Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 12.28.18

Welcome to the last edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival for 2018! Every week, we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos available and then serve them up for you to enjoy. This week’s collection features an eclectic mix of species and locations, taking you from the jungles of Brazil to the north of Sweden and from the Florida coast to Green River, Wyoming. There’s something for everyone one to enjoy. Here’s to a great 2019 in fly-fishing video!

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 more than 1,250 great videos on the site!

Rolf is back! It’s been a while since our old pal, Rolf Nylinder, has made fly-fishing video (and you’ll see why here). Here, he makes an epic journey with Håvard Stubø, of Jazz & Fly Fishing, to a river in northern Sweden in search of mayfly hatches and big browns.

What’s better than a Todd Moen video? A “best of” Todd Moen video! Here are some of the highlights from his 10 years of making Catch Magazine films.

Fly-fishing In Sarasota County, Florida, Capt. Rex Gudgel scores an unofficial slam–redfish, snook, and tarpon–with some assistance from Steve Hall.

Winter is a great time to be fishing on the Great Lakes tributaries near Buffalo, New York.

The Kingdom of Lesotho, in southern Africa, offers fly-fishing in an exotic valley, plus the rainbows and yellowfish are remarkable.

Fishing right in the middle of Green River, Wyoming, produces some wonderful trout and fun for the dog.

Winter in Iowa’s Driftless Area means cold-weather trout fishing and few other anglers.

You don’t need to speak Portuguese to enjoy this video of Tim Rajeff and Katherine Hart casting for peacock bass in the Brazilian Amazon.

Watching from above, as an angler casts to cruising redfish, offers a fascinating perspective.

This is a long (14 minutes) but beautiful video about fly fishing on some spectacular rivers in Swedish Lapland.

A group of anglers trying to complete the Utah Cutthroat Slam head to a small stream in search of Bear River cutthroats.

Here’s a stunning look at some incredible South American fly-fishing destinations, featuring spectacular scenery. That’s a plethora of adjectives, innit?

Finally, here’s a moving news report about a fly-fishing retreat for veterans on California’s American River.