John Juracek shows the foundation cast

I wanted to add this recent video of John Juracek (former co-owner of Blue Ribbon Flies fly shop in West Yellowstone) to the post I wrote earlier about learning the foundation cast. But this video needs to have its own post as John shows so well what the foundation cast ('vertical casting style') looks like. The most important part of this casting style is the elbow going up & down with the shoulder as the pivot, almost similar to the 'running motion' of the arms.

Jungle fishing in Bolivia

 

Listen to this podcast about how Marcelo Pérez, founder of Untamed Angling, came up with the idea to strike a partnership with the indigenous jungle tribes.

Holiday greetings

 

Insane spring creek fishing in Patagonia

Here's some insane spring creek fishing in a small spring fed stream deep in Patagonia. My friend Nick Reygaert, with whom I hosted five Rise Fly Fishing Film Festivals during the 2010's here in The Netherlands, is the lucky guy who gets to fish here. Bloody lucky guy!

Fan wing ant

A rather unusual name for a salmon / steelhead fly tied by my friend Al Beatty. We go quite a long ways back together, as we met at the Danish Fly Festivals in Kolding, Denmark in the early 1990's.

Darbee lineage hackle

Interesting new hackle from Harry Darbee lineage I’ve been told.

Here some feathers have different shades on both halves. Experiment was needed to see how this turns out. There seems to be some slight 'cupping' of the barbs as I see some curving in the barbs as well. Two tone hackle collar from one feather.

Here’s another cape with Darbee lineage. Also unlike genetic hackle there are lots of larger sizes here, size 10-6. The larger sizes obviously have softer barbs. The very pretty shading with a brighter center of the hackle gives quite a unique two tone look.