What Lies Above - Atlantic Permit on Dry Flies (Trailer) 2024

What Lies Above is a fly fishing film that tells the story of a unique change in the feeding behavior of an Atlantic permit along the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. An increase in the amount of a floating seaweed called Sargassum being driven into the coastline is creating havoc with tourism and the environment as it piles up and rots. However, a crab that dwells within it, a crab that lives in this floating mass now become a regular food source, and the permit in Xcalak, Mexico have learned to hunt it on the water’s surface.

Join Chase Looney and guide Raul Sanchez on the hunt for permit on the surface in this extraordinary town.

Featuring: Chase Looney, Raul Sanchez

Location: Xcalak, Southern Yucutan, Mexico

Directed by: Simon Kay

Camera: Simon Kay, Henry Wurtz

Edited by: Simon Kay

Music by:

Tom Deis - La Llorona
ARTLSS - Fitness Time
Yehezkel Raz - Ballad to a Mexican Desert
Amit Sagie - Peace Riddim
C.K. Martin - Underworld
Stoney Waters - Bordertown
Reuben Fillies - Whiskey Throttle
Vital Music - Vice Heights

Produced by Fly Fishing Nation Media in Cooperation with Xcalak On The Fly

Ex. Producers: Stephan Dombaj & Simon Kay

Special thanks: Xcalak On The Fly, Simms Fishing Products, Sage Fly Fish, Freefly Systems