Fly fishing and more

Sure we know how to tie a fly on our tippet. But do you know how to tie a streamer or a nymph which wiggles freely on a 3x (or thicker) tipp...

Last weekend my buddy Rolf and I headed for the Weisse Traun in southern Germany. It was our first trip of the year and it turned out to be...

During low light conditions like falling dusk, the regular sunglasses are generally too dark. I've never tried photochromatic sunglasse...

Generally I'll fish with some kind of nymph during 80% of the time. Fish feeds for more than 90% under water so that makes sense. Most s...

At last! The weather is finally warming up as more days have increasing sunny periods. We planned our first trip to the trout streams in sou...

I've always loved giving (experimental) flies away to friends who try them out on their favorite streams. After all that's what flie...

Large arbor reels are the buzz these days. The advantages of these reels makes sense and they look great on graphite rods. On classic graphi...

The Fly Fair (the original!) which was supposed to be held this spring (May 6 & 7) in The Netherlands has been cancelled. The first Fly ...

It must have been sometime in the late 1980’s. I watched this badly copied VHS video called ‘ Fly Fishing for Pike with Larry Dahlberg '...

I remember calling to overseas costing a fortune. Not sure how much exactly but it was high enough to keep the calls short. These days the p...

As I wrote in my posting ' The Weisse Traun in June ' I started appreciating nice bamboo fly rods several years ago. I haven't s...

Don't you just love the Humpy? I do! The Humpy is a fly that has achieved stardom in the western states. Very buoyant and the many tying...

Trout Grass is a documentary on the journey Tonkin bamboo, the material to make bamboo fly rods, makes from mainland China to Twin Bridges, ...

I just ordered my very first custom built bamboo rod! I ordered a rod from Homer Jennings. The exact specifications aren't definite, b...

It's past 8 PM and the hatch is really intense. The dusk is making it difficult to see the fly. Ever tried to tie a fly in the dark whil...

Have you ever been without water hours away from your car? Imagine the idea of hours walking back to your car in the hot sun. The fishing wa...

Subways finally landed on the low lands! I knew there was one in The Hague, but I wanted one in Rotterdam. And it's there now! Today dur...

For my tying I use a Dyna-king Professional. The Dyna-king is as robust as a vice can be without being (and looking) bulky. It holds a hook...

This weekend the bad news came: the whole bamboo crew (Glenn Brackett and his colleagues Jeff Walker and Jerry Kustich) resigned from the RL...

So after about two weeks the book arrived. Even the packaging is stylish: a nice box with a big Apple logo on front. Inside de box, the book...