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IF4 2016 – “Good as Ever”

Nathan Leavitt — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 19:31:13 +0000

For OSF’s own cut from our “Through the Woods” project, I had originally planned to just push it out online, but we made a last-minute decision to enter it into the International Fly Fishing Film Festival (or “IF4” if you don’t want to run out of breath). I’m pretty pumped on how this film turned out and excited to share a message that I feel strongly about. “Good as Ever” is a beautifully shot piece created with my good friends Nate Gunn and […]

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Through the Woods

Nathan Leavitt — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 05:57:28 +0000

It was at the Outdoor Retailer show where I ran into my old friend, Nate Gunn. Since we’d last seen each other he’d spent a lot of time creating some killer media. After catching up a bit, we determined that we had to collaborate on something. After a few months passed, Nate reached out with a specific project he had conceptualized. I dug it and thought it would be a great fit for Orvis so we began working to firm […]

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Skinny Water

Nathan Leavitt — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 04:34:10 +0000

Patagonia is top on my list of places I’d love to visit and fish. One of the main things that draws me there is the brook trout. Not only do they grow them big there, but in some incredibly awesome waters. Among various other types of water, once in awhile you’ll see photos of giant brookies being caught in tiny little braids of moving water. I’ve always been intrigued by these. Recently while trekking Utah’s high country, we came across a tiny little […]

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Scummy Browntown Brown

Nathan Leavitt — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:06:20 +0000

Finally! I know it’s been awhile since we’ve posted. We got some stuff in the works so big thanks to those that take the time to come by. Make sure you’re with us on our Instagram and Facebook to stay in the loop in between posts. Hope you enjoy this One-Hit Wonder! I’d been here before. Browntown. It’s not the type of place you want to be once the sun goes down. This particular neighborhood was especially scummy. Let me paint […]

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Why I Hate Brook Trout

Nathan Leavitt — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 19:02:16 +0000

Those spots…oooooweee! Those colors…daaaaaang! Those….shoulders? Ahhhh yeah. No matter what type of fly fishing you do, it’s hard to deny that brook trout are just plain ugly. Before I ever even had the opportunity to catch one, I was creepily obsessed like only a true hater could be. I knew the spots that held them and also knew they were out of reach to me and my bike. My mom wouldn’t drive me that far, but I knew that one day they would […]

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This is Summertime Fishing

Nathan Leavitt — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 05:00:56 +0000

Over the last year or two, my buddy, Shane, had talked to me many times about wanting to come shoot some fly fishing with me. Shane doesn’t fly fish but he spends a lot of time outside doing outside stuff and, like many, is intrigued by fly fishing. Finally, this summer we made it happen and he joined me for a day of chasing Bonnies! To me, it was a day that epitomized summer fly fishing: wet wading in my Chacos, […]

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Uinta Mountain Brook Trout

Nathan Leavitt — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 03:22:24 +0000

Utah waters hold some really nice brook trout if you know when/where to look. Typically though, when people think of Utah brook trout (myself included) they think of some of the mountains down south and not necessarily the vast and lake-spotted Uinta Mountains. Now, it’s not that the Uinta’s don’t have brook trout because they obviously do – in fact there are hundreds of lakes up there and quite a few of them hold brook trout. The issue is that not all brook […]

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Provo Bros: What kind of Meat?

Nathan Leavitt — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:24:51 +0000

These guys don’t come out with stuff very often but I always enjoy it when they do. Check out the latest adventure! A fly-fishing journey to the Bolivian Amazon. We wanted to experience the rawness of the jungle in the richest ecosystem on earth, to have a primordial connection with nature that for us, is best achieved through exploration with a fly rod. Our Tsimané guides brought us into their jungle, back in time to a lost world of primitive living, giving […]

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GEOBASS: Papua New Guinea

Nathan Leavitt — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:26:52 +0000

Motiv is back. And this time it’s for New Guinea Black Bass! Now there are a definitely lot of hard-fighting fish out there. Most anglers don’t know it, but many people say the New Guinea Black Bass is THE gnarliest fish out there. This includes the likes of Lefty Kreh. Got your attention? Ok, so what exactly is this fish? Think freshwater snapper. Lefty talks about just how insane they are in the video below. These videos really intrigue me because we may actually have the opportunity […]

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The Inside Bend

Nathan Leavitt — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 07:42:53 +0000

It was a beautiful morning. The sky was so clear and so blue. The temperatures felt good and you could just tell that it was going to be a great day. We walked to the river’s edge and it looked favorable. The cold water pained my feet as I waded to the far bank. I made a few casts to likely water only to have my dry fly drift slowly back to me unnoticed. Repeated casts offered the same results. Odd, I thought. […]

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