Fly Fishing For Bass DVD - Production Updates

We have one of the first and few Fly Fishing for Bass Dvds on the market, and we think its high time for another.

This time around, we have joined up with Joe Warren.  Our goal is to cover smallmouth fishing from early spring through the entire fishing season, and show a variety of techniques and water types in the process.  We just about have that done and one more outing this fall should wrap things up.

We already had some great early season streamer and popper action shot on the Columbia River in the can.  Then we had to reschedule our planned shoot for Joe to be in attendance at the birth of a new grandson.  We are told he is a keeper!

Joe works full time in the research of fresh water fisheries, and is an outdoor writer who shares his knowledge of Northwest fly fishing through a variety of publications.  His book on glass bead flies is a standard for fly tiers, and he has a good understanding of how to select and fish a variety of fly lines.  We are confident the hard-won  knowledge he shares in the video will  help you become a better bass angler.
To say this past weeks’ shoot went smoothly would be an exaggeration, what follows is Tucker's (the other half of Fly Fish TV) account of the adventure.

This month we headed to the John Day River in Eastern Oregon. We made it to the John Day River and the conditions were slightly less than ideal.  The water color was somewhere between coffee with creamora and peanut butter, so we drove lower down on the John Day at Cottonwood and here was our big catch......
 
 Joe did give us some good ideas on how to catch small mouth bass in a river - and on the walk back to the car Gene stepped on a snake and Tuck (that's me) almost had a heart attack!!!!!!

Then we went on to shoot rigging. Joe talks about which rods, lines and leader configurations he uses. Show us a variety of flies he uses - many of them bead flies as he is known for tying them. Good flies, but still sad little fish.

So, we went back home & got Joe's boat then went back to the upper Columbia near Boardman, OR. Like much of our trips ill timing, we arrived after the local Bass tournament!!! The fish were sick of seeing lures. However Joe & Gene did get plenty respectable small mouth bass and stayed out fishing past dark - 10pm (I wasn't too pleased). Then they got up at 5am the next day and stayed out until the wind picked up so bad it blew them home.

The entire video will include pre-spawn, spawn & summer fishing for small mouth bass. It will also have sections on special techniques, reading water & configuring gear. We'll keep you posted.