Welcome to another edition of the OrvisNews.com Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival (F5), in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing footage available. This week’s collection offers some of the most gorgeous footage we’ve ever shown. The quality of the newer cameras is definitely raising the bar for fly-fishing filmmakers. Suddenly, shots of moving water and landscape are as . . .
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Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 01.04.13
Welcome to first 2013 edition of the OrvisNews.com Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing footage available. This week’s collection offers a bunch of wrap-ups of the 2012 season and a whole heaping portion of chrome and steel. New Zealanders are starting to. . .
Read MoreFriday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 12.28.12
Welcome to another edition of the OrvisNews.com Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing footage available. This week’s collection offers a bunch of different locations, covering almost all the continents. But the real story here is the rise of the short video. Oftentimes, when I’m doing my searches to choose the videos for the F5, I wonder why. . .
Read MoreFriday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 12.21.12
Welcome to another edition of the OrvisNews.com Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing footage available. This week’s collection is being posted on what was supposed to be the end of the world, according to some Mayan calendar or something. Well, we’re still here. However, massive winds at the Home Office meant that we were. . .
Read MoreHow to Fly Fish: The Basic Back Cast
In the last installment of “Ask a Fly-Fishing Instructor,” we dealt with the “ready position” and casting from the bow of a boat. In this week’s video, we’ll deal with something much more basic: Making a good backcast. For some anglers, the backcast is somewhat of a mystery, since it happens behind the caster. You’ll often hear casters talking about how they “feel” the. . .
Read MoreFriday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 12.14.12
Welcome to another edition of the OrvisNews.com Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival—we call it the F5, for short—in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing footage available. This week’s collection might be the most eclectic ever, in terms of locations. Check out this list: Norway, Mexico, Australia, Honduras, France, Mexico, Botswana, Wales, and the U.S. Even the videos shot. . .
Read MoreFriday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 12.07.12
Welcome to another edition of the OrvisNews.com Friday Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing footage available. This week’s collection is an eclectic mix of species and locations, several of which we haven’t featured before. There are several videos from filmmakers whose work we’re familiar with, as well as by some newcomers just breaking into the game. It’s always exciting when I come across. . .
Read MoreTuesday Tip #1: How to Make Better Short Casts
In the last installment of “Ask a Fly-Fishing Instructor,” we dealt with how to cast from a boat, focusing on the “ready position” that helps you make quick, accurate casts to an often moving target. A lot of people believe that saltwater fly-fishing requires super-long casts all the time, but that’s simply not true. Sometimes, the fish are quite close to the boat, and you have to make a quick short cast. Of course, these same short. . .
Read MoreFriday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 11.30.12
Welcome to another edition of the OrvisNews.com Friday Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing footage available. This week’s collection probably features more minutes of video than any of our previous attempts. The last two videos alone take almost two hours to watch, so you’ll probably want to save them for the weekend. But there’s plenty for your lunchtime. . .
Read MoreFly-Fishing Film Festival: Black Friday Classics Edition
Welcome to the Black Friday Classics edition of the OrvisNews.com Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival, which features some of my favorite videos from FFFs from the past. (I hope you didn’t stay up all night fighting the crowds to buy a new flatscreen and are awake enough to enjoy these fantastic scenes.) There’s lots of great stuff here, featuring both freshwater and saltwater action, culled from. . .
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