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Cermele: Hollywood's Greatest Fishing Scenes
By Joe Cermele
Mr. Petzal over at the Gun Nut blog is a huge fan of western movies and posts about them frequently. I thought maybe it was time to look at fishing in films and figure out the best of the best. Granted, "fishing" is hardly a movie genre, but it pops up enough to warrant a list of top scenes. Here are my picks. Unfortunately, while YouTube has videos of babies dancing to "Thriller" on top of Mount Everest, they did not have clips of all these scenes.
Jaws - "Put your gloves on": Hands down the best fishing scene ever. Quint yanks on that old Fenwick and cranks the giant Penn Senator, then when they lose the fish, he tells Hooper that no marlin or stingray could have "bit through that piano wire."
A River Runs Through It - Paul Maclean's Swim: Man, just a killer scene. Old school bamboo-rod fly fishing, a perfect cast, and an epic fight with a giant trout.
Funny Farm - Snake Attack: If you didn't crack up the first time you saw this, something's not right. I can relate to Chevy Chase in this clip, because I did actually hook into a giant water snake one time that scared the hell out of me. It ate a Mister Twister.
Honorable Mentions:
- You gotta love the scene in "Son In Law" where Pauly Shore is fishing with an upside-down fly rod.
- Yeah, it's commercial fishing, but the whole Flemish Cap scene in "The Perfect Storm" rocks hard!
- Paul Hogan dynamite fishing in New York Harbor in the beginning of "Crocodile Dundee II" deserves a nod.
- Anything with Burt Reynolds is automatically cool, but it's even cooler when he shoots a trout with a bow in "Deliverance."
- And let's not forget Tom Hanks reeling up a hammerhead shark that roars like a lion in "Joe Versus The Volcano"
I know there's more great one's than these. Tell me what I missed.
JC
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The screen adaption of Hemingway's "Old Man And The Sea starring Spencer Tracy dubbed in footage of someone else actually catching a world record marlin. Spence was supposedly catching the fish with a handline which was a little hokey. Seeing the actual fight that transpired elsewhere was awesome. They did not show the boat, just the monster on the line, up close and personal.
Ah yes...good call Myles. That was a grander black marlin and the real footage was from Panama.
I'm a fan of the scene in "Quiet Man" when Father Lonnigan finally hooks into that big trout while he's giving marital advice, and he's splashing, falling down in the water and the line finally breaks.
The second one is my favorite part of A River Runs Through, THE BEST fly fishing movie ever.
The Old Man and the Sea was a fantastic book. I bet I read that thing 3 times in high school. The movie was good but movies never do the book justice. Same with A River Runs Through It. Movie good, book outstanding.
Speaking of books, Jimmy Carters book was also great and should be a movie.
Back to movies, I have to agree with weswes088. Father Lonnigan in "The Quiet Man" is very memorable.
Yea, the book for a river runs through was 10 times better and gets into the story more than the movie.
You forgot the "Bare @&&" part of that movie where he finds his brother in law and a hooker naked with a really bad case of sunburn...
Maybe not the first thing you think of...but in the movie "Office Space" (anyone who is a cubicle-dweller will know where I'm coming from) when Peter, who is in full work-boycott mode, shows up at work and guts a fish on the TPS reports. Classic.
The beginning of the last Rambo movie, they show Rambo using a bow off the bow of the boat against the sunset in the background, then giving the fish to some monks the next scene was cool. Of course the scene from Jaws with the boat going down and Roy Schneider shooting the tanks with the bolt action rifle was cool too.
JAWS altime favorite and to make it better I go o marthas vinyard every summer for two weeks.
JC, Great Post. I just watched River on DVD the other night. Its sort of become part of my preseason routine. You know, to getting myself primed and ready for the oncoming season (as if I there's ever been a need for that). That movie for me is what Warren Miller flicks are for skiers. I guess I'm more partial to River than Jaws because I have to say I for every great white trip I probably do 10 trout trips so I can relate a little more to that one more - joking about whitey of course (as if I had the gear for that, and by "gear" I am in no way referring to stuff you can buy at Cabela's) I will say though, that as a fishing flick, Jaws is right on par with river so I'd call it a tie, and have felt it's influence on the water first hand. I was fishing for musky in Ontario with my cousin one time and he was working a one of those huge surface plugs with the big rear prop, can't think of the darn name, but anyway, at about a third of his retrieve he notices a wake forming behind but not from the lure. Yup, he's getting one of those classic musky follows and as it get's a little closer we can both tell that it's an absolute monster. With about another 15 feet of retrieve left my cousin, doing his best Roy Scheider, enthusiastically exclaims "Smile you SOB!" to no avail. Even executing a text book figure eight couldn't persuade was must've been a 56 incher that proceeded to turn tail boatside.
