Fly Fishing: the Lifetime Sport is an interactive, straightforward teaching experience using approximately 4 hours of video and oral explanation, 329 pages of text, hundreds of colorful photos, and illustrative diagrams. ... more » This world-class fly fishing school clearly demonstrates the art and science of fly fishing. It was designed and written with university standards as an accredited course. You are giving yourself the opportunity to enjoy America?s most comprehensive fly fishing school. The video is like a giant field trip into the great outdoors. You will see the methods clearly demonstrated as they catch wild fish. This course is a complete reference tool for beginners, intermediates, and experts. The more times you review it the more skill and knowledge you will gain. Fly Fishing: the Lifetime Sport is a refreshing trip into the beautiful fly fishing locations around the country. This year in the privacy of your home you have the opportunity to hone the skills that will last you a lifetime. Reward yourself by mastering the know-how to become an expert fly fisherman. This DVD is designed to use on any DVD player, TV, laptop, or personal computer.« less
Actor:David W. Young Director:David W.;Cheryl Young Genres:Special Interests, Sports Sub-Genres:Freshwater, Sports Studio:Brigham Distributing Format:DVD - Color DVD Release Date: 12/01/2005 Original Release Date: 01/01/2005 Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/2005 Release Year: 2005 Run Time: 4hr 0min Screens: Color Number of Discs: 1 SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) Languages:English
"This DVD is combined text and video. It is not a DVD that you sit back and watch straight through as a video. It looks like a couple of old Utah fish biologists did it with a handheld digital camera, so the result is definately not slick and polished. However, it is competent, and has much good information, especially the text component, on a wide variety of subjects.
I have some pretty serious problems with the casting demonstration, and if you want thorough treatement you probably ought to look at the Joan Wolff DVD.
You are probably better off using this on a computer with DVD, which is where I am watching it, than on a TV DVD player. It's organized basically by chapters and it is more useful if you have something like a mouse to select what you want to look at. It really looks like it was intended to be used as a supplement for some form of high school or junior college outdoor recreations course."
Very amateurish video
T. Leung | San Ramon, CA USA | 02/15/2007
(1 out of 5 stars)
"I hate to be the bad guy but this video deserves at best 1.5 stars. It has an extremely amaterish presentation, complete with shaky camera, strong distracting background noise, poor non-concrete information, and lots of stuttering from the star. The guy really needs to take a speech class. What can i say.
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That was it. Coundn't take it anymore. Production quality, speech quality, information quality were all just poor.
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Fly Fishing: The Lifetime Sport
Chad D. Leavitt | Houston, Texas | 02/23/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The best DVD out there for the money, Would Highly recomend it to anyone seeking to learn how to fly fish, very hands on!!!"
Educational Flyfishing
Kenneth Lines | 11/29/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Beautiful visuals. Makes even a non-outdoorsman long for nature. Interesting techniques, several I had never seen before. Clear demonstrations.
All that, and possible course credit too!
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This is a poorly made video.
John | Indiana | 10/20/2006
(1 out of 5 stars)
"I have purchased this video after reading the positive reviews here. As soon as I got the video, however, I realized that I have made a mistake. I have never seen a video made in such a poor quality. To be more specific, this is not a video. It is a compilation of some video segments that are in home video quality. The narrator of the video even has trouble speaking. The information in the video is partial. The person who teaches fly casting doesn't cast well himself. I can go on and on with this. I know it is a free market. There is no quality control in the video making business. But there are many good videos, books, and online information out there for beginning fly fishermen. This video is not worth the money!"