Video: Chasing Pike with Mouse Flies

Our old friend, Rold Nylinder, has been shooting a lot of videos this summer in waters around his home in Sweden. Rather than traveling to rivers where he knows fishing is great, he’s exploring forest streams that may or may not hold fish. In this . . .

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Video: Things Change Fast in Fly Fishing

It’s always exciting when our old friend Rolf Nylinder releases a new video, especially when it features another pal, Håvard Stubø of Jazz and Fly Fishing. Rolf has a unique voice as a filmmaker, and his storytelling is exceptional. Here, two anglers—Håvard . . .

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Video: “Our Good Friend,” the Brown Trout

Here’s another great video from Carpe Diem, about a nice trout that they’d seen a couple of times before but had never gotten to take the fly. They are very patient this time, allowing the fish to move, spook, and then settle . . .

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Video: The Wrong Trout

The Swedish anglers at Carpe Diem shot this lovely video about casting dry flies for wary trout in clear, shallow water. I like the way that their videos have a real narrative, and the shot of the fly . . .

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Video: Trout in Fall Colors

The Swedish anglers at Carpe Diem shot this lovely video about casting for colorful rainbow trout in a small forest lake. The cinematography is really nice, focused both on the glorious autumn . . .

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Video: Dry-Fly Brown Trout in Washed-Out Color

Here’s a gorgeous video from Sweden, featuring several very nice browns eating insects on surface. According to the filmmaker, Jon Hanson, “the weather was a bit up and down, and the fishing as . . .

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