Thursday, May 18, 2017

What if All Great Movies Were Actually About Fly Fishing

What if some of the best movies ever made and your favorite movies were actually about fly fishing or at least incorporated our fine sport in some way?  Below is a reimagnining of how some of the most famous lines in movie history would have sounded if they included fly fishing.


You need a teacher, I can show you the ways of the double haul.
-Kylo Ren in The Force Awakens


I have a need, a need for a fast action 6 weight.
-Maverick in Top Gun


You’re going to need a bigger boat…and a 10 weight with A LOT of backbone.  
-Sheriff Brody in Jaws


We can rule the river as father and son.
-Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back


Here's looking at you kid...through my new polarized Costa sunglasses.
-Rick Blaine in Casablanca


I'm going to make him (salmo trutta) a fly he can't refuse.
-The Godfather in The Godfather


I’m looking for Ray Finkle…and a mid flex, 9 foot 4 weight.
-Ace Ventura in Ace Ventrua, Pet Detective


The first rule of Fight Club is: you don’t talk about my secret fishing spot.
-Tyler Durden in Fight Club


I am haunted by waters, and that 10 pound brown that I lost a week ago.
-Norman Maclean in A River Runs Through It

You tell 'em I'M coming... and my filet knife's coming with me, you hear?! My filet knife's coming with me!
-Wyatt Earp in Tombstone


Frankly my dear, I don't give darn which size Adam's parachute you use.
-Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind


Toto, I've a feeling we're not in a trout park anymore.
-Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz
There's no place like a fly shop.  There's no place like a fly shop.
-Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz


Show me the honey hole.
-Jerry Maguire in Jerry Maguire


I'll be back...with my chironomid box.
-The Terminator in The Terminator


Go ahead, make my drift.
-Harry Callahan in Sudden Impact


There's no crying in fishing.
-Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own


I could have caught‘em all, I could catch you. On the river, you’re the law, out here it’s me. Don’t push it. Don’t push it or I’ll give you a piercing you won’t believe.
-John Rambo in Rambo



I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career as a guide. Skills that make me a nightmare for fish like you. I will look for you, I will find you, and I will hook you.
-Bryan Mills in Taken


Come back with a new set of waders, or in them. 
-Queen Gorgo in 300


Good? Bad? I’m the guy with the 8 weight. 
-Ash in Army of Darkness


What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans browns invaded the Niangua? Hell no!
-John Blutarsky in Animal House


But you can't hold a whole fishing club responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fishing community? And if the whole fishing community is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our environmental institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
- Eric Stratton in Animal House


Now I have no doubt that YOU can come up with something MUCH better than what I have.  PLEASE feel free to leave a comment below or on the Facebook page.  I hope you got a few laughs out of this and try to come up with your own!

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