Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 11.20.15

Welcome to our latest edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival, made up of the best videos from around the world. This week, we feature sixteen videos featuring a variety of species, including trout, tuna, bass, and pike, and taking you to places as diverse as New ZEaland, France, and Upstate New York.

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 943 great videos on the site!

See you next week with a fresh set of films!

There isn’t much fly fishing in this tribute to autumn in France, but the whole thing is just so gorgeous, you’ll want to watch it,

From Italy comes this gorgeous video, which is really just a collection of short scenes that capture the joys of fly fishing.

A 24-hour trip into the New Zealand backcountry offers gorgeous scenery and some fine trout.

This collection of scenes from two years on the water offers a little bit of everything. Warning: a bit of salty language.

This video about pike fishing in Ireland features a stunning fish at the end.

If you like videos with a narrative, the latest from Livit Films offers a tale of struggle and success in Upstate New York.

Here’s a trailer for what looks to be a great pike-fishing video, with some innovative camerawork and fantastic snot rockets.

Catching a bluefin tuna on a fly rod is a lot of work, as this video from the Atlantic coast of France shows clearly.

Every year, a trout camp for kids in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, offers lessons in fly fishing and conservation.

Here’s a pretty video from Colorado by John Wilcox and featuring anglers on a small backcountry stream.

Do they have black-bass fishing in Spain? Why, yes, they do, and it looks pretty good.

Some sweet small-stream action for brown trout is the highlight of this video from a canyon in Slovakia.

The Deerfield River in western Massachusetts is a great place for a long float and the scene of some good fall fishing.

This isn’t a great video, but I love to see new species on the F5, so here’s a Malaysian giant gourami on the fly!

This is cool: two Catholic priests use fly fishing to explain the latest encyclical from the Pope. Even if you’re not religious at all, you’ll find some great stuff here.

We finish up with a gorgeous video about a Norwegian fly-fishing paradise. Click the “CC” button for English subtitles.