Colorado High Country features Kelley Moen and guide Colleen Farrell on a spur of the moment Spring fly fishing adventure as they backpack into a Colorado high alpine lake. Set from Kelley’s perspective, and in step with John Denver’s poignant music, this film illustrates the simple beauty and total clarity that nature provides. Glacier-fed streams, […]
The International Fly Fishing Film Festival (IF4) this week announced “Travels With Charlie” from Todd Moen as the winner of the 2020 IF4, based on votes cast by viewers across the world. “Travels With Charlie” follows Moen and his 11-year-old son, Charlie, as the duo embarks on Charlie’s first-ever destination fly-fishing trip – to Kimsquit […]
“Kendjam- Heart of the Amazon” is a Catch Magazine video with heart and soul. Known as the official online journal illustrating the world’s best fly fishing photography and film, Catch MagazIne ‘s 64th edition features a film set in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest. This T-Motion film highlights incredible Amazonian species like peacock bass, […]
The production of “Small Stream Colorado” took me into the heart of John Denver’s renown Rocky Mountain high country near the Taylor River Lodge. Together with my wife and work partner, Kelley, I met up with Eleven Experience’s Colorado Fly Fishing Manager John Bocchino. John’s longtime knowledge of local streams and Colorado summer hatches made […]
Here is Part II of Catch Magazine’s Amazon series. Pirarucú is native term for arapaima, the ancient, air breathing, giant fish of Amazonian rivers and lakes. One of the largest freshwater fish in the world, the pirarucú can grow up to 10 feet long and can weigh up to 485 pounds. The pirarucú has been a very special fish for people in this region, and I was treated to an exceptional introduction to the fly […]
Ten years ago I produced “Going Green” for Catch Magazine, July 2010 Issue #12. This was before aerial cameras, before social media. Another world. Now today we are all under the COVID-19 social distancing rules as of March 2020- a good time to add this film to the online community we’re all depending on during […]
The inspiration for my T-Motion video, Bahamian “Indiana Bones”, materialized inland and at home in Central Oregon. My 10-year old son, who also happens to be my favorite fly fishing buddy on earth, suggested that angler Brian O’Keefe resembled Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Paddling the flats atop his SUP […]
The Rio Grande is renown for its massive populations of very big sea – run brown trout. In fact, some consider it to be the world’s best sea run brown trout fishery on earth. Two years ago, The Fly Shop invited me to film Scottish angler Gordon Armstrong as he fished the Argentinian stretch of […]
Steelhead are NEVER known for being easy to catch. In fact, the more difficult they are to catch, the more valuable each fish becomes. There is a certain satisfaction in catching a steelhead on a skated dry fly. It feels like a big accomplishment to catch one of these fish in the most pure and […]
Todd Moen: “Wade Andros” was filmed in 2011 when I traveled to Andros Island with my wife, Kelley, for work. But it was also a chance to introduce her to the saltwater flats of this beautiful country. This was Kelley’s first time fly fishing for bonefish and any type of saltwater species. Wade Andros was […]