A sampling of the best fly-fishing videos available for anglers, covering everything from the basics, advanced techniques, and where to fish.
Fly fishing is best experienced out on the river or stream of your choice. However, when you want to check out a new place without the travel expense, get a close up view of a technique that is unfamiliar to you, or learn the craft of fly tying in the comfort of your own home, several fly-fishing videos can bridge the gap.
Cabela's, the world's sporting authority to anything related to the outdoors has also produced an excellent fly-fishing video for the beginner. Mike Jansen hosts their Getting Started Fly-Fishing DVD. The perfect video to teach you the basics of fly-casting, it also provides a primer on the basic flies used to get you started, and has a segment on knots that is suitable and informative for even the experienced angler.
Fly Fishing Video Magazines, produced by Bennett-Watt HD Productions, offers so many different titles on the craft of fly-fishing, where to go to achieve the ultimate fly-fishing experience, and how-to fly-fish and create your own flies, you may never have to shop another source for you off-season learning and pleasure viewing. Some titles in their extensive library include:
How to Fly Fish, Beyond the Basics & Reading Moving Water:
Hosted by, and Jim and Kelly Watt from Outdoor Life Network and ESPN, and Bill Marts, you will learn tips on fly-casting, reading the water, and entomology.
The New Fly Fishing Basics DVD:
Jim and Kelly Watt will take you on a learning adventure in this newly produced DVD that covers all the basics in the searchable format of a DVD. Included on the DVD are lessons on equipment basics, step-by-step fly tying lessons, basic casting techniques, knots, tools, choosing the correct rod, and more. This is an excellent product for anyone wanting to learn this wonderful sport or even for someone that is beyond a novice, but wants to be more successful in their approach.
How To Fly Fish, Fly Tying Basics with Dick Talleur:
Author and photographer Dick Talleur, considered by many to be the authority on tying flies, will give you hands on lessons in learning the basics of tying effective flies.
Additional titles produced by Bennett-Watt HD Productions are those included in the Orvis Hooked on Fly Fishing series. Each provides detailed information on specific fly-fishing hot spots including:
- San Juan & Delores Rivers in New Mexico and Colorado
- Rogue River Steelhead, Oregon
- Striped Bass on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Moreover, not to be overlooked, Jim and Kelly Watt's series dedicated to fishing in all the right places includes titles such as:
- Jim and Kelly Watt's Fly Fishing Video Magazine Michigan's Pere Marquette Salmon
- Jim and Kelly Watt's Montana's Missouri River Trout
- Jim and Kelly Watt's Idaho's Teton River
- Jim and Kelly Watt's Montana's Blackfoot/Clark Fork
- Jim and Kelly Watt's Delaware River Trout
- Jim and Kelly Watt's Northern Pike, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Jim and Kelly Watt's Washington Monster Trout
- Jim and Kelly Watt's Belize, A Fly Fishing Fantasy
- Jim and Kelly Watt's Venezuela Tarpon & Bonefish
- Jim and Kelly Watt's Tarpon The Silver King
These titles are only a sampling of the existing fly-fishing titles on the market. No matter what level you are, from novice to experienced, and whether you wish to fish your backyard or some far off place, there is surely a fly-fishing video available that will provide you with the knowledge and information you are searching.
