Directed by Chase White & Asher Koles / 2026 / 19 Min
“We go big for them toads,” 9-year-old Oly Hickman says, holding a squirming amphibian up to the camera.
Set along British Columbia’s remote Dean River, Oly’s Dean follows Oly as he roams his family’s fishing lodge in the heart of steelhead country. While anglers from around the world arrive to swing flies for legendary fish and bears patrol the shoreline, Oly explores his world, learning the rhythms of lodge life.
When he lands a wild steelhead on a fly he tied, it feels like the natural result of his curiosity and the freedom he’s been given to follow it—a moment that his parents get to experience through his eyes.
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