Fly Fishing Film Culture with RA Beattie

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

RA Beattie was the man behind the camera for many of the most influential fly-fishing films of the past several decades. It’s no exaggeration to say his work changed the culture of fly fishing.

Beattie’s work has always told the story behind the story – transcending just a sport about catching fish, and allowing us to connect with the why.

From giant Arctic char to dorado in the Bolivian jungle, to steelhead on the Deschutes and milkfish in Dubai, RA has set the standard for fly-fishing films and inspired countless others to expand their work beyond “fish porn.” Watch two of his latest- The Hard Way and The Silent Spotter to see what we’re talking about, and then explore more of RA’s work through his Off the Grid Studios/RA Beattie Productions.

Join us for a conversation with RA about his work, his passions, and a life behind the camera in some of the most exotic flyfishing destinations on earth. And if he ever gets tried of traveling for filmmaking, he travels some more, to places like Suriname and Cameroon, to verify sustainable wood sources for a guitar maker. As RA says, every fly-fishing filmmaker needs a second job at times.

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0:00.0	There's some incredible footage in there of that crab, him tying those crabs and then using the crabs on top for the permit.
0:11.0	Yeah. Don't you just love like his passion for it? Like he's got permit tattoos over his body and like, he just, he just oozes permit.
0:20.0	One of the beauties of films,
0:22.0	I think,
0:22.6	is to suspend that,
0:25.0	that,
0:25.7	the pressures of daily life and just inhabit fishing.
0:30.4	Yeah.
0:31.2	And then maybe that may,
0:32.9	it can make you appreciate it more when you're doing it,
0:35.6	too.
0:36.6	Maybe people over the country can watch this movie and see the shoots and say, man, that's a
0:42.4	beautiful place.
0:43.1	And I may never go there.
0:44.7	But if the time comes where we need to fight for that water, I have a piece of it in my heart
0:49.9	now.
0:50.3	And I care about it.
0:52.7	Hey, everybody.
0:54.0	It's Hal Herring, Back Country Hunters and Anglers Podcast and Blast.
0:57.6	Thanks for being here.
0:59.4	Hey, I am proud to announce we have a new sponsor for our podcast, and that is Silence or Central.
1:06.3	If you are involved in hunting and shooting or both, you are probably looking at owning or dreaming of owning a silencer suppressor, the same thing for your firearm.
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