The Fly Fishing DVD Reviews!
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Well, being online constantly finally paid off for something and Zach hooked me up with a free video download code on The Fly Fishing DVD website. I just couldn’t decide which video I wanted to see more and downloaded “Monster Trout in Tasmania” and “Back Country Trout”. I enjoyed a buy two for the price of one action on this download.
“Monster Trout in Tasmania” was an exciting episode…but spoiler alert…the big trout gets whacked! Kind of sad and I would like to hear from Morsie about his decision on keeping this grand fish. The fly that they are using is really sharp looking and I learned a couple tricks on the pre-trip fly tying lesson which was included on the video.
http://www.theflyfishingdvd.com/fr_98.php“Back Country Trout” included everything you think of when fishing the South Island of New Zealand. Great footage and amazing trout caught in clear water.
http://www.theflyfishingdvd.com/fr_96.phpWhat both of these videos had was excellent videography, narration, to places that I’d like to someday visit.
Thanks again Zach. I’ll definitely download more of these in the future. Anyone know how I can get them moved over to my iPhone?
G’day Cameron, Glad you enjoyed the films.
The fish wasn’t “whacked”, it died in the net, probably had a heart attack. It was obese, we picked it up once to photograph it and it died. The fight time you see there is real time so it didn’t take long to land even though it was on a 5 weight, I don’t like messing around with a fish and have been known to speak out if I see someone “playing’ with a fish.
I’ve spoken to a few people about this fish and apparently amongst “slob” trout its not uncommon for them to die. “Slob” is an old term used for an estuarine trout. Its not a sea-runner as we incorrectly surmised, but is a fish that probably lived in the estuary and probably fed on elvers which are very high in fat content. For a fish of that size it put up a pretty sluggish fight. I imagine it had the fitness of a person who lived on MacDonalds burgers.
I also believe that if you can’t kill fish then you shouldn’t go fishing because inevitably, with all the best intentions for catch and release some are going to die, and we need to be realistic about this.
Morsie
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