Whoa, judging by the typo-per-line success rate of my last post I'd say it's past my bedtime.
G'night from Denver
Mans Favorite Sport with Rock Hudson and the inflatable safety waders was great
I like the scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest1 and were fishing in the bayou, a simple and classic father and son moment.
i have had snakes chase buzzbaits at night but never had one bit it.
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I'm a fan of the scene in "Quiet Man" when Father Lonnigan finally hooks into that big trout while he's giving marital advice, and he's splashing, falling down in the water and the line finally breaks.
Maybe not the first thing you think of...but in the movie "Office Space" (anyone who is a cubicle-dweller will know where I'm coming from) when Peter, who is in full work-boycott mode, shows up at work and guts a fish on the TPS reports. Classic.
The screen adaption of Hemingway's "Old Man And The Sea starring Spencer Tracy dubbed in footage of someone else actually catching a world record marlin. Spence was supposedly catching the fish with a handline which was a little hokey. Seeing the actual fight that transpired elsewhere was awesome. They did not show the boat, just the monster on the line, up close and personal.
Ah yes...good call Myles. That was a grander black marlin and the real footage was from Panama.
The Old Man and the Sea was a fantastic book. I bet I read that thing 3 times in high school. The movie was good but movies never do the book justice. Same with A River Runs Through It. Movie good, book outstanding.
Speaking of books, Jimmy Carters book was also great and should be a movie.
Back to movies, I have to agree with weswes088. Father Lonnigan in "The Quiet Man" is very memorable.
Yea, the book for a river runs through was 10 times better and gets into the story more than the movie.
You forgot the "Bare @&&" part of that movie where he finds his brother in law and a hooker naked with a really bad case of sunburn...
JAWS altime favorite and to make it better I go o marthas vinyard every summer for two weeks.
JC, Great Post. I just watched River on DVD the other night. Its sort of become part of my preseason routine. You know, to getting myself primed and ready for the oncoming season (as if I there's ever been a need for that). That movie for me is what Warren Miller flicks are for skiers. I guess I'm more partial to River than Jaws because I have to say I for every great white trip I probably do 10 trout trips so I can relate a little more to that one more - joking about whitey of course (as if I had the gear for that, and by "gear" I am in no way referring to stuff you can buy at Cabela's) I will say though, that as a fishing flick, Jaws is right on par with river so I'd call it a tie, and have felt it's influence on the water first hand. I was fishing for musky in Ontario with my cousin one time and he was working a one of those huge surface plugs with the big rear prop, can't think of the darn name, but anyway, at about a third of his retrieve he notices a wake forming behind but not from the lure. Yup, he's getting one of those classic musky follows and as it get's a little closer we can both tell that it's an absolute monster. With about another 15 feet of retrieve left my cousin, doing his best Roy Scheider, enthusiastically exclaims "Smile you SOB!" to no avail. Even executing a text book figure eight couldn't persuade was must've been a 56 incher that proceeded to turn tail boatside.
Whoa, judging by the typo-per-line success rate of my last post I'd say it's past my bedtime.
G'night from Denver
Mans Favorite Sport with Rock Hudson and the inflatable safety waders was great
I like the scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest1 and were fishing in the bayou, a simple and classic father and son moment.
i have had snakes chase buzzbaits at night but never had one bit it.
The beginning of the last Rambo movie, they show Rambo using a bow off the bow of the boat against the sunset in the background, then giving the fish to some monks the next scene was cool. Of course the scene from Jaws with the boat going down and Roy Schneider shooting the tanks with the bolt action rifle was cool too.
The second one is my favorite part of A River Runs Through, THE BEST fly fishing movie ever.
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