Refreshing Fly Fishing Quote of the Week

Comes from Tom Bie of The Drake and more recently The Fly Fishing Film Tour:

Would all of you please go to www.flyfishingfilmtour.com, take a look at the dates and towns, and call or e-mail your friends in any of those towns and ask them to attend the shows.

I'm not going to feed you a bunch of bullshit about how this is "all about supporting the filmmakers." It's not. It's also about supporting me: I would like very much for my two partners and I to not lose money on this. (That was an appeal to all you Texans--Look how capitalist I am!!)

Besides, if we make money, then the filmmakers make money. And if the filmmakers make money, then we all get to keep watching flyfishing films. If the filmmakers don't make money, then we can all look forward to annual sequels of Feeding Time II--the flyfishing equivalent of Ishtar.

Drake Publisher Buys Film Tour

The news is out, Tom Bie publisher of the Drake magazine and two partners have purchased the Fly Fishing Film tour. The tour's future was in question due to the departure of AEG media guys earlier this year. From Tom's blog post via the Drake site:

As of this week, two partners and I bought the Flyfishing Film Tour from owners Terry Wolvert and Jim Crystal, ensuring that the tour will go on, with only a slightly delayed front-end schedule.

The tour will be called The Drake Flyfishing Film Tour, as my partners and I did not acquire the name AEG. Other than that, the most substantial change to the tour is that the filmmakers will take a share of the profits, based on a model that the Banff Film Tour has been using for years.