F3T Fly Fishing Film Tour casts into the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, March 4

Event preview by Charles Cassady, Jr.

They’re not often as highly publicized and hyped as the broad-audience film festivals, but “mountain culture” and “adventure” film fests generally don’t have to brag; they’re avidly attended by insiders (of the outdoorsy type).

That goes for the F3T Fly Fishing Film Tour, a festival of angling-oriented short subjects, backed by wilderness outfitters and gear vendors such as Yeti and Costa.

A favorite annual event at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s longstanding Trout Club, the feature-length program of fishing shorts also includes a cash bar, tackle raffles and reps from local adventure clubs – not to mention extreme-sports-fishing imagery in the Museum’s Murch Auditorium.

Admission is $20 in advance, $25 at the door (pending availablity). The festival website is http://flyfilmtour.com/

'Connect' with trout fishing at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History

[CONNECT screens Friday February 3rd at 8:00 pm at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. There will be a 6:30 pm cocktail reception prior to the film. Filmmaker Jim Klug and other trout fishing experts will be in attendance.]

Event preview by Charles Cassady, Jr.

Back in 1982 there was an art-house epic from France called THE TROUT. Director Joseph Losey’s final feature, it starred Isabelle Huppert as a hottie from the French countryside who goes through a variety of love affairs and upward career moves, often in combination. Why is it called THE TROUT? I seem to remember a critic or plug-writer at the time, no doubt paid more than me, who rhapsodized about how she swims through life and men like a trout through water, or something like that. So maybe that’s why it’s called THE TROUT. Or…maybe it’s because at the beginning she works on her family’s TROUT FARM and by the full-circle end of the movie she’s working again at another damn TROUT FARM! Arrgh! Aaargh! (Sam Kinison impersonation; most of you are too young to remember him)