If it feels like the winter blues are about to descend and that your fishing options will soon narrow down to stillwater trout and perhaps (if you’re lucky) the odd trip for tigers or yellows, fear not. As the 18th (yes, 18th) Fly Fishing Film Tour rolls into Mother Africa, at the very least you can live vicariously through the exploits of others. And boy does F3T deliver some exploits. Expect almost pornographic fly fishing footage, excellent story-telling and deep dives into the brilliant characters found in the fly fishing world. Don’t believe us? Check out the sizzle reel below.
A couple of films we have highlighted from this year’s lineup include local boy gone global Si Kay’s What Lies Above, which covers the change in feeding behaviour of Mexican permit as they begin to eat floating crab flies; Helmut Zaderer’s Rio de Gigantes looking at massive (20lb+) peacock bass on fly in the Amazon and Fred Campbell of Hooké’s work on Atlantic salmon called Only The Salmon Know. Also, keep an eye out for the Marlin Fly Project a fascinating scientific deep dive sponsored by Costa on the billfish of Baja, Mexico.
