You are welcome. It is always a risk sharing your story. My brothers and I have received so much positive feedback from fly fishers to non flyfishers alike that we are thankful we took the risk.
Oregon134, glad you can relate and found your way to connect with your brothers. Keep the tradition and togetherness alive, it matters.
Onesunca, you are not the first to shed a few tears. Glad you have love for your younger brothers. Being the youngest brother, I can acknowledge that love from older brothers is powerful.
That was great! I’ve done several steelhead trips with my 2 brothers, we all have the steelhead addiction of long days swinging flys for that elusive sudden tug.
Great film, really enjoyed it. I have 1 brother and we used to fish the rivers back home for anything. Tape our rods to our bikes, use nuts and bolts for weight, fish just about everyday after school. Catch brown trout or suckers, really didn’t matter, it was fishing. Times I’ll never forget.
Very very cool! My brother is my best friend, so I can relate. We have had adventures chasing birds all over the Dakotas, to trout fish all over Idaho Washington and Montana. He isn’t gangster enough for Steelheading!
Thanks for sharing your story and a great video!
Best of wishes to you guys from another brother from Yakima
I'm an only child, but I truly say that my steelheading friends are the closest to brothers I have. There is an unmistakeable bond we all share. Wonderful story and wonderful film in a time when I feel many fishing films are missing the mark. Can't wait to go chase some winter steel!
I know this is an old post but I am new here and this clip is timeless, this really brings me back and reminds me how strong of a bond is formed out on the river. Well done
In less than 48 hours I will join my fishing brothers on the river...
A 13 hour drive awaits... it will be dark, probably raining but worth the drive as always.
Cheers to all out there preparing for an adventure.
Just got back from fishing with my brothers which this year included my dad, two nephews, niece, and my son all under the age of 10. Great trip. Priceless.
Part of this film at the beginning made me think about how I have complained with my fishing buddies many times about “maybe we live in wrong time for this particular passion” - the part where he talked about keeping at it in the mere hope. There is a quote from Russell Chatham, the artist and essayist at the end of the movie “Rivers of a Lost Coast” where he says something like the Steelhead and Salmon numbers on the rivers he has known have fallen so much since the time he started that quote “it’s not worth it to fish for a whole day and catch only one one or two fish”. For most of us these days catching just one fish in a day is full success. I suppose there IS something ennobling about really having to work and even suffer some in the environment for this passion. And there was certainly a certain crassness of the behaviors of the “fun hogs” of the golden era in the PNW, to use a term coined by another great essayist Jack Turner, not that this was the only, or even the main reason for the decline. So yeah, when I’m really forcing myself to be positive I think about the “ennobling” aspect. Other times I admit I feel like I’m just a member of a masochistic cult.
A wonderful film. And you are not alone!
For many of us, fishing was a strong anchor in life, no matter which difficulties one was going through, alone or with brothers.
Fishing is also school for life, especially hunting chromers, with all the personal attributes one has to bring or build up to succeed or to continue.
It’s a privilege for every human to have a passion in general, no matter what it is.
And for us, the fishing gives so much more than the fish.
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