Trout Bum Diaries

The Trout Bum Diaries - Angling Exploration Group - video/DVD ...

This DVD marks a change in fishing DVD's as far as I can see. Most fly fishing related DVD's and videos fall in two groups: the instructional ones and the story-telling ones. The first kind teaches you a specific skill, tells you about a destination or some kind of fishing. The second one tells somebody's story and accounts for one or several trips. The film is shot during a six month trip to Patagonia, and even though I'm sure that any half-year long trip will produce lots of fish, this seems extreme. Fish are caught in everything from small ditches over average rivers to large, clear lakes. The number and size of fish gives you an immediate longing for South America – if you didn't have it already. Most of the places are as fascinating and beautiful as your would expect. Some of the sequences are so astounding that it's hard to describe. There are places of great beauty but also some secluded, overgrown almost unattractive waters in really muddy surroundings. But all hold fish and the guys in the film manage to pry fish out of the most amazing places. I was personally pretty stunned by the fish that are hauled from small, narrow streams by running Woolly Buggers at very short line down through them. Some of the fish are unbelievably large and some jump right out of the small streams and onto the bank. The DVD is packed full of fish--huge fish, and lots of them. I kept thinking back to the label of "fish porn" and realizing that the porn label might be very apropos. The fishing that Angler's Exploration Group does is similar to the fishing that normal people do, only it's gaudy, overdone, and somehow surreal. Not that it isn't appealing, however. The AEG do fishing like I do, only just a hair more gonzo. I have no problem sleeping on a picnic table at a campground alongside Davis Lake and having to chisel ice off of my wading boots and float tube in the morning. I could easily see myself making a guest appearance on a future AEG feature. Maybe I'll be Rybolov the half-Russian, half-cutthroat who teaches the gang how to order beer in far-off places such as Kamchatka.

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