Fly Fishing Film Tour makes splash at the Bing
Inland Northwest fly casters will get a respite next week from local winter doldrums as films about fishing from around the world, including the sunny tropics, will screen in Spokane at the Bing Crosby Theater.
The 10th annual Fly Fishing Film Tour will feature edited versions of nine films in a two-hour show starting at 7 p.m.
The tour has a reputation for whipping anglers into a trip-planning lather with scintillating action shots of reel-busting fish. The 2016 version is no exception.
From Bolivia to the Seychelles, British Columbia and Patagonia, Saskatchewan and Zambia and Virginia to Montana, some of the hottest cinematographers on (and under) the water put together unique storylines and some memorable characters.
Films cover the scene from freshwater to saltwater, issue-driven to hilarious. And all of them include a fish of a lifetime.
“The quality of the best films we received this year is simply a cut above anything we’ve ever seen before,” said Doug Powell of Mayfly Media. “We had to say no to several films that we really liked.”
Anglers cast flies in the hunt for the world’s largest brook trout, for billfish, for gargantuan pike, for acrobatic golden Dorado and British Columbia steelhead. The locations themselves are remarkable, but the fishing makes them better.
The Scandinavian Way, filmed on a Montana spring creek, is a spoof battle between nations over traditional fishing methods.
CHROME takes a more serious look and fisheries conservation. The short film, by Orvis’ Tom Rosenbauer and steelhead guide Kate Taylor, visits a remote British Columbia steelhead river as it addresses the looming threats that climate change and ocean acidification pose to steelhead and salmon.
Other films on the tour include:
Finding Fontinalis: A crew of intrepid anglers, including Yvon Chouinard, head to Patagonia in search of the world’s largest brook trout.
Jungle Angler: Legend of El Dorado – Anglers bond with locals as they pursue golden dorado in Bolivia.
Tidewater: Three anglers launch a fly fishing adventure to catch marlin in their backyard waters of Virginia.
Water is Life: A filmmaker devotes two years to circling the globe to capture fishing action that showcases how water connects three incredibly diverse fisheries. Get the drift on presenting a dry fly to Argentina’s massive Jurassic Lake rainbows, and hooking the bull-headed giant trevally of the Seychelles Islands and the carnivorous tiger fish of the Zambezi.
Chanos Chanos (Milkfish): Saltwater anglers pioneer techniques to hook acrobatic, turbo-charged, algae-eating milkfish.
Turning Points North: Two anglers describe how they climbed to the top of the ladder of fishing prowess while hooking up extraordinary bad-ass pike fishing footage.
Geobass: Best of the Worst – New footage of bad bass on the fly.