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Returning Upstream

Returning Upstream

just one hole further, upstream

2026 · 14 min · Documentary

Armed with his late father's camping gear, a filmmaker returns to his family's Sierra Nevada fishing grounds, where a quest for nostalgia reveals a hidden history of non-native stocking that redefines his childhood memories and the importance of preservation.

Directed by Jared Isham

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