Winners Announced for the 2025 Stimmies Fly Fishing Film Awards

The outcomes are in! The 2025 Stimmies has wrapped up its greatest and most enjoyable season but, with the highest voter participation in Stimmies historical past and overwhelming suggestions that this yr’s movies had been the finest in competitors thus far. Offered by Scientific Anglers, Fly Fusion Journal, and IF4™, the Stimmies celebrates excellence in fly-fishing filmmaking from across the globe, welcoming entries from each rising {and professional} filmmakers.

This yr’s competitors launched 5 distinct classes for the primary time: Freshwater, Saltwater, Salmon & Steelhead, Soul of the Story, and Angler’s Selection Greatest Movie Total. Every finalist was hand-selected by a panel of trade judges earlier than heading right into a month-long public vote, powered by a high-reach digital marketing campaign and considered by 1000’s of passionate anglers worldwide.

All profitable movies will probably be featured on Fly Fusion Streaming, fly fishing’s premier digital movie platform, and the Total Angler’s Selection winner earns a coveted alternative to be featured within the 2026 Worldwide Fly Fishing Movie Competition or 2025 Fly Fusion Trout Tour.

2025 Profitable Movies

With probably the most whole votes throughout all classes, In Pursuit captured the hearts and minds of the fly-fishing group worldwide.

Synopsis: Greater than the moments social media captures, this movie is in regards to the course of—the grit, devotion, and quiet persistence that binds anglers to water. On the coronary heart of this movie? One angler’s relentless pursuit of steelhead.

Synopsis: Be part of us as we fly fish for some massive northern pike utilizing streamers with @Campbelloutfitters. An abundance of enormous northern pike have taken over these waters, making it a tough place to be a trout. On this fly fishing quick movie, we assist stage the taking part in subject and make a meal out of 1 trout-eating pike caught on the fly.

Synopsis: After 18 years of marriage and elevating 5 youngsters, Angie joins her husband Gilbert on her first fly fishing journey in Belize. From seaside days to chasing bonefish and tarpon, this story is one in all persistence, love, and newfound ardour for all times on the water.

Synopsis: In Montana, Carson is a bug freak—actually. Watch as he captures bugs streamside and crafts flies on the spot to match the hatch with scientific precision and unmatched ardour.