Fly fishing and more

These two Humpies are the last flies tied in 2024 and ready to fly to the USA.

Another tie of the Abbey

Originally starting as a fly named the Beaverkill Bastard , this fly invented by Harry Darbee  in the late 1930's somehow was renamed Ra...

There are some video's of Rene Harrop tying flies . We don't see much of other family members tying. Here's a recording of Rene ...

Update Dec 15, 2024: Heard that Ed van Put passed away this past Saturday (Dec 14, 2024). Thank you for your friendship Ed! Rest in peace  U...

Here is an interesting letter Edward Hewitt wrote to Harry Darbee in 1950 about the fishing possibilities in Spain .

So I thought Providence was the last video Confluence Film made but there's this one called Connect . This video starts with a footage ...

Listening for the second time now, the four part podcast about the Catskills on the Hallowed Waters podcast by Matthew Supinski. Joe Cebal...

It's amazing to see how similar the making of Japanese bamboo longbows, both to material selection and handling to manipulating the bamb...

The Dette ’s tied this fly, the Conover , for the Brooklyn Fly Fishing Club member Scotty Conover back in the 1930's. The story goes tha...

Mike Valla 's books are fabulous, especially about everything about the Catskill style tying. I think I got all of his books. He also ca...

I've been a member of the Catskill Fly Tyers Guild , a group of people that embraces the heritage of the Catskill fly tying, for some ti...

Went to the river Kyll again. My buddy Nico needed to renew his German fishing license too so we packed our stuff and headed to Germany aga...

I think this is the last video produced by the now defunct Confluence, the video production company. Fishing in the Seychelles is a destin...

Book ' Art Flick, Catskill Legend '

After reading Richard Lodge's book ' The rise of the Neversinker ' about Reuben Cross , this Quill Gordon came from out of my v...

Yesterday I  returned to the Kyll after almost 15 years . The main reason for the trip was I found out my German state license expired two y...

This light ginger cape is slightly darker resulting in a bit more pronounced hackle collar on this Light Cahill. A Variant with hackle mixed...

After releasing Drift and Rise , the third video called Waypoints from the now defunct video company Confluence can now be watched on YouT...

This post was originally posted on Aug 26, 2022 Anyone remember this iconic video called Trout Bum Diaries - Kiwi Camo  that came out back i...

A little hidden gem of an interview with the late Dave Brandt about the Catskill tradition. Dave was also featured in the DVD Land of the L...

Here are two pretty rare videos with Winnie and her daughter Mary Dette about the early beginnings of the Dette's fly tying operation . ...