A Fly Fishing Video From a Place I’ve Actually Been
By Tom Chandler on Feb 6, 2008 in Video
Nowadays, you seemingly can’t publish a fishing video unless it’s shot somewhere you’d need a helicopter or a couple dozen machete-wielding porters to reach.
In truth, fish porn — in the absence of any real insight — pretty much bores the hell out of me, but I am willing to make an exception when the folks seem to be having a good time and — in this case — I’ve actually fished the water in question (and want like hell to get back).
Ian and Charity Rutter posted this as an antidote for the winter blahs, and I’m pretty sure I fished that run on the Holston River once or twice myself, though I only had Ian and Rich Margiotta for company, so the in-boat scenery kinda sucked in comparison.
I can even live with the soundtrack (did I mention I saw Dave Matthews in concert years ago? I have? Oh). Enjoy.
Smellslikefish | Feb 6, 2008 | Reply
I’m thinking that video would be really cool if they’d cut in clips of Larry Baker chucking empty salmon egg jars in the river. It’d give it that kinda raw feel. Then they’d pan back to Ian catching a fish, next shot - Larry snapping a trout’s head upward to kill it - then back to Charity. Quite a juxta… - juxta… - quite a contrast. Yeah, I was just thinking that.
Tom Chandler | Feb 7, 2008 | Reply
Any fishing video would benefit from a few quick cuts of Larry Baker — maybe inserted like they were a few grainy seconds of Yeti footage.
Like that.