NEW FEATURE VIDEO: “THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS”
This video means something much deeper to us. We’ve separated the “King of Birds / Standing on the Shoulders of Giants” share discussion to the end of this text. It’s not fishing related so we’ll keep it separate, though it’s everything of why this video, why fly fishing, why us, why our film/media.
This video has been added to our Cinematic Features Collection as it’s possibly one of the most immersive videos we’ve created and definitely one of our favorites. We share a few wonderful moments with trout captured along the way. This video offers some of the best of our artistry and sense of place as the conditions aligned so perfectly this day. It was an experience that meant the world to us at the time and still does a number of years later.
In reviewing a few fish moments this day, I (AJ) saw something that stood out to me through this video. The importance of having confidence in wading and crossing a river. In a number of scenarios you’ll see that we always move our feet to get to our best position to cast. We also move our feet when it comes to fighting each trout to net and sometimes that means crossing deeper river crossings. Teaching yourself to become extremely comfortable in water to confidently cross a river at will and as needed opens up many doors for you in your travels and fishing rivers worldwide. It starts with knowing how to read water very well. When you’ve assessed that there are no hazards to really hurt you then you can choose to “take it on” and take that deeper crossing if necessary, staying calm and in control. If you accidentally go for a swim – what’s the big deal, you’ll get wet (the assumption is that you know how to swim in the first place). You already know there’s really nothing to hurt you. One of the first things I did when I was first learning to fly fish was to deliberately take on some tougher, pushier crossings on the South Ram River to learn what it felt like and how not to fight the current, but to go with it, angling your way down and across, allowing your feet to often just tap the bottom to propel myself forward. This day and many others we allowed ourselves to do just that on a number of crossings and it paid off to land some gorgeous trout.