If you’ve been following Hooked Up Films for any length of time you know by now that we have 2 two passions. Well OK, at least 2 that we cover her on our vlog. Overland Travel……and Fly Fishing! This may seem like an odd mix to most people. The average fly fisherman doesn’t spend hours [...]
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Recently Hooked Up Films has been spending a lot of time in Central Washington……alright, we live here now. It’s a beautiful area for sure, but let’s face it, there isn’t nearly as much fly fishing opportunities as in Central Oregon (from whence we came). Sigh! However, it isn’t too far to some really great still [...]
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Awhile back we met a guy with a chair…….Not just any guy or just any chair. Ladd Lougee is an innovator and inventor and when he finally decided one day that the available camping chairs were simply too uncomfortable and really bad for your back and posture, well, he did something about it. The Strongback [...]
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East Cape, Baja Sur: There is a pink thread of light just showing along the Eastern Horizon. I can see it clearly from the window of my room. A room that just happens to be positioned only a hundred yards from the golden sand of East Cape’s lighthouse point beach. But the sand isn’t [...]
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Hooked Up Films is on location in South Texas ya’ll! We have a 12 day fly fishing frenzy going on the Laguna Madre near Rockport, Texas. Lines are flying, fish are eating, and the cameras are rolling! It’s a Texas Thang…so don’t expect to see the finest Orvis duds here, just good ol’e Redneck fun. [...]
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Global warming, rising fuel costs, expensive healthcare, Middle East turmoil, civil unrest, unemployment, and riots……these issues all seem so unsolvable. What do two poor fly fishing buddies do when they have had enough of the talking heads telling them how hopeless it all is? Where should they go to escape the daily onslaught of bad [...]
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A little over a week ago, on a whim, I decided to make the 51/2 hour drive from Bend, Oregon to Boise, Idaho to attend the Western Idaho Fly Fishing Expo. My reasons were simple. To get out of town for a few days and hang out with and learn from some other fly fishermen [...]
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We all have our own ways of judging just how tough we are as anglers. Some shoot raging rapids in a rigid drift boat just to fish seldom touched water, others will travel 14 hours on a plane to fish a remote piece of the Amazon River for rare species of bass, and still others [...]
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We travel as much as we can in an effort to find new and exciting fly fishing opportunities. In those travels we have had the distinct pleasure of making some new “stream side” friends. We couldn’t think of better way to say thank you and Happy Holidays to you, our loyal followers, than to let [...]
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