Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 12.29.17

Welcome to the final edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival for 2017, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos available. This week, we’ve got fourteen films that will take you around the world to experience some incredible destinations–from the southern Andes to far northern Sweden, and from that waters off Dubai to The Bahamas. Maybe one of these videos will cause you to make a New Year’s resolution . . . .

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 exactly 1,429 great videos on the site!

We kick things off with a glorious trailer for a film by the InTents Media Group, who traveled to the Canadian arctic in search of giant char.

Disregard the typo in the the title. This video features some stunning shots of fishing in the jungle.

The Bahamas isn’t a flats-fishing Mecca for nothing. Check out this great action from Abaco.

The Ponoi River, on Russia’s Kola Peninsula, is probably the world’s most reliable Atlantic salmon river. Check it out.

Photographer Benjamin Kraushaar and his friend, Anna, traveled to Durango for the holidays and found the fishing to be on fire.

Here’s a quick little edit of a day chasing waterfalls and fly fishing in Patagonia.

Winter fishing off Hilton Head for big redfish looks like fun.

What could be better: fly fishing and wine in Argentina?

The Kaitum River rushes through a beautiful valley, almost unaffected by man, and is known to be one of northern Europe’s best waters for big grayling.

Here’s a beautiful trailer about a journey throughout the stunning and unique landscapes of Thailand in pursuit of the elusive blue mahseer and cultural connections.

Winter is prime time for Michigan steelheading.

Dubai. It’s not just for banking anymore.

Finally, here’s the full, 33-minute film “A Deliberate Life,” which explores the stories of five unlikely friends who share the same love of fly fishing and the outdoors and their choice to lead a life according to their passions.