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(More customer reviews)This is THE WORST DVD that I have ever purchased. It was $29.99 and not worth a penny. The only reason why I am rating it a 1 star is because the system is requiring me to choose one (otherwise it deserves a zero!). I figured that since it was copyrighted in 2006-ish that it would be relatively contempory but here's the following issues:
1) The audio and video quality is sketchy. They have a narrator but many times they are speaking over a lower volume from the camera's audio when Angie Marsh is catching fish. And the video skips at times and/or is of low quality.
2) The narration does not match the action. The narration attempts to explain and or "teach" fly fishing techniques for small streams. Here's an example: while the narrator is explaining that you shouldn't wade if you can avoid it because you may sppok the fish, the action is showing some ditzy blond stomping through the small stream! Another example is showing a picture of a goddard caddis fly while explaining that it is an elk hair caddis.
3) The video production is so amateurish that any high school AV program is annually turning out better production than this DVD. For example, they show examples of hatching mayflies and other flies that are so beat up that they are missing legs! This is like watching film strips from elementary school made in the 1960's!
4) On top of the seriously deficient video production quality is the fact that the hosts are not experts at fly fishing techniques. This video does not educate/teach the user at small stream techniques as the DVD describes. Even if this audience was more appropriate to beginners, the video shows one of the hosts, Angie Marsh, regularly mishandling trout and regularly petting them in order to show off for the camera. After the first 15 minutes it is a total abomination.
While, this DVD does show the hosts practicing catch and release, they were definitely keeping the fish out of the water either too long or dragging them across rocks or their hand which was removing the fish's protective slime. Who knows how many fish were killed in the making of this DVD!
This DVD should serve as an inspiration! Clearly anyone with a little bit of knowledge has the ability to make a DVD. And I emphasize just a little bit of knowledge! If their other DVDs are of the same quality I would not recommend buying any of them!
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Fun, Fun, Fun is the only way to describe fly fishing for brook trout in small streams. Join host Angie and James Marsh, as they demonstrate how to catch beautiful native and wild brook trout from streams so small you can jump across some of them. This program was shot on several different streams throughout the Western, Mid-Western and Eastern United States. The methods, tactics and techniques demonstrated will work fly fishing for brook trout on any small stream where brook trout can be found. Learn to approach brook trout without spooking them and how to trick them into taking the fly. All the trout caught in this presentation are either wild or native brook trout. None were stocked or came from a hatchery. Wild brook trout are very aggressive, lightning fast and much more fun to catch than stocked trout. Catching a native trout as opposed to a stream-bred wild or stocked brook trout just adds something special to the pleasures of fly-fishing. We like to think of them as trout stocked by GodBrook trout are very colorful. Their stripped fins; red, blue and white and the small red spots surrounded by a light halo are scattered about the sides of the fish. Light markings on the back of the trout look like little curled worm like lines more so than dots. In some steams you will sometimes catch a small rainbow trout while fishing for brookies. Defining a small stream can be difficult. Many small streams are called rivers but most of them are probably called creeks. In most cases they are the headwaters of much larger freestone streams. Many small streams are spring creeks but we did not include small spring creeks in this presentation because the techniques and methods for fishing them are greatly different from those used to fish small freestone streams.DVD Menu:IntroductionEastern TennesseeNorthern WyomingSouthwestern MontanaSouthern MontanaWestern MontanaNorthern VirginiaWestern MichiganFly Fishing DVD PromoThe Sport of Fly Fishing
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