RISE 2011

The filming of the 2011 edition movie for the RISE Fly Fishing Film Festival has just been rounded up. It has been one intensive journey to capture all the beauty fly fishing has to offer. Places visited includes New Zealand, UK, Poland, Norway, Slovenia and Russia. Nick is on his way to his home country New Zealand.

Check out the neat trailer of the coming main feature movie called Hatch my buddy Nick managed to edit just before heading back home. Nick told me that it's his first movie entirely shot using his new RED One video camera. Basically the camera also used for filming Hollywood block busters. Does this also means that Hatch will be released in Blu-ray? We'll have to wait and see!

The RISE Fly Fishing Film Festival venue will again be held in The Netherlands this year. The exact date(s) are yet to be set but probably somewhere in november. Keep posted for more news on Hatch as well as the venue.


Update october 2011:
We won't make it this winter. The shows will move to February 2012.

My type of stream

This video is actually a (semi) commercial of the Norwegian fly rod manufacturer called Guideline.

I have cast a couple of their rods so far. They, I've only cast some of their trout rods, cast pretty decent. Nothing to get really excited though. I think the cosmetics and used hardware is a bit too robust and bulky. For example a short and light 3 weight rod has the same grip size and hardware as a 9 ft 5 weight. I prefer the cosmetics and hardware that matches the rod's line weight and rod length. For example Sage and Winston does it a lot better on this.

Well anyway, what I want to show you is the stream the fisherman in this video is fishing. This is somewhere in Slovenia (the website mentions Sava Bohinjka). Man, that's the type of stream size-wise I like best! Check out the clearness of the water as well as the scenery!

Deja Vu...

I've said it before. The past several years the weather is simply not working for me when I plan a fishing trip.

Spring has been very sunny and dry so far. In fact, way too sunny and dry. It's now almost summer and we're now in a rainy period. But not when I try to plan a fishing trip for gawd's sake!

It doesn't look hopeless, but it's certainly not the type of weather I want prior to a fishing trip. I want at least a good week of sunny and dry weather so the rivers clear up. Now it has been raining showers on and off for the past week and it looks like it will stay this way at least a week.

I'll check the locals in a few days to see if this rainy period means high and murky streams. Jeez!...


Update 17 june 2011:
Yes, we cancelled our trip. The weather forecast for next week doesn't show improvements, rather it looks even worse... This sucks big time!

Update 19 june 2011:
Yes, the rainy season is in full swing as it seems...
I guess we should kill our time until the sun comes back with tying flies.

Update 31 aug 2011:

As it seems this summer was the wettest summer since the Dutch weather has been registered in 1906. Well, it sure looks like weather extremities are following each other very fast recently. Not a good sign...

Ten Two - amazing magazine

The internet seems to be an endless source of information. It's probably also the biggest threat to the traditional magazines. I for one dropped my subscription renewals for Fly Fisherman, American Angler and Fly Rod & Reel eons ago.

The internet has given birth to many new web based magazines. New formats like the visual experience of Catch Magazine are simply a flood of breathtaking multi media. There are others who take a more traditional magazine like approach. Take a look at Ten Two. This free (!) magazine on fly fishing and travel is simply amazing. The pictures taken by the best fly fishing photographers and the destinations are simply mouth watering.

Go to Ten Two and get the free subscription. Even better, bookmark the site and enjoy the magazine on your iPad when traveling. Killing time at the airport waiting for your trip to some marvelous fly fishing destination.