Fly Fishing Film Tour 2010: Everglades Video In The Works

Here we go again.  It is that time of the year for us to start readying our piece for the Fly Fishing Film Tour for next year.  We’ve decided that this year we are going to showcase one of the most unique fisheries in the world, the Everglades.  We have been filming this piece for the last couple years, and are making a hard push to complete it over the next 3 months.  The fall/winter fishing in SW Florida is some of the best of the year.  There are some big tarpon around still, but that is not our main objective.  We are looking to showcase the incredible shallow water sight fishing opportunities that the low fall tides present.

Snook and redfish thrive in the Everglades, and as the weather cools, these fish start to move around and look for shallow pockets of warmer water.  This movement gives fly fishermen and those who prefer to sight fish opportunities to have multiple fish days in mere inches of water, and us the opportunity to show the world that our backyard here in the Everglades is worth checking out.  If you really like “the hunt” of shallow water fly fishing than you’ll love our next video, as well as the Everglades winter fishery.  Keep checking our blog for updates and highlights of our adventure as it unfolds.

NOTE: There are a few partnership opportunities still available.  Would your company or organization like representation on the Fly Fishing Film Tour, and exposure in the saltwater market space?  If so, contact us to see how we can help.

2009 Drake Magazine Video Awards: The Saving Grace of FFR

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Lets have some fun…The picture is of Andy Mill and some dude eyeballing one of Will’s not so best casts.  I wonder what he is saying?  Help us figure it out.  Click on the gallery, save the original file, run it through your favorite image editor, and fill in the blank.  Then email it to shitcast@worldangling.com with the subject line “shitcast”.  The best quote winner will be announced if anyone actually plays.  Winner gets nothing, unless someone has something to give the winner, then they’ll get that.

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The forth annual Drake Magazine Video Awards concluded the other night with SLAM sharing the “Best Fishing Video” with our friend R.A.Beattie’s video: Dank.  We opened the show to tremendous fan fare as the crowd held on to every clip.  The emotion climaxed when the audience reeled back as I slammed my face into the casting platform on the south side of the Marquesas.  Yes that was me, Yes it hurt, but No, that’s not real blood.  There were some really great films this year as the quality seems to be getting better and better.  Noticeably absent was Felt Soul Media, as new-commers On The Fly took home the honors of “Best Overall” for their film Once In  Blue Moon.  I believe that Mikey Weir and Brian O’keefe were also in the winners circle for “Best Story” and “Best Cinematography”.  I might be wrong however as Tom Bie made good on his promise of free beer.  I was pretty pumped and they were going down fast while I watched from the Scott Fly Rods section on the upper level.  Obviously, I want to thank the other film makers for their efforts in getting their videos together for the show.  This event would not be possible without artists like yourselves putting in an amazing amount of time and hard work to make it happen.  Similarly, many thanks to Cloudveil, Yellow Dog, Scott, Smith, Scholler, SA, Hatch and New Belgium for sponsoring this event.  I also want to thank Oakley for hooking us up with some new shades, and Craig C. at Vanstaal for being the coolest dude ever and hooking us up with his badass reels.  But most of all, I want to thank The Drake, our loyal fans, and those who showed up, for being really, really loud when our film was playing!  All in all, it was great to get out to Denver and see everyone again. We will be looking forward to the  Fly Fishing Film Tour early next year, and some much needed time off in the southern hemisphere.

SLAM, new video from WorldANGLING: Launches 9-10-09 22:00EST

We are so f*&cking excited to show our new video SLAM to the masses.  We will be releasing it at the Drake Magazine Video Awards at Cervantes Ballroom, 2637 Welton St. Denver, CO, on September 10th at 8:00pm.  Admission to the show is free, as well as the beer.  We will be web releasing the movie the same time on our home page.  We tried to pass the bandwidth off to vimeo, so hopefully the servers will be able to handle the traffic.  we are expecting like 500,000,000,000 views that night:)  In the meantime, we are going to tease you with a password protected video file.  We don’t even know the password, so there is no chance of seeing it until the release, sorry:)  Thanks for the support.

If you missed it here is the write up:

In case you didn’t already know, saltwater fly fishing here in South Florida is a contact sport! And our latest film, SLAM, will let you feel it about as much as you’d feel a whack in the face! Filmed in our back yards here in Key West, the Everglades and the Bahamas during the 2009 season, SLAM focuses on all the major species we target: Tarpon, Bonefish, Permit, Redfish and Snook. This film portrays the most important aspects of Saltwater fly fishing. Beginning with what it looks like when you first see them coming in, to the adrenaline rush you feel when you hook up, to the heartbreak of watching them get away, and finally, the joy of releasing them to swim free. There’s no waxing poetic about the meaning of it all, we’ll let you figure that out for yourself, we just bring the goods and showcase the coolest fish in the world. We don’t have a big budget, or a helicopter, just an incredible natural resource, and a passion for what we do. For all of you out there that get it, and want more, WorldANGLING gives you SLAM!

WorldANGLING.com new site: Burned Out, Ready For Denver

I can’t believe its September already.  WTF happened to August?  Oh yeah, I know.  On August 7 I sat down in front of my computer, after sitting in front of my computer for 6 weeks editing Slam, and decided to rebuild our site from scratch.  I wanted to include things like our Drum project, some facebook link-through B/S, iTunes files for a bunch of our movies, and whatnot.  I knew what I was in for, and gave my friend “Santa” a call, bought like 55 cases of Mountain Dew, 5000 vitamin I’s (for the lcd headaches), and settled in for the long haul.  Will helped by dealing with all the text, which I still haven’t read a word of yet, and Jeff cooked dinner so I wouldn’t starve.  I can count the times on 2 hands that I left the house in the past month, and only once did I go fishing.  I’m over it!  This is what we came up with.  We hope it works out for whatever it’s worth, and apologize up front for any bugs/errors.  The only issue at the time I wrote this is the iTunes file for the FFFT2008 movie is a crap render, and will get fixed shortly.  If you find any bugs, could you let us know?

SLAM: Permit, Tarpon, Redfish, Snook, Bonefish…

In case you didn’t already know, saltwater fly fishing here in South Florida is a contact sport!  And our latest film, SLAM, will let you feel it about as much as you’d feel a whack in the face!   Filmed in our back yards here in Key West, the Everglades and the Bahamas during the 2009 season, SLAM focuses on all the major species we target: Tarpon, Bonefish, Permit, Redfish and Snook.  This film portrays the most important aspects of Saltwater fly fishing.  Beginning with what it looks like when you first see them coming in, to the adrenaline rush you feel when you hook up, to the heartbreak of watching them get away, and finally, the joy of the releasing them to swim free.  There’s no waxing poetic about the meaning of it all, we’ll let you figure that out for yourself, we just bring the goods and showcase the coolest fish in the world.  We don’t have a big budget, or even a helicopter, just an incredible natural resource and a passion for what we do.  For all of you out there that get it, and want more, WorldANGLING gives you SLAM!

Showing at the Drake Magazine video awards, 8:00PM September 10, 2009 at Cervantes Ballroom, 2637 Welton St. Denver, CO.  Admission is free, and so is the beer.  If you can’t make it to Denver, check out worldangling.com at 22:00 EST for the web release.