Fly Fishing Film Tour 2023

The Fly Fishing Film Tour 2023 has arrived and WorldCast Anglers has two viewings for your angling pleasure! Mark your calendars for March 22nd at High Point Cider in Victor, ID and March 23rd at the Center for the Arts in Jackson, WY! Details are listed below. Just like in years past, the Fly Fishing Film Tour has selected a top-notch film lineup with stories that span the globe! These films are sure to get you fired up for the season ahead. As always, we’re going to have some awesome fly fishing raffle prizes. Doors open at 6:00 pm for a pre-event social, so if you have time, join us before the films start to catch up with your angler buddies. Beer, wine and fly fishing raffle prizes will be available. The films start promptly at 7:00 pm. All proceeds from the evening will go to the locally selected nonprofits and conservation organizations.

The 17th annual FLY FISHING FILM TOUR (F3T) presented by Costa and Simms is back in action and hitting the road with a top notch selection of short films that are sure to get you fired up for the season ahead. The 2023 show will feature locations from Cuba to Patagonia, Mexico to Australia, Alaska, Wyoming, the Deep South, Massachusetts and beyond. Experience the achievement of a permit slam, follow the journey of one boy from Mexico to the waters of Wyoming, explore the best international waters and compete for the legendary belt buckle. Join us for a journey of adventure, friendship and the best fly fishing action.

March 22nd, 2023

High Point Cider, Victor ID

Doors Open at 6:00 pm

Films Start 7:00 pm

Tickets ONLY at WorldCast Anglers Fly Shop

Jackson Hole Fly Fishing Film Tour

March 23rd, 2023

Center for the Arts, Jackson WY

Doors Open at 6:00 pm

Films Start 7:00 pm

Tickets ONLY at Center Box Office (CLICK HERE)

Fly Fishing Film Tour Trailers:

Cape York

Cape York – Official selection of the 2023 Fly Fishing Film Tour

An Aussie Fly Fisher Production, Filmed & Edited by Kane Chenoweth

Location: Cape York, Australia
Species: Various South Pacific Species

Red dirt roads, untouched flats, and remote river systems, Cape York is an iconic part of Northern Australia. Home to the endemic ‘Anak Permit’ and hard-fighting Barramundi, Cape York offers some of the best, most diverse saltwater fly fishing in the world.
Join us on the adventure as American angler, Dave McCoy, joins Aussie Fly Fisher, Joshua Hutchins in the wilds of Australia. Special thanks to Tourism Australia GFOaA, YETI, and Costa Sunglasses for their partnership on this film. Filmed & Edited by Kane Chenoweth.

The Belt Buckle

The Belt Buckle – Official selection of the 2023 Fly Fishing Film Tour

Directed by: Elsa Caruso & Cale Berry
Produced by: FOSH
Location: Australia

Species: Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout

The Belt Buckle is an epic western-inspired tale that follows four friends and their pursuit of ultimate fly fishing glory. For just over a century, an exclusive fly fishing competition has been held each and every season. Whoever catches the biggest fish that year goes home with the elusive Belt Buckle, a family heirloom that dates back to 1922. It has been passed down the Berry family line, now belonging to two brothers Cale and Riley, who have continued the tradition, bringing in their closest friends and fishing buddies to compete in this momentous event. So, sit back, buckle up and enjoy the drama, comedy, and excellent fishing this wild tale has to offer.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

Elsa Caurso and Cale Berry are two filmmakers from Melbourne, Australia. From the first moment, they brought a camera on a fishing trip, they knew they wanted to document their adventures for all to enjoy. With a passion for the great outdoors and fly fishing they are dedicated to telling unique stories and crafting high-quality films.

Sabalo

Sabalo – Official selection of the 2023 Fly Fishing Film Tour

Directed by:Helmut Zaderer
Produced by:Flyfish Adventures and Black Fly Eyes Media
Location: Jardines de la Reina, Cuba

Species: Tarpons, Permits and Bonefish

There are several reasons why the Austrian fisherman Helmut Zaderer comes back to Cuba every year. He has been fishing in salt water for many years in the best places in the world but Jardines de la Reina – a protected marine park without commercial fisheries at the Cuban Caribbean East Coast – is one of his favorite places to fish. There are few spots like this anymore – no boats, ships and tourists – untouched nature, healthy corals and lots of fish instead.

In May 2022 Helmut went there with his videographer Vaidas Uselis especially for creating this unique film about Tarpon fishing. In Jardines de la Reina there are usually big schools of these fascinating upto 100 pound powerful fish on the flats. In SABALO – that’s how the Cubans call the Tarpons – you’ll see how fascinating flyfishing in this great area can be.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:

Helmut Zaderer is a flyfisherman through and through. His passion for fishing started when he was a little kid – he’s always accompanied his father at fishing the clear icecold mountain streams in Tyrol/Austria where Helmut grew up and still lives with his family. He practiced a lot and gained his fishing skills over the years in Austria until he started flyfishing at international waters approximately 10 years ago. As a passionate, ambitious person he quickly soaked up as much information he could and gained many skills in a very short time. Nowadays he is travelling all over the world for his biggest passion – with Flyfish Adventures he creates his own diaries and shares his experiences with a larger audience and especially his flyfishing friends.

Steves Red

Steves Red – Official selection of the 2023 Fly Fishing Film Tour

Directed by: Ben Meadows
Produced by: Dorsal Outdoors
Location: Louisiana, USA

Species: Redfish

Steve is an all-around Southern fly angler. He’s caught everything on the fly: smallies, largemouths, sunfish, and even gar. But, one fish eludes him— the crown of Southern saltwater— redfish.

