ADVENTURE IS ONLY ONE CAST AWAY
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The 3 Ps
Top 10 single malts Booze & Wines
Pasi Visakivi
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Funen
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Kendjam - Heart of the Amazon” is a 15-minute documentary movie featured in the 64th edition of Catch Magazine. Catch Magazine is an online journal featuring the world’s best fly fishing photography and film. The making of “Kendjam” took filmmaker Todd Moen and his angler subject deep into the Brazilian Amazon forest to meet a special group of people, the Kayapó Indigenous Community, and to document the fly fishing in this part of the Amazon. More than 500 miles by plane from Manaus, Brazil, […]
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TYING
Sedge pupa A fine fly
This fly is originated by Davie Mc Phail. So check it out at Davies website!
TRAVEL
Winter on Funen Most fly anglers travel to Denmark during spring and autumn. According to many the best time to catch sea trout on a fly, leaving summer fishing to the locals and the ‘family holiday anglers’. Winter A week on the island of Funen during winter is an adventure all its own. Conditions can be very tough; weather wise, but also finding fish. On the other hand, if you like peace and tranquillity, there is no better season than winter. Becoming part of a crispy clear world where, with a little common sense and some endurance, you can find very good fishing for sea trout, in a truly magnificent landscape.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
photographer a dying profession Part 2 Making photos (with a phone) has become part of our lifestyle. Today’s phones have apps which include filters that an analog photographer would have killed for. You can be a total novice and still shoot some decent pictures. The question then arises: is there a future for professional photographers? Especially when knowing that it is already a trend to let journalists make their own pictures!? Reason enough to showcase 3 photographers. FROM ANALOG TO MAKING PICTURES WITH YOUR PHONE
The 3 Ps Pasi, Piet & Peter
Pasi Visakivi Fly fishing lifestyle photographer
P asi
A big passion of mine is photography. Shooting photos of nature, river life and fly fishing in general is an endless source of inspiration for me. Combining photography and fishing is not always easy (as Peter himself knows all too well :) Toting all your camera stuff, standing in a fast current, is pretty demanding. My backpack weighs in over 14 kg, due to all sorts of relevant (and irrelevant) camera gear. Quality weighs a lot in this business!
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CAMPING
Hanging high & dry If you ever want to experience true relaxation, you have to try this hammock. It not only feels good, it also keeps you dry, and the mosquito net cover guarantees a good night’s (or day’s) sleep. LINK
LIFESTYLE
Hollywood trainers club Keeping in shape is nowadays a must for the demanding fly angler. You can’t hike 15 miles through rough terrain to get to your special secret lake or river if you do not exercise. To join the ladies from The Hollywood Trainers Club, you don’t have to leave home. And believe me, these girls know how to make you sweat!
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Top 10 tents
Camping When planning a camping trip, one of the first things on your list should be a tent. Luckily for you TOP 10 ZONE made a list of their ten favourite tents.
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What’s hot
Food from an open fire ‘There are hardly any right words to describe what a meal, prepared on an open fire in nature smells and taste like’.
For inspiration check out Michael and let him take your relationship with food to a new level! LINK TO PAGE
TRAVEL
Travel & relaxing
At the moment nobody goes anywhere. Which means that the urge to travel is increasing every day. Luckily there is a YT channel that offers a view from above in 4K. Besides feeding the hunger for travel, watching the scenery from above is very relaxing!
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LIFESTYLE
Whiskey By Booze & Wines Drinking whiskey single malt is a matter of personal preference. The palate varies from phenolic and iodine-stained, to full and smoky, to light and floral. Booze & Wines tries to give you their best possible advice, but in the end your taste is what matters. Especially as a beginner you should try a number of different single malt whiskies before you can appreciate which ones you don’t like and especially which ones you do.
Whiskey taste card You can use the whisky single malt flavour card ( link) to help you choose a single malt. This card is illustrative of the taste possibilities of some whiskeys.
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Booze & Wines
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The most frustrating flats fish 10 tips for (maybe) catching Permit 1) It is impossible to be too stealthy. Stealth has many facets, starting with the outfit you put on when you start the day. Bright colours that stand out will spook fish. Dress to be invisible and yes, cloud camo is a real thing. 2) The correct length of leader is the longest one that you can cast accurately, given the wind conditions for the day. 3) Don’t false cast over the fish. In bright sun and calm conditions, I sometimes go so far as to use a floating fly line with a clear tip or even a completely clear line. 4) If you hear waves slapping against the hull of the boat you are in, get out and wade to the fish. You can sneak up on a wary flats fish a lot better on foot than you can in a boat. 5) Use a fly that has movement. Rubber legs, marabou, rabbit strips and arctic fox hair are features on most of my favourite permit and bonefish flies. 6) Getting the right weight on your fly might be more important than the pattern itself. Heavier for windy conditions and deeper water, lighter in shallower water and on calmer days. When you stop the strip, the weight forward design of most permit flies will cause the fly to dive for the bottom. The fly’s sink rate is a critical component of your potential success, especially in a crab fly. 7) I have found that it is easier to create a lifelike shrimp fly than it is to create a lifelike crab imitation. I have seen many permit reject an actual blue crab if it doesn’t wildly kick its legs as the permit approaches, even though it is a perfect imitation in look and smell. 8) Prey never attacks the predator. Always place your cast in a place that allows the fly to look like it is trying to escape. Never strip the fly towards the fish. If your only shot at the fish is quartering away, let the fly fall to the bottom as if it is trying to hide and wait for the fish to try and dig it out of the bottom. Put yourself in the mind of the crab or shrimp that you are trying to imitate. 9) Cast as close to the fish as you can without spooking them. You will never catch a fish that doesn’t see the fly, but the less time he has to look it over, the better chance you have of fooling him. As soon as you see the fish react to the fly, get it moving or hide it in the grass. 10) As in all fly fishing, it’s better to be lucky than good. James Johnson and his family own Johnson’s Outdoors and operate the Blue Bonefish Lodge in Belize, as well as Katmai Trophy.
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