I enjoyed this DVD, both the fishing and the tying features. The director has a taste for lingering, nostalgic, narrative scenes which can be risky, but in this DVD I think it works. The opening sequence has a slightly dream-like quality, reinforced by slightly hypnotic music, so getting the pace right, holding my interest can be tricky – but this held my attention – the pace varies, the soundtrack is interesting and the fishing looks great. Worth mentioning is some super underwater filming stitched into sequences – so I might see a fish being hooked then watch underwater, or, more often, see a fish being released and follow it away from the angler's hand.

As with earlier releases in this series for most of the DVD I watch Morten Oeland fishing while listening to a narrator telling me about the scene. Oeland is a super caster and seems to be a fine angler so we get good footage of fishing scenes. Morten Oeland talks to camera in the introduction, yes he has an accent, but his English is fine, so I'm not sure why he doesn't speak for the remainder of the fishing feature. However, where the narration in earlier numbers in this series left me cold - partly because of the voicing, largely because of the script - this is different, the narrator seems more like a well informed commentator probably because the Danish script is translated into English very well.

So, in a nutshell, I was entertained for the duration of the fishing feature. This is almost exclusively dry fly, so I found it easy to feel the fishing, to anticipate the rise and empathise with the angler. Also easy to get a little envious of some cracking trout and sea trout.

Now the flies, during the fishing sequence flies are really set up as types, for example a beetle is a beetle, not a specific species, the emphasis is on size, shape and presentation – which suits me. When Oeland gets to the vice his patterns are similarly to the point. As before, Oeland's flies are appealingly pragmatic, these are floating flies so they use a lot of foam to make tough, buoyant fishing flies. In general he uses readily available materials and not too many of them, his techniques are mostly straightforward and when they get a touch less conventional they seem to me to be ingenious and honest: they contribute to the fly and are worked out to be practical rather than just for show. For me the stand-out flies are a Simple Beetle, fast tying and a good generic pattern, and the slightly more challenging Oeland Foam Daddy, both flies I could use regularly in the UK.

Tying is filmed simply and well, I am sitting on the other side of the bench while Oeland ties, and excellent close-up filming allows me to see everything I need. Worth mentioning that while tying views like a single sequence, look a little closer and the camera moves, gets closer, draws back – these are well filmed sequences which are then very well edited to make a seamless whole.

Entertaining fishing, useful flies – hard to argue with that!
• Sample clips and pattern details are available on www.wideopen.dk and www.wicked-flyfishing.com