WOW!!! It’s been a long long time since my last post here. For those of you that don’t know, this blog has now become the official blog of Iceland Angling Travel, an angling travel agency I started about a year ago. The first year has been good with plenty of happy clients returning to their homes with a smile on their face. Check the website for trips that might suit you or contact me at info@icelandangling.com for a custom made trip for you.We also have available rods in packaged trips that are short 1-2 rods in a more suitable group size. Details on the website.
Anyway.. now that the publicity is away it’s time to focus on the year 2009. What stands out for me personally is perhaps my involvement with the publication of a fly tying book here in Iceland, called “Trout flies”. That and of course my involvement with the crew at Gin – Clear media on the filming of their fly fishing movie, “The Source – Iceland”. I certainly look forward to seeing the movie.
My job with the fly tying book was to do the text editing and write most of the text in there. The book features six well
The cover of the new fly tying book just out.
known fly tiers and anglers here in Iceland and the main idea was to give them the chance to open their fly boxes, pick out their favorite flies and secret weapons and present to the rest of the angling world in Iceland. When the project started getting some buzz we started getting calls from fly tiers that wanted to add some of their secret weapons in their so we did a special feature in the back of the book with flies from five more tiers.
This book was the third and last volume in a series of fly tying books called “In the Icelandic nature”. The first one, “Salmon flies”, is now also available in English. The second one, “Streamers”, was published in 2008 and features Iceland’s top streamer specialist. This one, “Trout flies”, simply has nymphs, dries and wet flies, over 100 flies.
Who knows what the future holds and we might be looking at English versions of the books in the years to come.
That’s it for now but I might get the permission to throw in the recipe for a secret weapon from the book!!
Stay tuned,
Stjani Ben
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