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(unlike many others that actually got made and shouldn't have been) - a film about the great flyfishing pioneer, Joe Brooks.
Joe Brooks (fly fisherman/writer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Read his "Saltwater Water Fly Fishing" (1950) and "Complete Book of Fly Fishing" (1958) books for the first time thirty years after their publication and duly tied his "Brooks Blonde" bucktail streamers, a generic pattern that influenced many a flytyer and spawned countless still-current fly patterns after them.
Fortunate enough to have met one or two of the men who fished with and were much influenced by him (both had very nice things to say about Brooks) - Mel Krieger, the great fly casting instructor and ambassador for Angling, and Lefty himself.
Lefty who?
This Lefty - Interview: Lefty Kreh
Make the film, fellas - [ame=http://vimeo.com/106630560]A River of Change: The Joe Brooks Story - Trailer on Vimeo[/ame]
PS - Plus this man - Bebe Anchorena of Argentina - http://www.wild-rivers.com.ar/anchorena.html
Joe was invited by Bebe and his Argentine pals down to Patagonia to fish for the great browns and rainbows of the Boca (the mouth) of the Chimehuin River. He showed them how to fly fish for them, taking an 18.5-pound brown on a surface Popper fly. Bebe soon got the hang of this fly fishing lark and took a 24.5-pound fly-caught world record. Glory days.
Joe Brooks (fly fisherman/writer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Read his "Saltwater Water Fly Fishing" (1950) and "Complete Book of Fly Fishing" (1958) books for the first time thirty years after their publication and duly tied his "Brooks Blonde" bucktail streamers, a generic pattern that influenced many a flytyer and spawned countless still-current fly patterns after them.
Fortunate enough to have met one or two of the men who fished with and were much influenced by him (both had very nice things to say about Brooks) - Mel Krieger, the great fly casting instructor and ambassador for Angling, and Lefty himself.
Lefty who?
This Lefty - Interview: Lefty Kreh
Make the film, fellas - [ame=http://vimeo.com/106630560]A River of Change: The Joe Brooks Story - Trailer on Vimeo[/ame]
PS - Plus this man - Bebe Anchorena of Argentina - http://www.wild-rivers.com.ar/anchorena.html
Joe was invited by Bebe and his Argentine pals down to Patagonia to fish for the great browns and rainbows of the Boca (the mouth) of the Chimehuin River. He showed them how to fly fish for them, taking an 18.5-pound brown on a surface Popper fly. Bebe soon got the hang of this fly fishing lark and took a 24.5-pound fly-caught world record. Glory days.
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