Fly fishing and more

Now this is an interesting move from Sage. They released a fly rod specially for fishing big and wind resistant deer hair bass bugs. There a...

While looking through YouTube this evening, I found this hilarious piece of PC history about the evergoing battle between the Mac and Window...

There are probably a dozen movie clips on building bamboo fly rods on YouTube, but none so far is as fun to watch and sounds better than the...

Well, our trip to the Isar turned out to be a bummer... Basically we were rained out. The heavy rain period two weeks before our trip turned...

YouTube is such a wonderful medium. I found this four part video on tying a Dahlberg Diver by a tier called Ken Bohannon. Someone filmed th...

Lukas sent me a picture of a bead head nymph he used on his recent trip with great success. The bright maylar body seems to work well in dis...

I'm looking forward to our next trip in a few weeks. We'll be heading to a new river in Southern Germany with 4 guys. All our gear i...

Due to moving to my new house I haven't had much time to work on my blog. No thanks to my ISP either. I'm still waiting for my inter...

This is the mighty Missouri river in the state of Montana. It's one of those rivers where one gets the feeling of being tiny and totally...

Hardy of Alnwick, maker of fine fly reels as well as fly rods, is moving their production to Korea. In other words: Hardy is outsourcing. Th...

There's no reason to get freaked out or to get afraid being in the outdoors. But with just a few good sense tips you can enjoy a tick fr...

Maybe I'm getting old but I like to look back at the good times I had in the past. Here is a nice picture of the Crowsnest river in Albe...

Just back from my annual trip to Southern Germany (also known as Bavaria ). This trip can be summarized as way too hot for the month of Apri...

Yesterday (April 14) the unofficial Dutch version of the Best of the West casting competition was held in Kampen . The weather was unusuall...

The weather is getting warmer and warmer. I can't wait to feel the sun on my face standing in a gin clear stream. Three more weeks and w...

On April 14, 2007 the Dutch version of the Best of the West (the guy in the picture on the right is Steve Rajeff) competition will be held ...

Here is a bit of fly fishing history captured thanks to today's modern technology. Somebody uploaded a famous movie (Salar, The Leaper) ...

I will be tying at a fly shop in Kampen (Netherlands) on March 24. It started as a joke about the shop having Danville tying thread but not...

Spring is the time to get our fishing gear ready, but also means new inspirations for the grooming part. Here are some pictures I find very ...

Reuben Cross was born in Neversink, New York on March 16, 1896 and would become one of the legends of the Catskill tying scene. During his e...

I watched Kelly's streamer fishing DVD at  Dave's shop  during my  last trip  to Canada & USA. I rarely fish with a streamer dur...