AWARD WINNING WILDERNESS EXPEDITION FILM | "BIG LAND" | Brook Trout Fishing In The Heart Of Labrador 

Thank you so much for the time and energy spent on creating these wonderful films. I admit, they make me emotional with such a strong desire for, as you called it, "wilderness immersion". I was wondering if you'd consider throwing together some of the footage you might have of the full fishing process (raw), from cast to net and everything in-between. Thanks again, and I pray you all would stay healthy and be blessed to go everywhere you desire.

Thanks so much! Unfortunately we don't have a lot of footage like that. Its not really the way we shoot. But maybe in the future we'll try and incorporate some of that!

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You NEED to upload this to fly fishing film tour it’s AWSOME it’s like a big screening for every trout fisher in Wisconsin and there are vids from everywhere in the north and South America they choose the best 10 vids and upload them all the money made from the event goes to fish conservation and stopping the gravel pits in Alaska!!!!

I bought one right after it came out? Watched it a lot. Watching this one also to help support guys. Where next?

You CAN do it!

I spent a week in Newfoundland last year on my way home from Afghanistan. It is truly a beautiful place. I loved the people - most of them were very friendly - and the countryside is breathtaking. One of my buddies got screeched in and now he prides himself on being an honorary Newfoundlander haha

The amazing respect shown to their surroundings by this team is remarkable. A beautiful and informative video!

I got that same miller feeling for sure from this. Just breath taking!

I agree!!!

Bdw is the 3 time I watched!!

Thanks for recommending, Nick. This is fabulous!

Love your videos Nick! - yours have a similar feel to this. Would love to see a longer movie type one someday!

It's interesting to read your comment...as I watched the video, the shear remarkableness (is that word?) just kind of came over me and I found a welling up of emotion I wasn't expecting.

Seriously!!!!! These people are amazing, the chills I got during that were unreal

Thanks, Andre!

ok boomer

Aw, thanks Michael! That's very kind of you.

Thank you!

Ha! Well, hopefully the power grid stays up in perpetuity, and RU-vid never dissolves, and then it’ll always be here for you ;) Thanks for the kind words and continued support

@@TightLoops Back again! Lmao.. Too true. God forbid my problems should ever outgrow where/when I can get my next Tight Loops fix.

Upon seeing this I instantly shared with those friends that tie. What a hoss.

Haters always have to be...

I think a ton of dislikes come from bots missing their true targets.

I can't wrap my head around why I can't give this more likes...As you put it, "This is a masterpiece."

People are probably just jealous

Miss leading title. I didn't come for guess facts. Read the title of my channel & realize this guy is a desk job dude.

Check out our video “Things Don’t Always Go As Planned”! It was a Northern Ontario trip! Heart achingly beautiful country up there, can’t wait to go back!

Most relaxing video I've ever seen. F for Chase and company.

Thanks so much! I feel like our films are honestly pretty heavy with narration, but I just have so much cool info I want to share with people about these places! I can’t help myself

Thanks! Really glad you liked the film. To be fair, and only partially to stroke out own ego, but more importantly to clarify for anyone reading this who might be interested in a similar trip: We were only inexperienced in paddling. The axe mishap was a simple mistake, made due to tiredness and calorie deprivation, not inexperience. And as far as fishing is concerned, we are career/professional anglers, and have over 20 years under our belts, so not quite amateurs there either. But the most important point, is that we brought a NL guide with us because it was a LEGAL REQUIREMENT. Anyone else wishing to embark on a similar trip in northern NL or QB should be aware of this. We had planned this trip solo, until realizing we needed to bring a guide, and then had dilemma of needing another person to fill a second canoe. Our friend Dylan was an obvious choice because of experience and willingness to adventure. Anyway, the benefit of having the "guides" along wasn't so much in knowledge they were able to impart, but in their youthful spirits and good work ethic. We were all equals in the bush, and it was the first time ANY of us had gone on an expedition like that.

