Fall pickerel: Tyler Hughen, documentary photographer, and Kahlil Hudson, filmmaker and cinematographer, of Finback Films spend some time in northern Wisconsin compiling footage for an upcoming fly fishing documentary.

Produced by Finback Films

The notorious, and well-respected Holeman Brothers (fly fishing captains Travis and Bryan “Bear”) like to spend a few days each January fishing the Gulf Coast for large, Louisiana redfish. Winter generally is considered prime time for hunting record-setting reds in the Biloxi Marsh and Chandeleur Islands surrounding New Orleans. Drum is World Angling’s full length movie about the guides and redfishing culture of southeastern Louisiana.

Production by World Angling Media

One man, striping basket, digital cameras, The Black Keys, empty shoreline, and some striped bass. Peter Laurelli captures New England’s 2009 summer inshore fly fishing zeitgeist.

Produced by Peter Laurelli

Colorado-based outdoor filmmakers Travis Rummel and Ben Knight, along with TV fishing personality Frank Smethurst, travel to Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula in search of “big, beautiful, mouse-crushing rainbow trout, super Kundzha (east Siberian Char), and Bigfoot in Russia’s far, far east.”

Production by Felt Soul Media

Belize is exploding with new economic life as tourists flock to its coast. Yet as developers rush to keep up with demand, they’re destroying the very thing that brings in the tourists and their money: the sea and all its many creatures. Perhaps nobody is experiencing these changes more intimately than Abbie Marin and Lincoln Westby, fly fishing guides who spend their days out on the flats chasing the elusive permit.

Award-winning filmmaker Bradley Beesley follows Abbie and Lincoln as they navigate the tension between the country’s commitments to protecting its natural and human resources. Will condos, golf carts, and foreign money force the soul of a country that lives and dies by the water into submission? Time will tell.

Produced by Costa Films

The name of the village Oromomo—the access point to the Pluma and Itirisama Rivers in Bolivia—means “Devil’s Gold.” Apparently, the elders who named the village felt that riches of the region were somehow cursed. But for fly fishers “Devil’s Gold” reflects brightly, referring to golden dorado, one of the wildest of freshwater fish.

Castaway Films spent a week on location shooting deep in the Bolivian jungle at Untamed Angling’s Tsimane Lodge to capture this seven minutes of dorado fishing.

Grant Wiswell, the film’s producer, says of the expedition: “We came for Dorado, period. Not only are these fish numerous and willing, the warm water is clear as can be, which makes for fantastic fishing. I’d estimate that we sight-casted to at least 80 percent of the fish we caught.”

Produced by Castaway Films

RA Beattie, filmmaker and former fly fishing guide from Colorado’s Roaring Fork valley, spent last summer chasing Green Drake mayflies, caddisflies, and stoneflies on some of the Rocky Mountain’s blue ribbon trout streams.

Produced by Beattie Outdoor Productions

photo credit: Punxutawneyphil

Felt Soul Media (videographer Travis Rummel, photographer Ben Knight, and fishing personality Frank Smethurst) have been making stunning outdoor movies for a few years now, primarily in fly fishing.

Eastern Rises chronicles their journey to Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula in search of “big, beautiful, mouse-crushing rainbow trout, super Kundzha (east Siberian Char), and Bigfoot in Russia’s far, far east.”

Learn more about traveling to Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula for once-in-a-lifetime fishing expeditions from The Fly Shop’s Pat Pendergast.