Fly fishing and more

My first visit to the Rocky Mountains region in 1992, I ran into some very memorable moments. That year I saw the majestic scenery of the pa...

It's early November and it's hard to imagine how a nice and sunny day feels like. Talking about the weather! 2007 is surely one of t...

The iPhone has been released in the UK and Germany today. No sign of it being released in The Netherlands yet... Folks are buying these iPh...

I lawn casted the new SA's Sharkskin line today. It was a WF5 and boy does it cast! The line is: * Very limp; * It holds no memory at a...

The rain jacket for the serious fly fisherman was and still is the Patagonia SST Jacket (SST stands for salmon, steelhead and trout). The or...

One of my photo's from my recent April trip made it 'picture of the week' on the RiverBum site! Check it out at RiverBum .

These guys at the Angling Exploration Group are some lucky guys. Seems like these guys don't have to take care of mortgage, 9-5 jobs an...

Wifi is everywhere these days and now it's also in my home. I bought the Airport Extreme with the latest and fastest IEEE 802.11n prot...

Just curious: Is anyone doing this?...

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...