Refreshing Fly Fishing Quote of the Week

Comes from Tom Bie of The Drake and more recently The Fly Fishing Film Tour:

Would all of you please go to www.flyfishingfilmtour.com, take a look at the dates and towns, and call or e-mail your friends in any of those towns and ask them to attend the shows.

I'm not going to feed you a bunch of bullshit about how this is "all about supporting the filmmakers." It's not. It's also about supporting me: I would like very much for my two partners and I to not lose money on this. (That was an appeal to all you Texans--Look how capitalist I am!!)

Besides, if we make money, then the filmmakers make money. And if the filmmakers make money, then we all get to keep watching flyfishing films. If the filmmakers don't make money, then we can all look forward to annual sequels of Feeding Time II--the flyfishing equivalent of Ishtar.

Drake Publisher Buys Film Tour

The news is out, Tom Bie publisher of the Drake magazine and two partners have purchased the Fly Fishing Film tour. The tour's future was in question due to the departure of AEG media guys earlier this year. From Tom's blog post via the Drake site:

As of this week, two partners and I bought the Flyfishing Film Tour from owners Terry Wolvert and Jim Crystal, ensuring that the tour will go on, with only a slightly delayed front-end schedule.

The tour will be called The Drake Flyfishing Film Tour, as my partners and I did not acquire the name AEG. Other than that, the most substantial change to the tour is that the filmmakers will take a share of the profits, based on a model that the Banff Film Tour has been using for years.

09 fly fishing film tour

Hey, any film makers out there? Me neither. I have a hard enough time getting still shots. But the film tour will be in Charlotte,Thurs,Feb 5th, at the Ballantyne Village Theater. Jesse Brown's is the sponsor and will hold an event at the store located next to the theater. If your not familiar with the tour it is certainly not "how to" stuff but pure inspired entertainment. I will keep you all posted and let me know if your going.You can Google it for a ton of info. Capt.Paul

Found in today's mail

"Fish Bum I: Mongolia," from Justin Crump and the AEG crew. The popcorn pops even as we thumb type.
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Fly Fishing Film Tour - Charlotte

The Fly Fishing Film Tour hits Charlotte tomorrow at precisely the same time as the ACC Basketball Tournament. With ticket books to the tourney hitting close to two grand, the $15 admission for a night's entertainment at the film tour seems a major bargain. If you attend either event leave us your thoughts via the comment section.

Oh and for the record Go Heels!

Fly Fishing Film Tour

Could events such as the Fly Fishing Film Tour be a catalyst for the sport the likes of which hasn't been seen since "A River Runs Through It?" Judging from all the news buzz and sold out shows at the AEG sponsored event there might just be a bit less space on the river this spring.

From a recent article in the Denver Post:

His group toured just 11 cities in 2006, its first year. That number swelled to 30 a year ago and now stands near 70 for 2008. Such success is sure to spawn a procession of imitators, as happened with the Miller ski films. Where it all stops is anyone's guess, but this much is certain: Find that spot and you'll have located the new heartbeat of fly-fishing.

You would think that its only a matter of time before this sort of thing catches on. When all these young film makers become famously rich and are living on private tiaman ranches in Mongolia we will be pleased to say we at FlyFishMagazine.com were firmly on board when it all started.

The "Fish Bums" (we can only say that somewhere their is a ticked off John Gierach attorney story yet to be told) and the Fly Fishing Film Tour will be hitting our home town of Charlotte, NC on March, 13th at the McGlohon Theater. Tickets are on sale now.

Give us a shout in the comments if you are planning to attend the Charlotte event and maybe we will join you for a post show brew or two.

DVD Review: Equilibrium - The Last Frontier

Recently we received a copy of Castaway Films short film "Equilibrium - The Last Frontier." Equilibrium's producer Dr. Grant Wiswell seeks to tell the story of the Bristol Bay region of Alaska and the fight to prevent open pit gold mining operations in the home of the largest salmon run in the world.

In addition to the magnificent scenery one comes to expect from any film about Alaska, the film's maker enlists such fly fishing notables as Gary Loomis and Gary Borger to tell the story of both the region's fishery and the danger it faces if mining operations are allowed to go forward.

The highlight of the film for the fly fisher comes in the footage of massive native rainbow trout and huge numbers of giant salmon. In this remote region anglers compete for real estate only with grizzly bear.

Watching the beauty of this unspoiled place is almost enough to make you forget about the danger the fishery faces in the event mining operations are allowed to go unchecked. Dr. Wiswell snaps us back to reality ending with a sobering presentation of how things just might be if we allow the quest for precious metal to invade one of the earth's last great unspoiled areas.

Equilibrium - The Last Frontier is available from Castaway Films for $20.00. The film has been selected for inclusion in the 2008 AEG Media Fly Fishing Film Tour and is endorsed by the Federation of Fly Fishers.