Fly Tying Archive

Category: Events

  • Finnish national fly tying championship 2016

    National championship 2016.  Many who have followed me for a long time know that I’m a big fan of competition tying especially the live competitions like the Finnish Nationals. The competition has been arranged since 1984 and in the golden years had around 200 participants. Now the numbers have declined mostly due to internet and…

  • GoExpo 2016 fly fishing fair

    GoExpo 2016.  It has become a tradition for me to open up the show season here in Finland working at the Helsinki Spey Clave stand and this year was no exception. We had a good setup again with more products than ever before and Markus Männistö tying his pike deceivers which differ in construction from…

  • H.S.C. Classic Salmon Fly Challenge 2016

    H.S.C. Classic Salmon Fly Challenge 2016

    H.S.C. Classic Salmon Fly Challenge 2016 The biggest classic fly tying competition is upon us again. Deadline 25th of January 2016. Enter to win over 1000€ worth of prizes. For the rules and info on how to enter click here. For last years results and summary on judging check out this link.

  • H.S.C. Demo Day video with Mikael Frödin

    Video from HSC demo day and Mikael Frödin’s Masterclass. Here’s a short film I made for Helsinki Spey Clave from the events I posted about earlier. Also few clips from the Perfect Drift Masterclass by Mikael Frödin. Sorry about the audio quality on the masterclass clips, I didn’t know I was going to shoot video…

  • Helsinki Spey Clave Demo Day

    Helsinki Spey Clave Demo and Mikael Frödin’s Masterclass Traditional spring demo at Helsinki Spey Clave and this year the guys had arranged a free Masterclass presentation by Mikael Frödin for the customers. Micke also tied some salmonflies today at the shop before we headed out to test some new rods and lines. Håkan Norling was…

  • BFFI 2015

    British Fly Fair International 2015 Just went through the set of photos from UK where I attended the BFFI 2015. It was my first time at this legendary show and really enjoyed catching up with good old friends and plenty of new ones. I was seated in the “viking row” with Swedish and Norwegian tyers…

  • Damnation Screening in Helsinki

    Damnation screening in Helsinki and a seminar at the parliament about the future of our rivers An exhausting but still very motivational day at the Finnish parliament listening to politicians and scientists about the future use of our rivers and hydropower as a “green” source of energy. We have many local struggles with hydropower and…

  • Perhomessut 2014

    Perhomessut 2014

    Finnish Fly Fair 2014 I quickly stopped by at the Perhomessut aka Finnish Fly Fair on Saturday. Only had couple hours to spare and it went fast talking with old and new friends. It was a pleasure to finally meet Barry Ord Clarke from Norway as I have enjoyed his photography and tying for many…