Fred Davis1 September 2014 9

Tall Tails – Legend of the Gurgler

I have such a Redfish crush. And videos like these make the infatuation so much the worse…

Still trying to work out the cheese factor on this one. But there’s some siiiick footage here!

9 thoughts on “Tall Tails – Legend of the Gurgler”

metiefly

02/09/2014 at 1:17 am

Fantastic! Great dog in the footage too… Best regards – metiefly
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Ray

02/09/2014 at 4:57 am

Love the footage and I too have a serious jones for redfish, one of the few fish I have not experienced, mostly because the political climate in these parts of the USA is a tad scary-ultra bubba conservative. This video would be epic without the attempt at prose and music. I like music, I’m a big Alt-J fan, but in a setting like this , I just wanna hear water and birds and the sound of fiddler crabs chomping their way through the muck!
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goldenbeetl

02/09/2014 at 9:10 am

The song was good but I agree that the video would have been better with just v the sounds of nature. Sometimes the music makes me feel like I’m watching fishing with headphones on.
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Ray

02/09/2014 at 11:44 am

Alt-J is fantastic. They have a new album coming out this week. The music is good, but…Ya know, sometimes music in fishing vids makes me feel like I’m watching porn! Just saying…
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petercoetzee

03/09/2014 at 4:23 pm

Ray you’re spot on. That narrative made me cringe. I want some running around, some swearing, chaos. Maybe I just don’t appreciate serenity like you trout guys haha.
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goldenbeetl

03/09/2014 at 5:02 pm

I watch these awesome videos as if I were actually fishing with the guys in the video, but the music makes me feel like I have headphones on….
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Ray

03/09/2014 at 6:27 pm

Dude, I could totally fucking go that way as well! Dropped a few f bombs on that holy shit rooster. One way or the other, as long as it’s real, not that pseudo pretentious poetry crap which seems to permeate merikan fly fishing porn. I love this thread!
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fdavis

03/09/2014 at 8:47 pm

It’s the growing culture around fly fishing isn’t it. Flat caps and FOs… There’s a whole counter culture developing amongst us. I’m all for poetry and Mr Walton… on the banks of a chalk stream or a similar cultured station and its part of our history. But we’ve so surpassed being only about this.

Each of us has so brought our personalisation to what is our passion, it’s become a unique expression of the diversity of the sport/art/hobby/who cares how we categorise it! It’s no longer the exclusive realm of tweed jackets and fancy accents.

In the scope of fly fishing, the pretentious, the full-of-shits, the I don’t cares and FOs all have a place.

So take John Voelker’s Credo to Flyfishing and rap that shit or put it to some punk rock riffs – the message is the same… It’s about me, the environment, the challenge and the fish.

And WE love it, no matter what hat we wear 🙂

So let’s keep it real. We all know when it’s being faked!

I love this culture!
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Ray

04/09/2014 at 4:49 am

Eloquently put and real fo sheezy. Bring on the youth and diversity, especially those kids who’s eyes light up with pure exuberance when they get to the water. No matter how cool your cap or tats may be, we all become giggly school girls when hooked up on the flats.
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