- Raise your hand if you can’t get enough of movies featuring Fly Fishing for Steelhead!
Well, the AEG fellas that brought us the Trout Bum Diaries series are at it again for one last hoorah. The journey now takes them into the remote Northwestern wilderness in search of fly fishing’s holy grail, the wild Steelhead. Dwindling populations make films such as this one extremely important to the protection of these beautiful fish, as they help raise awareness and get more people involved in conservation efforts.
Catching a fully grown female Steelhead on the Fly has been a dream of mine since I first laid my eyes on Raising the Ghost last year. Metalhead only seems to heighten my excitement and fuel my ambition. Judging from the previous AEG projects, Metalhead promises to be a knockout film, worthy of your hard-earned dollars and cents.
Check out the trailer at Fly Fishing Film Tour blog, and be sure to buy the film when it drops on February 16th.
Tight Lines,
-Ben
-Howdy folks
Pardon my week long hiatus! While you may feel saddened, deprived, or just plain robbed of your daily Up’North fix, I can say with confidence that three groups of freshmen Civics students are better off for it. So think of it this way, by not remaining my top priority this week, you helped educated almost 80 high school students on their way to greatness. Pat yourself on the back for a job well done!
Almost a year ago I posted the trailer for Felt Soul Media’s newest project, Eastern Rises. To this date that single post remains my most popular one by a long shot. Every week I get a half dozen or so emails asking if I have any idea when the film is coming out, or if I have any new information to pass along. Unfortunately, the answer has always been a simple NO. Today my friends, is your lucky day.
Heeding the call of my readers, I dropped the Felt Soul crew an email asking for any information they could pass along regarding Eastern Rises. In less than an hour I received a response from Mr. Rummel himself. Take a gander…
Benjamin,
We have been getting similar amounts of email inquiries as well.
We had to put ER on hold for longer than anticipated in order to help adapt Red Gold for PBS’s FRONTLINE series this past summer and fall. That is all behind us now and we are actively working on the post production of ER. Our goal is to premier it at the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival in late May and ideally have the DVDs dropping around the same time.
We are about half way through the edit and it is feeling very good. We are stoked to share it with the flyfishing community as soon as humanly possible.Thank you for your interest and for getting the word out to the masses.
Best, Travis Rummel
Now if your as excited as I am for this film (and I know you are) this is excellent news. If you’ve been living under a rock and are reading this completely confused, I give you (for the second time) the stunning trailer for Felt Soul Media’s Eastern Rises.
Together, we count down the days…!
Tight Lines,
-Ben
- Nothing makes me smile more than a completely intentional and well deserved b*tch slap to the face of corporate fly fishing. Leaving out the sponsors, high priced ads, and focus on fancy gear, expensive trips, and “professional” fly fishermen, Sleeping in the Dirt is simple: by the people, for the people. Regular Joes from various walks of life, fly fishing because they love it and not because somebody paid them to. They don’t endorse the most expensive gear, or push you towards fancy waders and name brand jackets. All they endorse is a good time, and a love for fluffy flies and fins of all shapes and sizes.
Spawned from an already spectacular blog comes the online magazine everyone and their mother is talking about. Sleeping in the Dirt. Issue 1, Volume 1. Photographic genius and stories that you can relate to. Show some support for the fellas that support you!
Tight Lines,
-Ben
Comfort?
What is this meaningless word? Certainly one would not be so inclined as to think they might ACTUALLY sleep comfortably during the winter months!? Right? I know this morning I promised I wouldn’t talk about the weather, but guess what? I LIED! It’s 11:30pm on Monday night and quiet frankly I should be two hours into my evening slumber. My first day of teaching classes is tomorrow and lord (sorry atheists) knows I could use the rest. Unfortunately, mother nature has other plans.
Currently outside the temperature is 54 degrees, and the light breeze outdoors is awfully reminiscent of a lovely fall evening on the river. What was once a snow laden winter wonderland has quiet literally transformed in a matter of hours to a muddy wasteland that smells of Spring fishing, wet Labrador Retriever, and the soaking seat of a pickup truck. For those of you who don’t follow, I’ve officially entered the twilight zone (cue scary music).
So as I pry open my window and listen to the rain fall ever so gracefully on this exceptionally frustrating, outrageous, b*ll$It messy and uncomfortable evening, I thought It only fair that I share a snapshot of this madness. And remember, if your in my area and you happen to see a young devilishly handsome man outside in his boxers shaking his fist at the sky, please just go about your daily lives and let me wallow in self-pity.
Fishing season is coming…I can feel it….sorta!
-Ben











































