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Hi Martin. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your article, and managed to get a good few valuble tips, thanks! Especially about the flies!
Im heading over to Braurap with my uncle next mont for a long weekend of hopefully fantastic fishing, it is a bit late in the season i believe but the early mornings and evenings should be productive.

Thanks for great read!

I agree that flyfishing gear in general is overpriced, but it's a combination of what the traffic will bear, and volume. How many spinning reels are manufactured for each fly reel, ya reckon? I'm a machinist, and I know about CNC processes. You can make a million way cheaper per than you can make a thousand.

Hi, today I bought Pearl barred Sili Legs distributed by Veniard. It looks very interesting and do the job well.

Hello from Canada!! I love this article as it shows that you can fish anywhere in the world on a budget!! I have read the rules and regs about the land here and would like to make a solo attempt at this amazing lake soon this year, how could I get ahold of this land owner and stay on or get some kind of access with little $$?? or if anyone knows then send me an email! I would meet anyone somewhere close to there and fish with them aswell, Thank you soo much if you can help me with my dream!!!

Hello from Canada!! I love this article as it shows that you can fish anywhere in the world on a budget!! I have read the rules and regs about the land here and would like to make a solo attempt at this amazing lake soon this year, how could I get ahold of this land owner and stay on or get some kind of access with little $$?? or if anyone knows then send me an email! I would meet anyone somewhere close to there and fish with them aswell,, melks@live.ca my name is matt,, Thank you soo much if you can help me with my dream!!!

Can someone tell me where this guy is fishing?

Right on the nose with your rant Martin!
Fly reels are simple center pin reels that do not require micro fine machining except in the bearing. The best I have come across down here in New Zealand is all S/S of surgical quality. In this one the spool is bushed with 2 units which run on a shaft with lubricating grooves. Drag is a simple clicker backed up by an exposed rim and your finger or palm. The back and spool are of an alloy, what I do not know. There is no name on the reel and I bought it second hand about 10 years ago for the equivelent of $25.00 US. There is no sign of deteriation in that time and it has been well used and helped to account for many fine trout in the 2 to 4 kg range. Of course as an avid angler I own many rods and reels but this little gem is my pride and joy.

Wow!!! I saw a fella fishing a reverse spider on the water a while ago, and have been tying it as best I can (from memory) for maybe two or three years now..... It's an awesome cut throat fly, and now I have some great variation ideas!!! Thanks so much! I love this fly!!!!!!!!

I like the trout and the fly video tv

Sorry, but I didn't find this video all that inspirational or even interesting. All the close-ups, blurring the camera lens and all the fancy film work actually takes away from the beauty of the sport. Look around you and the beauty is right there. You don't need all the other stuff; just film it as it happens.

Aquiles

Indeed, acces to the hotspots isn´t easy...let me know when you in town.

see you arround Heiko

I wonder what sorts of fish you can get in Klaraälven ? My daughter, my son in law and my grandchildren have bouht a summerhous in Uggenäs and they are living by the stream for hollyday. They want to learn about fishing in Klara. We used to fish forell in Norwegian streams. Pardon my bad English, I`m an old lady and I have forgotten a lot of what I learned in school 60 years ago.
Grandma.

agree with kaspers view. i was dissapointed watching it. it was like a cocktail or better say mess. Those places are familiar to me and they definetely chose not the best rivers forsteelhead fishing.... strange..

i would vote 2 out of 6

beautifull!! I´m from Villaguay ER, I didn´t know that dorados could be fishing with flies in the lake, I fish dorados in the Uruguay river near Salto ROU and in the Paraná river near Rincón SF. Where did you enter to the coast?
thanks Aquiles

Flies are nice for fun, but vanilla cornmeal balls are a sure strike for carp.

mix cornmeal, flour, corn starch with real vanilla extract and hot water. form into balls powder with starch and (somehow) manage to keep it on a hook for a cast. The carp will strike, no doubt.

Again Sir, since you obviously have absolutely no quality sense by comparing a cheap china made bicycle hub with a machined fly reel, I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that you can buy a 10 meters long telescopic match rod in Germany for approx. £30. In your mind, what objectives justify then that I should spend £600 on a new G.Loomis NRX rod which is only 2.75 meters long..? Yours beautifully, Max

Oh Leo, that is the best looking shrimpfly you have ever created. looking forward to see you catch many big seatrout this fall, when we go fishing together. Maby someday, i will come by your house, and get some off your rubber legs.
See you, my friend.