Welcome to the latest edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos available and then serve them up for you to enjoy. It was a pretty slow week, frankly, so I’ve supplemented the collection with a couple classics. But these 10 videos feature plenty of killer action from Maine to Mexico, and from New Zealand to New York. And don’t miss the moving portrait of a veteran suffering from PTSD who finds peace through fly fishing.
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.
We kick things off with a short, one-cast-one-fish video from Maine, featuring a lovely brook trout.
The dog days of summer are a great time to cast for snook from the beach.
The amazing streams of Slovenia produce equally gorgeous trout and grayling.
Dave and Amelia Jensen chase big brown trout on a stunning New Zealand spring creek.
Our colleague Drew Nisbet and his buddies chase tarpon from stand-up paddleboards down to the Mexico.
In the hills of western Massachusetts, there’s a freshwater fishing oasis that fishes well straight through the hottest days of the year.
Brothers By Water is Robert Clark’s journey to uncover how fly fishing took the war in his head and put it on the water to help him find peace. It explores how fly fishing can give our veteran community purpose and freedom from PTSD.
There are good reasons why the Catskills draw fly fishers from around the world.
Here’s a classic from our old friends Rolf Nylinder and Håvard Stubö.
Finally, here’s a full-length episode of The New Fly Fisher from Ontario’s famed Grand River.
