Fly Tying Archive

Category: Events

  • GoExpo 2014

    GoExpo 2014 Some photos from the fishing fair in Helsinki last weekend. Spent Saturday and Sunday working at the Helsinki Spey Clave stand where we had Markus Männistö tying Deceivers for pike and Miki Äikäs tying his salmonflies. The busiest day was Saturday with almost 24000 visitors at GoExpo. Hard work but it was nice…

  • Finnish National Fly Tying Competition 2014

    Finnish National Fly Tying Competition 2014

    Finnish National fly tying competition Over the years I’ve got a lot of questions what kind of competition the nationals here are. To put it simply it’s a two day fly tying event where you tie flies in 4 hours each day and then the flies are judged anonymously by a panel of four judges.…

  • Helsinki Spey Clave Demo 2013

    Helsinki Spey Clave’s traditional spring demoday. Wasn’t working yesterday but managed to sneak couple hours to my day to go and take some photos at Helsinki Spey Clave. They had Håkan Norling, Tuomas Rytkönen and Heikki Turunen tying flies at the shop during the day and in the evening moved to the close by river…

  • GoExpo 2013

    GoExpo Fishing Fair 2013 in Helsinki I was again working at the Helsinki Spey Clave stand during the fair. This year we had invited Mikael Frödin to tie his beautiful tubeflies at our stand and also Tommy Aarkvisla from C.F. Burkheimer pro team to do casting demos on the pool. As usual the fair had…

  • Helsinki Spey Clave Bug Launcher Challenge

    Helsinki Spey Clave Bug Launcher Challenge Here’s a bit of Friday fun for you all. We had a new type of playful casting competition inside the shop at HSC with a miniature obstacle accuracy course. Everyone used the Bug Launcher office rod from TFO which is designed for indoor practice. We added a runningline to…

  • Workshop in Denmark

    Fly Tying Event in Denmark I was very happy when I was invited to be one of the 9 teachers in 2012 Fly Tying Event in Denmark. The organizer, Fly Fishing Federation Denmark, is a very big group of fishermen and they have plenty of experience in organizing events like these. They host the Danish…

  • GoExpo 2012

    GoExpo 2012 anglingfair Short video I put together on breaks while working at the Helsinki Spey Clave stand last weekend.  

  • Mikael Frödin workshop

    Mikael Frödin Now that we got started on the guest fly tyers and tube flies I’d suppose it’s only fair to give the stage to one of the innovative tyers behind the style. Here’s some photos from Sunday at Helsinki Spey Clave where Mikael Frödin was doing a fly tying class. The class seemed very…