Some highlights from The Drake's 5 Minutes of Fly Fishing Film Awards
Monday, September 13, 2010 at 12:05AM Here are two word you don't hear together very often, tarpon and float tubes.
Tapam won the award for best fishing film.
Heart of the Marsh, Waterline Media's short film about the Gulf, took home the hardware in the Best Short Film and Best Story categories.
Watch it at East Cape Canoe and Skiffs.
Early in 2010 an eerie drama was unfolding in South Florida.
The winter had brought record low temperatures, worrisome fish kills, and questions about the the future. Uncertainty and nervousness consumed many connected to the ocean. When Spring finally emerged, things were still strange. By April, we were at a tipping point. The ominous threat of the Deepwater Horizon disaster was creeping closer and closer. Everything was on the edge. It felt as if a threat from another world was bearing down. We were being invaded… Then, out of the chaos and confusion came hope-- carried by silver beings…lots of them.