The guys from AEG media are back and this time they travel to the South Island of New Zealand for a four month expedition to fish for monster brown trout in the backcountry. The movie is 75 minutes in length and will have you hooked after “God Save The Queen”. If you enjoyed the action, scenery, and story of Trout Bum Diaries I: Patagonia, then this movie is for you too. Simply put, the quality of the footage is stunning. The only draw back to the movie is the length of the movie. I was spoiled by the two plus hour movie from TBD 1.
The film shows the trial and tribulations of fishing in a different country and hooking large trout. The guys encounter sheep-induced traffic jams, kayak along the coast, and survive an all-pasta diet-in search of big rainbows and browns, with all the problems, weather, and challenges any angler encounters. If you like dry fly fishing for large trout, you’re going to be jealous with what you see onscreen.
A couple of weekends ago, my fiancé and I were watching MTV. They had a “True Life” marathon on and I will admit; I am a fan of the 60 minute documentary. When we turned on the TV we had about 10 minutes left of the current show and the Tivo guide showed us the next program, “A Map For Saturday”. Thinking it might be a True Life that involves the outdoors, I was ready to watch it.
As the show starts, the narrator goes into his story and about the show. The guy, Brook Silva-Braga, leaves a nice job with a TV network to travel the world with clothes in his backpacks and several pounds of video equipment. He sets out to see the world for a year by himself and along the way he meets many new people or as one guy puts it, “friends for a day”.
“It makes me laugh when people say I could never do what you’re doing. All our friends gave us six weeks and then we’d be home and it now been 14 months.”
Karen: 21, England
“In fifty or sixth years I’m dead. I want to say, ‘I had a good life’.”
Jens: 27 Germany
“I’d like to travel 364 days and go back for Christmas.”
Bill: 27 Northern Ireland
The people he meets along the way are also solo travelers, some are just starting out, others are in the middle of their adventure, and some are heading home. The solo travelers he meets and travels with from one location to another help tell the story of why and how they are traveling as well as share some personal accounts of their own travels.
At times lonely and difficult; more often joyous, and always adventurous. In the end, Brook travels for 12 month, and travels by plane, train, automobile and by foot to 26 countries on four continents.
For years now, fly fisherman have been making “How To” & other technical type movies on casting, fly tying, fly fishing, trout streams, etc, and they are all usually pretty tame. The instructor/narrator is usually standing in field casting, sitting a tying table, or riding a long in a drift boat while a fishing guide floats them down a river. The basic point here is that there is a lot of comfort.
But what do you get when you have four young fly fishermen that have nothing better to do than fish? This is what they do. They form Angling Exploration Group (AEG) and travel to Patagonia (Argentina and Southern Chile) for five months; surviving off of beer and pasta, sleeping in dirt, and fishing their asses off. They filmed the entire adventure, added some music, and now have created FISH PORN!!
Trout Bum Diaries: Volume 1 Patagonia is pure fishing porn and has set the bar on what all outdoor movies should be like and is a must see for everyone; whether or not you are a fly fisherman, you will enjoy this movie for the story, scenery, mishaps, and BIG FISH!
This is a very short, very concise video on how to properly cross moving water on foot. It’s key to bring trekking poles if you know you’ll be crossing moving water on your trip. They can add stability and quite a bit of confidence if you are worried about being knocked down by the current. And remember that if something looks unsafe or out of your skill level, it probably is.
You may have noticed a new section on the home page for Outdoorzy, the “Featured Video”.
Outdoorzy and The Weather Channel have teamed up to bring you amazing videos with an outdoor adventure flare. We’re very excited about this new pairing. The Weather Channel has created a page for their Epic series where people like you can upload videos of your adventures.
Check it out and upload a video today. At least swing by and watch some of the craziness other people are doing. Good stuff!
So Buster sent me this viral video that has been going around. It claims that you can turn a regular mountain dew into a glow stick by adding Hydrogen Peroxide and Baking Soda. I was shocked and amazed at first… mostly cause I hadn’t heard of it. But then I got a little skeptical. So, Emile and I decided to try it out this morning….
Yep, we got way too excited that this might work. We were like two kids running around getting the ingredients together. Then it didn’t work. We followed the directions exactly too. So, we did a simple Google search and found references of all the other dummies who tried this too. It doesn’t work. It isn’t real. We figure the guy in the video must have put glow stick liquid into the peroxide bottle to fool people.
Oh well. And the world could have saved all that money on glow sticks… Maybe it’s a video planted by the Mountain Dew marketing team to drum up some excitement.
This year’s 2007 Adventure Xstream Adventure Race Series DVD is available for purchase at Gravity Play. The DVD has over 1 hour of footage and features each stop on the AXS Race Series circuit as well as a slide show of team photos. It is available for $24.95 and will ship in December.
You can also check it out tomorrow at Noon on the Altitude Sport Network. (DirecTV - Channel 644, Dish Network - Channel 410, or check your cable listings)
