Hi!
It´s been a while since our last video, but we got some really nice material this season, and have some winter-shortening videos coming up soon.
First, a video that has very little to do with fly fishing (but there are a couple of fly fishing-related things in there, if you watch it carefully).
The song is called Atlantis, and it´s taken from my own Håvard Stubø Quartet´s quartet album Vilhelmina. It´s available on CD and vinyl as well as digitally right now.
Hope you like it!
Later –
H.
16th of june was booked since a couple of weeks back. Me and Fredrik found one single night we were able to go fishing together. It turned out to be a very beautiful evening as we arrived to the coast at sunset. Our friend Joel joined us and we were looking forward to the night fishing for sea trout. These midsummer nights have been good and we had a good feeling about the trip. When we got to the shore we saw that the water lever was very low and the wind was blowing from the “wrong” direction. Maybe it wasn’t going to be as good as we expected after all.
After some casts, coffee and sandwitches we had landed a couple of trout babies but saw nothing bigger. Then at the darkest hour Fredrik found a couple of feeding fish and was eagerly casting on those. He put on a really slim, simple fly and tried to present it very slowly. That seemed to be the trick. He lost one good fish and a missed a couple of strikes, but after a moment he landed a beautiful, big seatrout around 2,5 kilos. He handed the fly over to me – I was working on another fish that had been up on the surface. Moments later, I managed to hook that one and land a pretty, fat seatrout around 1,5 kilos. The night was turning out to be really good after all.
As the activity went down and I started to freeze, I took a walk to another spot that I knew often held good fish. I didn’t see anything in the surface and started blind casting. After a few casts something took the fly and I realized it was a trout way bigger than the one I landed earlier. Fredrik and Joel saw that I might needed help and rushed to me with the net and a camera. As the fish finally was landed, we saw what a beast it really was.
My personal trout record has now been adjusted to 68 centimeters, 3,8 kilos. I can tell you it was quite a relief to land a fish like this after all the curses and lost fish (see the ep.4 of Season 2 and you’ll get what I mean). And the summer up here has just begun…
Yes! At last, here are the two final episodes of Season Two. Enjoy!
There is a djungel of fly fishing leaders out there. Do you have you own favorite?
I have tried a lot of different brands and lengths but never really found a leader that beats the ones I tie myself. I did not invent this formula, only got inspired from a legend in the fly fishing world; Charles Ritz. He developed his own system and I changed it a little bit in order to make it work where I go fishing. I prefer pretty long leaders… 10 feet or more when fishing sea trout in the ocean and 12 feet or more when the dry fly is floating downstream some secret nordic river.
If you want to try, here is the JFF formula. You do not have to add extra centimeters in order to compensate lost material when doing the knot, it is already done. Loop knot: Perfection loop, all other knots: The blood knot. (it becomes slightly more aerodynamic than the grinner knot).
One more thing! The quality of the monofilament you use is of course very important. Check out different brands and compare the stiffness. You want a pretty stiff line in order to make the fly turn over when fishing, We use Maxima or Stroft…
Ok, it looks like this:
Dry fly leader, modified Ritz leader
0.50 = 140 cm
0.45 = 102 cm
0.40 = 46 cm
0.35 = 36 cm
0.30 = 29 cm
0.25 = 24 cm
0.20 = 20 cm
0.16 = 100 cm (last piece = flour carbon)
Total length ≈ 14 feet
Seatrout leader
0.50 = 130 cm
0.45 = 92 cm
0.40 = 44 cm
0.32 = 36 cm
0.27 = 30 cm
0.24 = 92 cm (last piece = flour carbon)
Total lenght ≈ 12 feet
Please let us know how you like the leaders! Good luck! /Fredrik
Hello, dear friends!
Easter is over, and Episode 2 of Season Two is ready. Fittingly for Easter, the episode´s main theme is sacrifice and rejuvenation of faith. Other than that, there are few biblical references…
Season Two Episode 2: The Sacrifice from Jazz & Fly Fishing on Vimeo.
Press CC on the player for English subtitles.
Hope you like it!
