Keith Rose-Innes may live one of the craziest fly fishing lives out there, and while doing so, he has captured some truly magnificent footage. These 2 films highlighting a game-changing Permit fly, and some absolutely giant Arctic Char, are a great escape into the destinations we wish we could travel to. Enjoy!
Alphlexo
Every so often a fly pattern evolves to significantly change the odds of enticing the most difficult fish species, which have been driving fishing guides and anglers to the brink of insanity for decades. Alphlexo is the story of how the Alphonse Fishing Company guides combined and evolved various patterns, to finally tie a fly that has revolutionized the odds of catching Indo-Pacific permit. The Alphlexo is a hybrid that combines flies like the Flexo Crab, Orvice Crab, and various others to change the odds of catching the most technical fish that swim the flats of the Seychelles. The end result is a crab that an angler can confidently cast at an Indo-Pacific permit with a true belief that they have a chance at a reaction or even striking gold.
Check out our in-depth interview with Keith about the film, here!
Lybalakh Lake, Siberia, Giant Arctic Char
A trip to the remote mountains of Siberia in the Yakutia region of Russia in search of giant arctic char. I try to tell the story of how Ilya Shebovich, my good friend and Russian fly fishing explorer, managed to research photos and intel from the nomadic reindeer herders to lead us on another amazing adventure into one of the wildest frontiers of northern Siberia. We as anglers get challenged by extreme weather fluctuations, mosquitos, a lake that is more than 160 meters deep, and a fish species that don’t give themselves up easily. It’s a story of flying to various lakes, making hundreds of thousands of casts when finally the team turn to the insights from the local reindeer herder to try and fit the pieces of the puzzle together. This confuses the matter further rather than adding clarity and it takes fourteen days of casting flies into the deep, shallows, and surface of the crystal clear Siberian lakes before things finally start to pay off. We catch a few good fish along the way but it was never easy. My biggest being 17lbs on one of the coldest fishing days I have ever experienced. The mission of catching a really big arctic char leads on through night and day when finally at 3am in the dying stages of the trip Matt Solomon manages to entice and land a 20lbs plus monster.
Check out our in-depth interview with Keith about the film, here!
