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…
Tagged: Rivers of a Lost Coast
The Rivers of a Lost Coast blog has a cool audio clip of how anglers coated silk lines with varnish and graphite. [Note: For some reason the audio clip isn't showing up on the direct link. Go to the blog front page and scroll down.]
Tagged: graphite, innovation, old school, Old Timey, Rivers of a Lost Coast, silk line
We here at Fishing Jones are enjoying the maturation of the fly fishing video genre into something beyond the instructional or extreme categories. From Red Gold, to Drift, to the rediscovery of Tarpon, we like where things are going. Add to this our expectations for the upcoming documentary-style movie Rivers of a Lost Coast, which focuses on California’s rich fly fishing history. After viewing the Vimeo trailer and reading the pre-release information on the blog, we decided to ask the filmmakers, Justin Coupe and Palmer Taylor, a few basic questions: It’s not often we get a fly fishing film that focuses on the past rather than the present. What inspired you to tell this story? It started when we first started going over to…