My little video from last year, Focus, was one of the nominees for the Italian short film contest Tellmefishing. This Monday, I was happy to receive this mail:
The jury panel has been very satisfied with the videos received on the occasion of the first edition of Tellmefishing Video Contest and has decided to give, in addition to the official award, special mentions to some worthy videos .
In particular, it has been given a special mention for experimentation to the video:
“Focus”
Considered as an interesting experimental and research work on the use of images and the study of sounds and soundtrack.
Finally, we inform you that the winner of Tellmefishing Video Contest is:
Jonas Borinski with the video ” Luke”
Awarded for having communicated effectively , personally and emotionally the intimate and intense relationship between man and nature. A relationship that requires solitude , silence and rituals , expressed in images, gestures and music in complete harmony with the flow of water and nature.
And here are the two videos, Focus and Jonas Borinski’s Luke:
While waiting for the next episode in S.2, I will try to ventilate a rhythmic theory of mine. It is actually not about drumming but something as simple as fly casting. Or is it really that simple? Just grab a rod, attach a fly, cast 100 feet and catch a fat trout…
Maybe not that simple but still very logic. To make a proper cast, all you have to do is to load and unload the rod. Shadow casting is something else, that took us years to master and yet we have only seen the beginning of the shadow era… Over to regular overhand casting again; Simple, yes, but it is a little bit like music – the more we try the more difficult it gets. I recently started up a guiding company together with a nice guy (more about this later). I´ve already taught a lot of people how to grip the basic elements in fly casting but since I also have taught a lot of drummers, I keep thinking that there must be other ways to explain and other words to use. New words, never heard before anywhere. How about words like lobbo, stapp, jissie? Ok, cut the crap and continue…
I do now want to declare that I´m on to something!
This is very hard to express from a computer but I´m on a train right now and have no access to music sheet, so I´ll give it a try:
Ok, here we go: //: 1 2and 3 4and ://
Do you have it? Odd numbers is forward stop (or slow start)
Even numbers = back cast stop
And=drift after back stop
Count “one two three four one two three four and so on…”. Snap your fingers on every beat… Do you have it? DO YOU HAVE IT?
Well, it´s probably better to make a short video about this. At least I tried. Tried and failed. Tried too much perhaps?
Next time you fish or find your self standing practicing you casting stroke in a mudd hole, try not to try too much. Very complex, I know, but sometimes it is the best thing to do. Over and out, see you in E.2, coming soon in a world close to you… /F
The burger cast
Yep:
Season Two Episode 1: The Only Way Is Up from Jazz & Fly Fishing on Vimeo.
It´s been a really long road, but here´s the first episode of Season Two. Hope you like it!
We don´t have a releasedate for Episode 2 yet, but it should be ready very soon. We´ll let you know, so stay tuned!
PS! Those of you who follow all our videos will notice that although this is a brand new edit and a lot of the material in the video is new, large parts of this video were released as “The Only Way Is Up” two years ago, right after we started working on this project. The next three episodes will feature previously unseen material only.
Later –
H
Hi! Yesterday I found one of my broken fly lines. It happens now and the and I have a couple of broken lines I have to admit. My standard behavior is to think like this when I find these line monsters: It might be useful, lets put i where I found it. I know that some guys use a warming pistol (directly translated swedish, might sound funny in you ears) and melt different lines together. Sounds cool but its not for me. So far I dont have a clue about about what to do with these line monsters… until today:
-Aha! Tying material! Caddis bodies!
Well, it is nor very revolutionary, but still, I really do believe in this fly pattern. Easy to tie, perfect siluette and positioned low in the surface. I will for sure bring a couple of line dancers this summer! Hmm, lets see… where are my new fly lines…
How to tie them:
/Linefredrik
Hi!
Finally the trailer for Jazz & Fly Fishing Season Two is here! Enjoy 🙂
We are going to release four 15 minute episodes digitally during this winter and spring. And they will be completely free!
Enjoy and stay tuned for Episode 1!
Tapani
Jazz & Fly Fishing Season Two TRAILER from Jazz & Fly Fishing on Vimeo.
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