We have just got a confirmation from our partners at Guideline Flyfishing, that a very limited edition of the Jazz & Fly Fishing Outdoor Suit will be launched for the summer market!
The jacket combines functionality and durable outdoor materials with a classy style. It’s the perfect jacket for a fly fishing jazz musician who can wear it on stage as well as in the water. This is the jacket for anyone who wants to look good on the fishing trip without losing functionality of a traditional fishing jacket.
Re-sellers and customers: please contact info@jazzandflyfishing.com for more information and pre-orders.
Tomorrow, 1st of April, is the Christmas Eve for all the seatrout fishermen in western Sweden. That’s the season opening, and the coast will be (again) filled with people chasing silver.
Here are five flies that will save the day! If you are new to flyfishing or fly tying, no problem, you can find these or similar in any tackle shop.
1. The Worm (Borstmask)
These worms are spawning in the beginning of the season, and they are a real treat for the hungry trout. Fish on shallow sandy flats where the water temperature gets higher. These flies can be a bit difficult to cast, but it’ll pay off when you match the hatch! Use long, steady pulls when you retrieve the fly.
The Worm (Borstmask)
2. The Shrimp (Pattegrisen)
You should always have a big shrimp pattern with you. It doesn’t really matter which model you use, try different colors and sizes. Use short, rapid twists combined with longer pauses.
The Shrimp (Pattegrisen)
3. Magnus (variation)
This is a classic west coast fly, probably representing a sort of shrimp or a small fish in the big fish’s eyes.
Magnus (variation)
4. Woolly Bugger
Also a good choise when the hairy worms are around. Make sure you have different colors in your box: black, brown, red, orange, green… With or without a cone or a gold/copper head. Works throughout the season!
Woolly Bugger
5. Small shrimp/Scud
I usually use this as a dropper. A big fly at the point will attract the fish, and this little fellow might be the one they want to bite on. The fish often takes the fly after a couple of fast movements followed by a long pause.
We’ll be at Sweden’s biggest fishing fair in Jönköping (Sportfiskemässan) this weekend! If you’re around, please come hear us play at 5 pm on Saturday at the main stage, otherwise we’ll be hanging at Guideline’s spot, showing our videos, and, playing some jazz – of course!
Since Håvard is an excellent guitar player and fly fisherman and I learned so much for him, I decided to look in the archives and see if I could find a present for him.
And indeed I did find something. Congratulations Håvard!
Me and Joona are in Helsinki. Let’s just say that we were bored about nothing happening in the winter and decided to step it up a bit. I don’t want to reveal exactly what we’re doing, but maybe something related to an upcoming competition. Also there may be some clues in these these pictures. What is Joona doing? And where the hell are we? WHY???
Hellau!
Our debut album, Slow Walking Water, will be released physically and digitally worldwide on the Norwegian label Bolage on May 8th 2011 (Spotify users will have to wait three months after that, but Wimp users will have it straight away).
However, we will start taking pre-orders right now!
If you order the album straight from us, you´ll get it dirt cheap (well, at a good price anyway), signed by all bandmembers, and, perhaps most importantly, you´ll get it NOW!
We´re working on a “shop”-function on the site now, but it probably won´t work until the record is out, so here´s how it happens:
1. You send an e-mail to Joona on toivanenjoona(æ)gmail.com
2. Joona puts the signed CD in an envelope and sends it to you together with an invoice
3. You get the music! Groovy, baby!
Don´t miss out on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Get yourself an album right now and be happy with yourself!
Be hip! Enjoy life! Make love, not war!
Håvard
For some reason, I look a little bit like Kjell Inge Røkke (filthy rich Norwegian guy) on this picture.
I´ve posted this video on the blog before, but another absurd youtube link sent to me by a friend today made me think of it again.
This video is priceless. Sorry, but here it is again:
Hi!
Our last gig at Parken, Gothenburg was great fun! Parken is a great venue for live music, and the people running the “Parken Jazz Series” of concerts are really commited to bringing quality music to the people. We dig.
Damien at Parken makes videos from all the performances in this concert series – a mix between shots from the show and interviews – and it was really interesting for us to get a fresh video-view on our project. Great work, Damien and Anders (the soundguy)!
It’s getting closer and closer. I count every week, day, minute and second. Maybe not the seconds to be honest, then I’ll go mad. Last week I woke up believing I was fighting a big trout – the madness is not far away after all…
What is it that drives to you mad and restless this time of the year? I’m of course talking about the sea trout season that starts the first of april!
I have spent a couple of hours tying flies during the winter. Last season I came up with some “new” patterns that worked surprisingly well. Actually these patterns are now my favorite patterns when it comes to sea trout fishing. Of course I didn’t invent them, these flies are more like variations of patterns that already exist (like most of the “new” flies of today) but the fact remains: they are very effective. They are… the bomb as Håvard would have put it.
We will do some advanced fly tying videos during this spring. That is a huge challenge! Is it really possible to create a fly tying video that is fun to watch? I’m not sure… or I am pretty sure – it is not possible to make a fly tying video fun to watch! We will do it anyway! If we won’t succeed, you can laugh at us instead!
Here are some samples of what the magic flies look like and their names. I have to say I’m very fond of the name Get-Olle, do you like it to?
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