The plan is simple: head down to an overwater camp deep in the Louisiana bayou and notch a thick piece of copper glory. But, as the BlueLine FlyCo guys are known for… shenanigans ensue.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

Stories are the most powerful and meaningful way to communicate with one another. Over the past decade, we at Dorsal Outdoors have crossed jungles, storms, flats, and mountains, with maybe a few fish along the way. But most importantly, we have discovered stories worth sharing. That’s our obsession.

The great stories. Ones that hook you from the start. The narratives that stick with you long after the credits roll.

A harmonious lend of contrasts: relatable and inspiring. Edgy and wholesome. Ambitious and attainable. Those are the stories we’re excited about.

The Holy Well

The Holy Well – Official selection of the 2023 Fly Fishing Film Tour

Directed by: Ben Meadows
Produced by: Dorsal Outdoors
Location: Mexico

Species: Tarpon

For 15 years, a group of friends have battled budgets, bad timing, and bad luck. From weathering hurricanes, to being marooned on an uninhabited island, they’ve seen it all. Well, except for good fishing.

This year they’ve joined forces with a sage of flats fishing, Nick Denbow, who just might have the key to unlock their fishing misery. All signs point to the “Holy Well.”

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

The great stories. Ones that hook you from the start. The narratives that stick with you long after the credits roll.

A harmonious lend of contrasts: relatable and inspiring. Edgy and wholesome. Ambitious and attainable. Those are the stories we’re excited about.

Bleed Water

Bleed Water – Official selection of the 2023 Fly Fishing Film Tour

Directed by: Chris Kitchen
Produced by: KGB Productions
Location: Western Mass- Southern VTSpecies: Brown and Rainbow Trout, Pike

In a sleepy corner of New England where most rivers have been forgotten due to industrial era damage, Dan and Tom Harrison have spent over a decade changing the perception of the North East for anglers all over the country. What were once thought of as uninhabitable rivers are now being recognized as some of the best fisheries east of the Mississippi. Armed with western guiding skills and flatbeds with winches and rafts, the brothers starting dropping into any blue line they could find.

New England is a part of them, and the waters flow through their veins. Their near manic obsession with finding the next great river has taken them over the sides of guardrails and even down a waterfall or two. That unwavering commitment to throw a raft into anything that looks fishable has turned into a cornerstone in their region, unlocking epic fisheries all of New England’s guiding community.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

Chris Kitchen and KGB productions have been producing captivating stories for almost two decades and have no plans of slowing down. We are most comfortable in the wild creating imagery of sport, people and place to share with the world. When not shooting we can be found enjoying the activities that compelled us into this lifestyle originally, fishing, biking, skiing and floating.

Wading for Change

Wading for Change – Official selection of the 2023 Fly Fishing Film Tour

Directed by: Sofía Jaramillo and Jr. Rodriguez
Produced by: Faith E. Briggs
Location: Houston and Texas, USA

Species:

For conservationist and angler Jr Rodriguez to become “like the pictures he saw in magazines,” he had to leave behind what he loved the most. By juxtaposing Jr’s origins in Houston, Texas, and his current home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, we share his journey of learning to love the outdoors and what it can be like to participate in outdoor sports in Western mountain towns as a person of color.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

Sofía Jaramillo is a Colombian-American filmmaker and National Geographic photographer based in Jackson, Wyoming.
Jaramillo’s work focuses on uplifting and telling the stories of BIPOC in outdoor spaces. Her mission is to tell the stories she wished she’d seen as a kid. Jaramillo got her start in photography working for media outlets like The New York Times, The Guardian and the Associated Press. She strongly believes in the power of storytelling and now works as a Director and Executive Producer in filmmaking. She helped shoot the first adventure ski film to feature women of color and adaptive athletes called The Approach, was a Story Producer and cinematographer on OutWest film and an Executive Producer for the Soñadora film.

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Jr is a first generation bilingual bicultural filmmaker, photographer and BIPOC activist. His work focuses on the intersectional relationship between nature and people with projects that empower communities to tell their own stories.

Jr has worked as Director, cinematographer, and photographer domestically and internationally for REI, Ford Bronco, Feeding America, Patagonia, HydroFlask, and National Geographic. He recently Directed, Soñadora, a film for immigrants, women, people of color, and all of those who fight to exist in spaces that were not made for them.

4 of a Kind

4 of a Kind – Official selection of the 2023 Fly Fishing Film Tour

Produced by: Costa Films and Livit Films
Location: Oman, Arabian Sea

Species: Saltwater, Africanus Permit

Fly fishing has brought Oliver White and Jako Lucas to the farthest reaches of the globe in search of countless species, uncharted waterways and adventure. The abundance of stamps in their passports may only be surpassed by that of the stories they’ve collected along the way; tales of triumph, connections and, sometimes, misadventure.

To some, it may seem that Oliver and Jako have ‘done it all’. This film debunks that notion, chronicling their quest to do something neither has yet to accomplish: complete the permit slam. Having both caught three of the four widely known species of permit to date, “4 of a Kind” follows these two friends as they travel to Oman in pursuit of the Africanus, their fourth and final permit species.

With its arid desert climate and dramatic rock faces, Oman’s coastline abruptly meets the turquoise, turbulent waters of the Arabian Sea, home to this elusive saltwater species. A relatively unknown challenge for most fly anglers, the Africanus and its unique environment plays with a stacked deck against this seasoned duo. Watch Oliver and Jako play their hand to see whether or not they have what it takes to hit “4 of a Kind.”

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