short from Arkansas’s Little Red River, featuring some lovely cinematography.

Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions spent some time in northwestern Montana with guide Tim Linehan and captured him enjoying an afternoon off.

Here’s a fun little video about a short bonefishing escape down to Mangrove Cay.

Plenty of killer scenery and great fish from British Columbia’s Skeena River in this video from AOS Fly Fishing.

We don’t see a lot of tiger trout here on the F5, so it was cool to run across this short video from Chasing Scale.

Dan Deublein, an Arizona native, returns to the White Mountains where he grew up. Through fly fishing, he finds a deeper connection and recognizes the need to protect it.

Musky on the fly is still on my bucket list, so I love to see videos like this one. More, please!

Taylor Joyce moved to the Smoky Mountains for the fly fishing. Here, she shares her love for the South Holston River.

Evan Martin throws streamers in high water for wild brown trout in the mountain streams of southeastern Pennsylvania.

Missouri isn’t known for its fly fishing, but this view of the Meramec River makes it look pretty appealing.

Professional fly tier Merne Judson of Gunnison, Colorado, reflects on 50 years of fly fishing and tying flies

Finally, here’s a gorgeous film from Brothers on the Fly about a quest for marble trout in Slovenia and about the dangrs of taking fly fishing too seriously.