Fly Fishing Film Tour Key West: “DRUM” Sneak Peak

Posted under fly fishing news by Dave Teper

It is officially a go.  We will be hosting the Fly Fishing Film Tour at the Tropic Cinema (416 Eaton St. Key West) on Tuesday, March 17, 2009.  It should be a perfect way to kick off your St. Patricks Day.  The doors open at 6:30 PM and the show starts at 7:00.  Tickets are available at the door only, for $15.00, on a first come, first serve basis.  I believe there are 200 seats.  Afterwards, the Saltwater Angler will be hosting an after party.  There will be like 15 headline dj’s from around the planet, all the big names, free alcohol, strippers, P-Diddy’s yacht, everything you could ever want on spring break.  Actually, I am not sure what is going to happen at this “after party”, but there will be a bunch of us hanging out shootin the shit.

We are very excited to be showing a piece of our newest film, Drum, to a home audience for the first time.  The full version is still very in the works, but the preview on the tour has been getting some decent reviews.

Let us introduce Drum:

We’ve spent 12 weeks over the last 2 winters chasing big redfish on fly in Louisiana, and we’ve been lucky to have caught a pile of them.  In doing so, we realized that these big hungry redfish would chase down ridiculously huge bright flies and gobble them up right next to the boat.  This gave us an idea… strategically position 4 HD cams around the boat, and tease these fish into the “zone” and give them the fly on camera. What we ended up with is some of the sickest most visual eats of big fish in clear water (other than tarpon) that we have ever captured.  1.2 terabytes of it!

We really want (need) to produce something that we can attempt to bring in some income with.  In order to do so, we need to make sure that the final product is truly worthy of peoples’ money.

As it stands, Drum is in my opinion our best work to date.  We tried to include something for everyone.  Fish Porn, some short storytelling, some actors (the fish), some friends, and a plot with some twists and turns, will accompany a handful of the rawest fly fishing scenes we have ever seen.  We even took a guy who has been fishing that area his whole life with conventional gear, and gave him some beers and a fly rod.  Needless to say he told us it was the best day fishing he ever had.

We are excited to put an end to the editing (4-6 months) and release Drum to the masses.  In the meantime, check out the preview on the Fly Fishing Film Tour (which will be posted on the web sometime in late April or May), or watch this sneak peak that we made to promote the tour stop here in Key West:

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