Videos
Jurassic Lake, Argentina – The Greatest Wild Rainbow Trout Fisheries In The World
Latest video from Loop Media. All I can say is….Damn! I wanna go!
Beer Tricks and Fly Fishing
It’s a well known fact that as a fly fisherman you never stop learning. Each trip out to the water can bring new chances to improve as you pick up skills passed on through ancient teachings. And once in awhile the tips you find are not always related to casting at fish or choosing a fly. This is exactly what I found out on a recent trip with the guys from the film tour joined the LOOP Army on the Coeur d’ Alene river following the show. While taking a break on the side of the river we learned a very valuable way to quickly prep a beer can for shotgun drinking… and I have to say it was the coolest bit of schooling I’ve had on the river in a long time. I may be soaked in beer but damned if I don’t perfect this art!
It’s Old School
Ah… Sunday night and nothing to do. This is what happens when you get bored and start looking for old fly fishing videos. I messed around looking for some vintage fly fishing stuff, but it was the Youtube search for “old fly fishing” that landed me this gem. Royal Wolf? Check. Chuck Norris 80′s cut? Yup. Plaid shirts… you betcha. Oh and let’s not forget the three guys fishing within 4 feet of each other all casting in different directions. Impossible? Nothing is impossible when you’ve downed a six pack of Old Milwaukee my friend.
Japanese Sea Bass With a side of LOOP
The LOOP Army has no boundaries. It was great watching these guys ripping up some Japanese Sea Bass but I found myself seriously impressed by the night footage of the city. I was lucky enough to visit Japan once and now I’ve got a spot to visit when I make it back again! More vids on their Youtube page… or if you feel lucky (or read Japanese) you can try to dance around the website.
Seasons On The Fly Icelandic Brown Trout Teaser
Check out this teaser for an upcoming episode of Seasons on the Fly.
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a BACKYARD in NOWHERE
I can’t wait to get a hold of this film. The trailers are just sick! Huge pike, bloody hands, great film work and guns… These Danish boys are kicking ass and taking names. Oh and let’s not forget the outstanding choice in LOOP gear. Joe needs to get this in the shop… fast.
via MoldyChum
Huge Brown “Cowboy Wrangled” by Matt Heron
I posted the pic of this awesome fish caught by LoopArmy friend Matt Heron a few days ago. It’s already as viral as viral can be… and it should be. What an amazing fish Matt! If you have not already seen this (which is unlikely)… please make sure you are seated first. Please hop over and give Matt some congrats on his fanpage!
PUSH
Looks like the guys at FlatsPirate put a ton of work into this video. Worth checking out for sure.
“Follow the Bums of the Flatspirate Crew while they visit fishing locations in South West Florida all the while sharing the love of fishing and their experiences. View some breath taking footage filmed on location in Charlotte Harbor Florida direct from the Flats.”
Colorado Slabs
I first heard about Lee Novotny from my fishing buddy Dom in Colorado. While Dom and I would be chasing browns in some of the streams near Denver he’d tell me about the Youtube videos this guy was putting out showcasing huge bows and browns that were caught up in some of the tailwaters of the Rockies. After getting a chance to see some of these fish in his videos it was easy to understand why he has such a great reputation. Lee is a fly fisherman who has obviously put a serious amount of time in on his local waters. He’s even designed a fly called the Ale Egg that has a fierce reputation of producing huge fish in some of the Colorado rivers he fishes.
Doubts? Check out some of the videos on his Youtube Page. From huge bows, brooks, cutts and bullies… Lee has made it a habit of finding some of the biggest fish out there. Then there are the carp… I still don’t really get why so many fly fisherman still trash talk them. They are probably the smartest and most technical fish you will ever cast a fly to in fresh water. Lee recently put up a nice video of the hunt for his 92cm world record grass carp. Think your average carp is a bitch to catch? Try a grassy… it’ll make you want to rage quit the entire sport.
Lee has been up for Moldy Chum’s Slab of the Month a few times now. Recently with this monster brown! Great work Lee!
Glad that I had a chance to meet Lee and hit the water with him this past summer. He’s one of the nicest guys I’ve had the honor of fishing with. Be sure to give his site Thefishfly.com a visit or check out his fan page.
-Scott “Scotty Don’t”
A Nice Morning For a Swim
Anthony promised us some big fall browns on small water this weekend so the guys packed up and got ready for some Rambo style fishing. But sometimes the Bill Dance antics you get on the water overshadow any of the fish you might find. Anthony spotted a nice brown trout in some shallows and was nice enough to let me have a shot at it. It’s when he went in to net the fish that things got really good.
I don’t know how he made it through the rest of the day without dying of hypothermia. He just kept on fishing.
But we’ve all been there right? Just most of us have not been so unlucky as him to have had a cameraman around when it happened. It’s ok Anthony, at least you were not this guy…
Bearded Clam Fly
No it’s not a mistake. It is really a “bearded clam” fly. Found via our friends at FlatsPirate.
India Has Two of My Favorite Things!
So what’s greater than fishing for Mahseer on your trip to India? I would have to say doing it on a Tiger Reserve. Balls!
Sure, I’d give it a go. But only if you give me double the armed guards and one of those trendy face masks to put on the back of my head.
Think you’ll get bored fly fishing for giant Mahseer while hungry tigers stalk you from the banks? No worries! India has some other great things in store for you during a visit. No kids… I’m not talking about curry bomb diarrhea. I’m talking about some awesome (and very cheap!) street side dental work. I’ve thrown that in for you just in the event that you needed a little more “India” after the first video.
New teeth, dentures or extractions not a problem at all for Pushkar and his old master Pyara Singh. They treat their patients in front of the train station of Jaipur, on the sidewalk under the pure sky. The short film of filmmaker Falk Peplinski, who has been living in India for three years, is an ironical image-clip for a dentist of its own kind and therefore a homage to the incredibleness of the Indian everyday life. The film had a big success at fimfestivals in 2006 and 2007.
Hasbro Has A Fly Pattern
This Friday Rial was able to sneak away from his workload at the shop and we decided to head up to the Coeur d’ Alene and do some late afternoon fishing.
Now… we were supposed to go to the Joe but he asked me to go fishing at about 1:00pm “Rial Time”. That means you will be in the truck, loaded up and on the road by oh… about 3:30 or 4:00 if you are lucky.
I really don’t care where I fish as long as I’m getting some time to learn (aka spinning the boat in circles and trying to be anything but a complete clusterf*ck), and Rial was kind enough to put up with all of that! Lucky him.
It turned out to be an awesome day on the water. Caddis were popping off like crazy and we saw a ton of little yellow sallies (a first for me to see so many). The fish were hungry and we were landing them right at the launch before even putting in.
What still gets me sometimes is the crazy flies some of these fish will go after. I never in my life thought that trout would rise to some of the stuff the guys up here throw at them.
Just glance into a fly box and you might think you were looking into some kids toybox from the 80′s. These flys are bright, flashy, furry and sometimes just plain ridiculous. I mean ridiculous in a “if Boy George was a fish he’d hit them” kind of a way, and the names for some of the flies stick for that very reason.
Anyway it was a great day on the water and I learned a ton. Especially that I should never be afraid to go crazy and experiment with the fly patterns (at least up around here). Oh yeah… and thanks for the fly pattern Hasbro. Fish can’t resist hot pony action!
Remember YOUR first fish?
If watching this video doesn’t make you smile you deserve a punch to the face. I’m just sayin…
Video Fly Fishing The Coeur D’ Alene
Brian Griffith and Scott Tilford took a rainy day trip up to the Coeur D’ Alene earlier this year and filmed a couple hours of fishing.