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Back in April I revived the old pages from the FlyMeister 2001 competition that was held by GFF. I just forgot to tell about it!

Another great Danish Fly Festival is over, and it was as always great being part of this excellent show.

Another Danish Fly Festival is over, and as always it was a great experience. Lots of people to meet, lots of things to see.

In a few days I'm leaving for the Danish Fly Festival, and there I will be tying in the tyers row, an activity that I love

The biennial gathering of fly anglers, casters, tyers, vendors, artists, artisans and other good people will take place again in Denmark in early March 2019

Meeting up with a bunch of people and tying flies together doesn't just provide good company, but also education - and an easy shortcut to new fly names

This is a short story about a trip to Denmark combining the Danish Fly Festival and fishing for seatrout on the island of Fyn.

The Danish Festival is over and I'm slowly getting used to talking to people who don't talk about fly tying and fly fishing. It's not easy!

Tomorrow I will leave for a couple of days of fly tying, being with good friends and maybe spending a little money on fly tying

If you reside in Denmark, northern Germany or southern Sweden, this is an event you should mark in your calendar

Today was the day of the annual and traditional get-together arranged by the Copenhagen Fly Casting Club. Enjoyable as always.

This fall marks Mike Hogue's Badger Creek Fly-tying's 20th year in business. He never thought he would be in business that long.

The biennial fly show The Danish Fly Festival takes place this year in the weekend April 11th and 12th. I will be there. How about you?

A story about a group buying some of the Ernie Schwiebert fly collection.

I will be both teaching and tying with the GFF team at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum May 18th. Drop by if you're in the area.

Every second year a few thousand fly-fishers and fly-tyers from Denmark and Germany gather ind the southern part of Denmark for the biennial Fly Festival

The biennial Danish Fly Festival will take place the weekend March 23rd and 24th in Kolding in southern Denmark. Want to meet there?

This past weekend was the time for the Danish Fly Festival, which takes place every second year.

The International Fly Tying Symposium was held on November 17th and 18th in Somerset, New Jersey. As usual, the place was wall-to-wall fly tyers, tying everything from giant saltwater streamers to trout flies. Streamers, salmon flies, you name it - someone was tying it.

I attended a nice little fishing show yesterday

No, it's not an error. It's supposed to say instruction instruction. I want someone to instruct casting instructors

A sad announcement indeed

Irish Open Flytying Championship has delivered some beautifult flies

It's for the trade only. Joe Q. Public can't get in. Before any trade magazine, before any other internet webzine... let GFF be THE FIRST take you on an EXCLUSIVE tour of this invite-only show. See who hobnobbed at the show

I wish I could go there...

...we hope not! Every second year in May a small Dutch town called Zwolle is invaded by hordes of fly tyers and fly fishers from the whole Globe. This year's show was as good as any - but might be the last of its kind. Read about it and see the pictures in Martin Joergensen's extensive report from

How to go from Europe, Colorado and Endicott, NY to a fly show in New Jersey for 2½ days and still feel that it was worth all the trouble.

Martin's Story

What can I say? A crazy plan all the way! To go to New York for less than three days essentially to be together with a couple of fly fishing friends. How do you tell your wife, your kids, yourself - and your bank - that this is sane?
You don't, basically ...

Well, line up your arguments anyway:

Below we present you a brief pictorial essay of The Fly Tying Show, Saturday January 29, 2000.

"World's best coming to Idaho Falls" ... "1998 International Fly Fishing Show ... More than 100 seminars set" screamed the headlines of local Idaho newspapers. TV Channels 3 and 8 with day-today coverages of the event.

Always wonder... what do I have with this country - the US of A? Country of extremes, land of great beauty and enormous diversity, offering such a wide range of things to see and do.

The New Jersey area is not the worst place to be in November. This is the story about a lot of fishing and fly tying done in that area in the fall of 1997.

Danish Fly Festival 1997, Gallery. The Danish Fly Festival attracted both 'actors' and audience from many places. Here are a few pictures with impressions from the successful arrangement. All the pictures were taken with a digital camera and many were put online on the web during the Festival.

This story was mailed late november 1996 to both the U.S. and European flyfishing mailing lists.

The International Fly Tyers Symposium in New Jersey 1996 featured a lot of well known tyers. Here just a few of the impressive list.

The following report was sent to the flyfishing mailing lists - FlyFish@ and Euro-Flyfish@ - after my return from a most enjoyable Fly Fair in Holland May 1996.