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Video spotlight: The Catch
When I was 13, I had a tackle box that awkwardly attached to the handle bars of my old 10-speed bike and my rod would break into two pieces, allowing it to stretch parallel to the handle grips. With the bike, the rod and the gear, I had glorious freedom. But in East Texas, a…
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Video spotlight: Arctic Seasons
Fly fishing filmmaking has come a long way in a relatively short time—the advent of DSLR cameras, drones and even the GoPro and the immitators have made the craft accessible to a lot of anglers. But not everybody does it well. In fact, I'd suggest a small handful of filmmakers really knock it out of…
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Video spotlight: Hank Patterson and the Bait Fishers, part 2
Hank Patterson is back with the sequel to his "Hank Patterson and the Bait Fishers" video that he published last fall. This version is just as funny, and, frankly, it will test the mettle of any fly fisher who values the craft because it's more "repsonisble" or more socially acceptible. Video of Hank Patterson &…
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Video spotlight: Cosmo
The Seychelles might be the farthest-flung fishing destination for North American anglers. It's Indian Ocean waters, well off the African east coast teem with fishy denizens, ranging from giant trevally to bonefish and other sight-casting prizes. Video of YETI Presents: CosmoIn the video above, YETI takes a look at Cosmoledo Atoll and takes a shot…
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Video spotlight: Fish of a Lifetime
Extreme angling is all the rage these days—films of anglers chasing strange fish in far-flung places grace the internet with regularity. But the film below chronicles perhaps the craziest angling I've ever seen. Aussie surf casters chasing cobia in the rocky surf show that, indeed, the boys Down Under are serious about their fishing. Video…
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Video Spotlight: Fly Fishing England—Buckingham
Upstream and dry. These are rules to fish by if you're chasing trout and grayling on England's storied chalk streams. As my friend Todd Moen points out in the video below, the anglers who pursue fish in these waters are deeply serious about the craft, and about the rules. Think about it. If you were…
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Video spotlight: Find Your Water—Backcountry Solitude
We're close to backcountry trout season here in the West, but we might have to wait a bit longer this summer, given the copious runoff we're seeing in the region. Nevertheless, wandering off the beaten path—parking at the end of the road and then wearing out some shoe leather—is my favorite kind of trout fishing…
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