Fly fishing and more

Just my adventures on and off the stream... Established 2005

20 February 2014

Magic fingers

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I rarely fish after dusk. Why? I think the main reason that I don't fish after dusk is I don't have this 'home river' which ...
11 February 2014

Melody on bamboo

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Here's a nice video made by a bunch of young Swedish guys who built some bamboo rods together and decided it would be nice to capture th...
06 February 2014

RISE Fly Fishing Film Festival 2014

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The RISE Fly Fishing Film Festival 2014 is planned for 21 April 2014. This year is the fourth edition in The Netherlands since  2010 . This ...
05 February 2014

The South African innovation: the Palm grip

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South Africa is not the most obvious destination for most fly fishermen from Europe or the American continent. It was the book called ' ...

Just add some money… (II)

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Looks like the Patagonia region is filled with amazing fisheries run by exclusive lodges . Here's another one in patagonian Chile with m...
28 January 2014

Just add some money...

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… and book a week in paradise? I've never had the urge to book a fishing lodge, but this footage sure look tempting. The blue sky, the c...
10 January 2014

Yellowstone Angler's 2014 shootout 8 weight rods

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Yes, here we go again: Yellowstone Angler's yearly shootout . This time they are looking at 8 weight rods. The usual suspects are in t...
07 January 2014

American made Orvis CFO reels

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The Orvis CFO reel is a modern classic. Introduced just over 40 years ago, no other reel is more considered as the Orvis reel as the CFO...
24 December 2013

Dry fly fishing for brown trout in sweden

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Here's a very nice video about dry fly fishing for native brown trouts in a nice stream in Sweden. Unlike many other videos on Youtube...
21 December 2013

Sunglasses on a brim?

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We've all seen those magnifiers that attaches to the brim of the hat. Here's a new twitch to the theme: sunglasses that clips to the...
30 November 2013

Redington Practice rod

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Practicing on your casting can be done best using a regular fly rod. What's the alternative when it's not possible to cast outside w...
05 October 2013

The team behind the iPhone development

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The introduction of the first iPhone in 2007 was the best product launch I've ever seen. Here's a very interesting  article abo...
29 September 2013

Why do fly fishermen make so many false casts?...

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One day fishing for brown sea trout in Tierra del Fuego, John asked (former President of the United States) Carter why he was catching more ...
17 September 2013

Orvis Superfine Glass

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It has been a while Orvis had a fiberglass rod series. Orvis is releasing three fiberglass rods in 2014 with their new Superfine Glass ser...
02 September 2013

One can dream, right?...

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31 August 2013

Nice August

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This year has been a pretty busy year so far. I really needed a few days to relax, straighten out a few ideas and empty the head. I didn...
20 July 2013

Innovation in fly rods

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Innovation in fly rod design is the enemy of high end rod companies. Why? Because innovation means revolution rather than evolution. Inno...
16 July 2013

Circle of life

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03 June 2013

Trout Grass DVD on Youtube

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The DVD Trout Grass is now on Youtube. Not sure it's uploaded with permission from the publisher. It's not DVD quality but still ve...
02 June 2013

What is wrong with the weather (again!)?

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End of May, early June is usually one of the nicest time of the year to fish in my favorite region of central Europe: southern Germany and...
30 May 2013

Finamore

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Love the shirts from the Neapolitan shirt maker Finamore . Especially the cutaway collar is what I think has a true sartorial look which F...
11 May 2013

A new rod - the Classic G.Loomis IMX

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Anyone remember the G. Loomis IMX rod series? G. Loomis ( pre-Shimano era ) launched rods using the(ir) new IMX graphite in 1987 . The I...
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