@@TightLoops I really enjoyed your film. This is the type of film, that carries the love of our outdoor life. My comments about your fishing experience was caused by the remark: "Then, suddenly and all at once, on, a day no different than any other, and on a piece of water indistinguishable from the rest, everything changed." In your film this is actually the first time, I saw you fishing in flowing water with some eddies. This is the first time in your film, when you are fishing in an area, that looks promising to me for Brook trout - and it is certainly different from the other places you tried. Eventually you made it, which is the point. Regarding the axe: Experience means, that we know how to handle stuff in all situations, also when we are tired. I am sure, you will handle the axe properly next time, and I am looking forward to seeing your next film.

@@fuglbird Again I appreciate the kind words. I have to disagree with you about experience, because everyone makes mistakes, even the most experienced people. It certainly added to the encyclopedia of my knowledge, as every mistake does, but the technique being used was a safe and reliable one, and I continue to use it to this day. Even someone who has been driving cars for 40 years can get in an accident. I bite my tongue sometimes, but it doesn't mean I'm an inexperienced chewer. I stub my toes on sidewalk cracks occasionally, but I'm not an inexperienced walker. Accidents with blades, especially in the bush can have dire consequences, and require utmost care, but no one, and i mean NO ONE is free of potential accidents, especially when it's a task reliant on human motor functions. It's important to remain humble in your knowledge or lack thereof, but to also acknowledge that life is chaotic and unpredictable, and accidents will happen. It's all part of the risk assessment involved when taking on something like this expedition. As for the fishing part, its worth mentioning that when you see a narrative documentary film like this, some degree of liberty has been taken with passing of events, as well as what the viewer sees and does not see. So a couple of points, all of which I assume you'll find interesting if you're a brook trout enthusiast: 1) we have direct knowledge of the previous (now 17 year old) expedition to this area, including exact coordinates to where they caught fish, and we fished it all, and much of it was utterly prime brook trout water, which produced 0 fish. Pools that produced fish in the dozens of up to 7 pounds for the previous party produced absolutely nothing for us. And yes, even the career Labrador brook trout guide was dumbfounded. 2) the type of water the brook trout inhabit in this area of the far north is much more variable than you'd think, and in fact the most productive water for large fish is often lake environments. This is often upsetting to sportsmen who come to the areas top lodges, because they want to walk and wade in rivers, as apposed to sitting in boats. The point being, yes, that section where we started catching fish looked good, but it was certainly not classic Labrador brook trout water. 3) its important to mention that events did not take place exactly how they are portrayed in the film. In reality, after landing in the middle we fished for 3 days with no luck, and then moved upstream, where we found the fish. After fishing the area so extensively that we were repeat catching the same fish, we decided to travel downstream, armed with the knowledge we'd gained from the upstream locations, and knowing that there were similar structures/water in the lower river. However, after 5 days of fishing in the lower stretches, catching no fish, and getting stuck on the island, we decided to head BACK to were we had all the luck. Well guess what? Once we got there, the fish were all gone again. Now a film were we catch fish in the middle and then spent a week failing doesn't make for a great narrative, so the order got shifted for the sake of story telling. But whats really important is that we, and the rest of the world, know incredibly little about the population of brook trout in the upper Kanairiktok, and it would probably take a decade of study to fully understand their fluvial migrations, but we are pretty confident they were on the move, and we just happened to catch them for a few days on their way upstream to spawn. We spent two weeks doing nothing but fishing, and in all the lakes and streams we never saw any fish. Trolling, dry flies, nymphs, you name it. Our inability to catch fish had nothing to do with fishing experience or the water we targeted, it had to do with lack of knowledge of that particular populations migration patterns. We know a little more now, but I bet if we tried to return and replicate it we'd be thrown for a loop again. Once of the best things about exploring wild country, is that it's truly wild, and unpredictable. Armed with a combined 70 years at least of brook trout fishing experience in our group, and we still couldn't figure it out. But thats the real joy in exploration; you're always learning.