Unique Movie Premieres Might 9 at 11:00 a.m. & 9:00 p.m. ET on Out of doors Channel
DENVER (Might 7, 2026) – Fly Fisherman Journal just lately introduced the community premiere of its new, authentic quick movie, The Shoals, supported by companions Patagonia, COSTA, G. Loomis, The Fly Store and Scientific Anglers, and airing on Out of doors Channel Might 9 at 11:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. EST. A Ben Annibali movie, The Shoals follows the travels of Fly Fisherman Journal Editor/Writer Ross Purnell as he journeys to distant St. Brandon Atoll within the Indian Ocean looking for the Large Trevally (GT). The atoll makes for an epic setting for Purnell’s fascinating pursuit of the his lifelong dream to catch the Indo-Pacific’s “king of the reef,” and the cinematographic result’s stunningly lovely and completely unforgettable.
Out of doors Channel additionally will air Fly Fisherman’s “The Shoals” on Might 10 at 6:00 p.m. ET, on Might 11 at 10 p.m. ET and on Might 16 at 6:00 p.m. ET.
For “The Shoals” Official Full-Size Movie Trailer on YouTube, go to FlyFishermanMagazine.
Documenting this fishing expedition was no small feat because the 30-mile lengthy, 8-mile vast angling paradise lies 270 nautical miles from the governing island nation of Mauritius, which is 1,100 nautical miles from Madagascar within the Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa. The one strategy to get there may be by boat, and it’s a notoriously tough, 30-hour voyage. By an attention-grabbing historic flip of occasions, the Raphael Fishing Firm, Ltd., privately holds over a dozen islands within the archipelago, and together with the St. Brandon Conservation Belief, retains watch over one of many world’s most distant and superb flats fishing spots for bonefish, allow and trevally. Additionally, it must be famous that sailors who had wrecked on “St. Brandon Rocks” in 1662 offered the final file of the flightless dodo chicken, which famously was overharvested and went extinct solely 80 years after discovery.
“It appears ironic that the final dodos seen alive had been a part of a dramatic survival story across the remoted and harmful St. Brandon Atoll,” stated Fly Fisherman Editor/Writer Ross Purnell. “Now, St. Brandon is itself a form of dwelling, respiration dodo chicken. It’s the final of its sort, one of many final nice unimpacted, undeveloped and unpopulated atolls in any ocean. The dodos are gone. However at the moment the pristine reef/island/shoal habitat serves as a mannequin for scientists researching what a wholesome hawksbill turtle inhabitants ought to appear to be, how wholesome corals thrive and develop, and the way a thriving shark inhabitants is a part of a wholesome marine atmosphere. To scientists, St. Brandon Atoll is a blueprint for marine ecosystem restoration.”
Whereas St. Brandon Atoll is a “reference ecosystem” the place there was little or no human impression and is infinitely intriguing to marine scientists, for fly fishers in a position to endure the journey, overcome the tides and winds and handle the a whole bunch of sq. miles of sandy lagoons and wadable backreef flats, that is the fishing vacation spot of a lifetime.
Now, due to the enterprising workforce at Fly Fisherman, The Shoals gives viewers with a firsthand have a look at one of the unbelievable ecosystems on the planet, and to see it’s to need to protect it ceaselessly. Make sure you tune in Might 9 at 11:00 a.m. ET and once more at 6:00 p.m. ET on Out of doors Channel.
An accompanying characteristic article, “The Shoals,” seems in Fly Fisherman’s June-July 2026 challenge, on sale Might 5.
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