What Lies Above - Atlantic Permit on Dry Flies (Full Film) 2024
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- What Lies Above is a fly fishing film that tells the story of a unique change in the feeding behavior of an Atlantic permit along the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. An increase in the amount of a floating seaweed called Sargassum being driven into the coastline is creating havoc with tourism and the environment as it piles up and rots. However, a crab that dwells within it, a crab that lives in this floating mass now become a regular food source, and the permit in Xcalak, Mexico have learned to hunt it on the water’s surface.
Join Chase Looney and guide Raul Sanchez on the hunt for permit on the surface in this extraordinary town.
Featuring: Chase Looney, Raul Sanchez
Location: Xcalak, Southern Yucutan, Mexico
Directed by: Simon Kay
Camera: Simon Kay, Henry Wurtz
Edited by: Simon Kay
Music by:
Tom Deis - La Llorona
ARTLSS - Fitness Time
Yehezkel Raz - Ballad to a Mexican Desert
Amit Sagie - Peace Riddim
C.K. Martin - Underworld
Stoney Waters - Bordertown
Reuben Fillies - Whiskey Throttle
Vital Music - Vice Heights
Produced by Fly Fishing Nation Media in Cooperation with Xcalak On The Fly
Ex. Producers: Stephan Dombaj & Simon Kay
Special thanks: Xcalak On The Fly, Simms Fishing Products, Sage Fly Fish, Freefly Systems
We’ve organized a special discount rate for viewers of the film. The first 5 people who book a week at the lodge by contacting simon@ffn-media.com will get 10% off
I do not believe that fishing guide is ever going to have a day off after this video. Which I know it will be a very good thing for him and his family. Amazing. 🎣
Amazing takes !!!!
Awesome Awesome Awesome 👏 🙌🙌🙌❤️❤️👁️
Hell yeah
Much love, Ru! Thanks for the support!
I can't wait :)
It's a good one! Big vibes!
Congratulations ! Hell of a good movie ! que padre ! Xcalak is the place and the guides are awesome...
I was there in 2020 but no one was using the floating crabs!! Looking forward to go back there and have some on the top! Very nice footage and video. Thanks!
Epic video guys. Thanks for sharing
Mega film!
Thanks ferg!
Epic!
Awesome video mate!
Very cool video.
a little FYI-Simon Becker was using floating crab flies 25yrs ago on the flats west of KW and Marquesas. Orvis carried them for quite some time
We’ve organized a special discount rate for viewers of the film. The first 5 people who book a week at the lodge by contacting simon@ffn-media.com will get 10% off
5 days and counting
One thing I have always wondered as a fly fisherman: how far out into the water can a guide/partner go to net a fish and still remain ethical? I've seen steelhead guides in the middle of rivers with a net and their clients are 50 yards away with the rod. How far out can this guide go to net a permit on the flats for their client. 50yrds? 100? I'm not being snooty or anything i've just never heard a solid answer to that question.
Interesting thought. It's a very situational thing, I would say. Certainly down the isle of running fish down with a boat etc. It also depends on the tackle. Some fish just refused to come in shallow. There is an IGFA legal aspect to it - written down on their website. But "ethical" is very situational IMHO. I have netted fish out of hazard zones, been underwater, dived fish out of coral holes etc.Food for thought though. Appreciate the input
On a couple of occasions I had to don a snorkel and fins and swim around coral heads releasing the fly line from the coral for 15 minutes while my friend was trying to land a Permit. Not for a split second did I ever consider the fishing ethics of what I was doing and I would do it again at a moment's notice. I would be more careful of the fire coral next time though; I could do without that experience again.