Posts from the “Video” Category

A Quick Bit From Rivers of a Lost Coast

Posted on February 7th, 2010

I finally watched Rivers of a Lost Coast. Totally worth the wait. Since it’s been reviewed pretty heavily already I’ll just mention one of my favorite moments: Hearing Russell Chatham talk about how Bill Schaadt, who he considers the greatest angler who ever lived, never paid for anything. Using a reel that made a clunk, tying on tippet that other people threw away, bartering salmon for a tank of gas…

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VIDEO: Costa Rican Tarpon Awesomeness

Posted on September 20th, 2009

My buddy Stephen Mick has made something very very cool. Here’s the backstory from him. Last spring, as part of a documentary project I was working on, I went to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. to film “wounded warriors” using kayaking, fly-fishing and other sports as a way to help their rehab. One of the soldiers I met, Army Captain Ferris Butler, was working with Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, a group that uses fly-tying and fishing outings as a way to get injured servicemen and women outdoors. At that time, Ferris was a single-amputee, having lost one leg to an IED in Iraq. Through “limb salvage,” he was trying to save what was left of his other leg. Fast-forward one…

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Talking Blue Highway

Posted on May 27th, 2009

Alaska’s Lynn Canal is actually a natural waterway, a breathtaking  fjord  that connects Juneau to the outside world. It is also at the epicenter of another Alaskan controversy, centered on the proposed Lynn Canal Highway Project. The plan is to extract 13 million cubic yards of rock from the canal’s eastern shoreline to run a 51 mile highway to the state capital. The road–which would be the only one into Juneau– would cross two river systems, 61 avalanche chutes, and acres of untouched wilderness. Not surprisingly, there is fierce opposition. Stephen Mick, a filmmaker from Austin, Texas, set out to shoot an adventure video with the sunglass maker Costa Del Mar and wound up making a documentary about this story. Here, Mick answers some…

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Bad Hatchery Craziness

Posted on March 13th, 2009

This Ken Shultz article came out just before the NY State DEC discovered IPN. The Connetquot represents in one localized microcosm the best and the worst of a hatchery sustained fishery. On the one hand, a stream this close to such high population density could never support pure wild fish with unrestricted access to them. Operating a stream on a pay-to-reserve English beat system with a carefully managed stocking program allows for solitude rather than shoulder to shoulder and the chance to fish larger than normal brown, brook, and rainbow trout. On the other hand, it is not reality. On the one hand, the big sea runs and the cagey eight-pound holdovers with the hooked jaws exist in numbers not seen in normalcy. On…

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