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Fly Fishing Film Tour coming to The Bing

In the movie Bucknasty Browns, a pair of Montana fly fishers depart in June to an Oregon tailwater to find brown trout as eager to sip mayflies as they are to chomp on mice. (Travis Boughton)
In the movie Bucknasty Browns, a pair of Montana fly fishers depart in June to an Oregon tailwater to find brown trout as eager to sip mayflies as they are to chomp on mice. (Travis Boughton)

FISHING -- The annual Fly Fishing Film Tour, founded in 2007, is returning to Spokane TONIGHT, Feb. 3, with motivating footage featuring fish, fishermen and waters from Montana to Mongolia.

The two-hour show has been shored up with edited versions of 11 films primed for a two-hour show that will start at 7 p.m. at the Bing Crosby Theater in Spokane.

  • Tickets: $15 at flyfilmtour.com, or $13 in advance at Silver Bow Fly Shop and Swede’s Fly Shop in Spokane and Castaway Fly Fishing and Northwest Outfitters in Coeur d’Alene.

Movies on the tour coming to Spokane include:

  • Cold Waters – A documentary that assess climate change as a threat to the future of angling.
  • Yow: Icelandic for Yes!  -- Atlantic salmon fishing in Iceland.
  • 90 Miles -- Sampling the culture and saltwater fishing in Cuba, the politically isolated island just 90 miles away from U.S. soil.
  • Mongolia -- Yurts, horses, remote rivers and tangling with taimen.
  • Salt 365 -- Dorado and permit in the saltwaters off California.
  • Breaking Through – Fly fishing helps heal a veteran’s emotional scars.
  • Those Moments – Follow fly fishing guides on their days off between seasons for bonefish in the Bahamas, Trout in Alaska and steelhead in British Columbia.
  • Out of Touch – Explore the Louisiana coast for redfish.
  • Bucknasty Browns – Travel from Montana to Oregon to find brown trout that like to eat mayflies as well as mice.
  • Carpland – A documentary on carp in the United States, the threats they pose and why one of the strongest and most desired international gamefish is overlooked by anglers in the USA.
  • Lost Boys of Yantarni  – Alaska guides in the rugged outreaches of the Alaska Peninsula fish for dime-bright coho that charge into mile-long coastal rivers.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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