Down The Hatch - Fly Fishing Film Festival benefiting "Reel Recovery" and sponsored by some of the…read morebest in the industry, DTHDallas was one of the biggest events of the year for fly anglers in the DFW area.
The event started out with a very nice reception an hour and a half before the MC & the short fly fishing films started. Free beer from one our locals, Community Beer Company, was being served. The vibe in the place was high. Even Tom Rosenbauer, our MC was walking amongst us handing out fly fishing swag during this time.
When the short films started, the first short film was on fly fishing & Reel Recovery .ORG, a great little film that spoke volumes about helping guys with cancer! It did bring several tears to my eyes, but what the heck, it was truly moving, coming from the heart!
(reelrecovery.org)
Reel Recovery is a national non-profit organization that conducts free fly-fishing retreats for men living with all forms of cancer.
After our intro film, (and there were of tears flowing), the regular fly fishing films started and were pumped up, big time! Some of the greatest fly fishing put to sound and filmed! Fresh & salt water fly fishing was on the big screen with pumped up sound. Count me in for next year, BIG time!
Our friends at Community Beer Company made sure we had our thirsts quenched, Orvis endorsed guides offered up trips and our partners Granada Movie Theater hosted the party!
Ticket included: free food, free local craft beer, free swag, raffle prizes, (grand prize - H2 fly rod)
Doors opened at 6pm
Pre party started at 6:30pm
Show started at 7:30pm
And I'm still living the short fly fishing films again and again in my mind, truly so fun!
Tom Rosenbauer, from Orvis was our MC! (Tom has been a lifelong fly fisher and is the author of more than a dozen books on fly-fishing and fly tying. He has worked with the Orvis company for more than thirty years.)
If you want to learn a little more about fly fishing you can go to iTunes and download some of Tom Rosenbauer's (our MC for the night) podcasts from Orivis. There are a number of different fly fishing topics that are very interesting!
I'm big into fly fishing, especially cold water trout. But, there so many great shots of saltwater fly fishing, that a person might just take that up as well! This was such a great event in my opinion, that I would recommend you mark it down for next year!
See you there, in 2016 Dallas! (Tight lines my fly fishing friends!)