Earlier this week, the United States Supreme Court heard a 17 year-long legal battle between the State of Washington and Native American Tribes over fishing rights. The Supreme Court was deadlocked in a four to four tie, leaving the previous decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit intact. This decision mandated that the State of Washington expend billions of dollars for repairs to infrastructure that threatens and degrades salmon habitats and populations. While this primarily represents a win for Native American Tribes, this ruling will assist salmon recovery efforts in the region and should not go unnoted. In a never-ending battle for fish conservation in the Pacific Northwest, this is a huge win!
Melissa Erkel, a fish-passage biologist with the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, looks at a culvert along the north fork of Newaukum Creek near Enumclaw, Wash., on June 22, 2015. (Ted S. Warren / AP)
This week’s featured video is one of my favorites from this year’s run of the F3T. Beyond the Horizon is a film about some of the best saltwater fishing on the planet, and the battles that it takes to get to such remote places. Follow along as some ambitious anglers do everything that it takes to start a fishing destination at a place that “doesn’t exist on the map”.
This film was created by Cold Collaborative, be sure to give them a follow and check out their amazing content.
The Video of the Week is written and selected by FlyLords team member Conner Grimes.
Though she wasn’t born into a fishing family, April somehow entered this world genetically programmed to fish. She’s been on the water ever since. Today, when she’s not guiding the fabled rivers of British Columbia, teaching fly tying and casting, writing about fishing and appearing in fishing films, April fights to protect wild fish. On her days off, she goes fishing. via Patagonia Ambassador Page
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Flylords: I know you are always traveling somewhere cool, so my first question is where are you right now? April: Currently in Manly, Australia and getting antsy.Flylords: Tell us about the first time you picked up a fly rod… Did this moment change your life? April: I’d been keen to try fly-fishing when I was a gear-fisher in my teens, but I couldn’t get my hands on any fly equipment.My fishing buddy (a salty dog who was forty years my senior) had an old Shakespeare glass 8wt collecting dust in the corner of his tackle room.As he had no interest in fly-fishing, he gifted it to me. He also gave me a handful of VHS tapes about single-hand casting and fly-tying.I watched all those tapes on repeat; sitting on the edge of the couch mimicking the cast with my hands, tying flies with my mom’s sewing thread and random materials from around the house.Our VCR didn’t have a remote control, so I spent most of my time getting up and down, pausing the tapes so I could catch up to each step.
Flylords: How would you describe your job title? April: Busy AF.In all seriousness though, over the years I’ve figured out which roles to sub-contract out or simply get rid of in order to make me more time and money.After ten years of guiding, I gave it up to better maximize my time.Same with television, though that may change in the near future.So I suppose these days I am technically a podcaster, writer, instructor, booking agent, public speaker, etc.
Flylords: Tell us about the last fish you caught! April: Good question… probably a small tuna.We’ve just now come to the end of the rut here in Australia and I’ve literally spent almost every waking moment stalking deer with a bow in hand.
Flylords: Do you think fly fishing is growing as a whole? What about the number of ladies Vs men? April: It appears to be.It’s always an interesting topic of conversation for me.While I can’t speak on behalf of license sales, it sure feels like it’s growing.The rivers are busier than I remember them ever being, there are far (FAR) more Spey casters on the water (I’m noticing many gear/bait anglers have picked up fly-fishing over the last seven or eight years), and there are more fisherman and women on social media than I ever could have predicted (in a million years).But to be fair, I’ve also heard that many of these rivers were booming before I was even born.It makes me wonder if a lot of the older anglers (many of whom we have unfortunately lost) have just been replaced by younger, more public ones whose presence on the internet make us assume that there are more people on the water?Maybe there were always this many people, but we just didn’t see them as blatantly…? I’ve been actively fishing BC’s river since I was sixteen years old (and playing in them for over a decade before that), so I feel confident in my observations over the last twenty to thirty years… but I’d be a whole lot more confident with my answer if I had fifty or sixty years of changes to reflect upon. As far as women vs men.Absolutely.I remember when there was a handful of us (in BC anyway) and a handful in some states of the US.These were pre-internet days when fly shops and fishing buddies went out of their way to introduce many of us gals to one another. When I first started guiding in BC, I could count the women who guided before me on one hand.Again, all of this to say “in my opinion, from what I’ve seen”…It really doesn’t mean much without any stats or numbers to prove it one way or the other.Flylords: How do you think social media has influenced the sport? April: O let me count thy ways…Social media has done some pretty wonderful things, but it obviously has some drawbacks.The main positives are that we can now easily network with like-minded people and drum up action for causes that need public support.On the other hand, we can tend to love a fishery to death by bringing it more attention than it can handle.But that’s me referring to the fisheries…. How does it influence the sport?Well, I suppose it encourages some people to get into it?I’m not sure really.I know that not a single one of my friends who doesn’t fish has been inspired by my social media posts to get into fly-fishing, so it’s hard for me to really stand by the optimistic perspective that it “gets more people into the sport”.I dunno… it gives people a way to offer discount codes in their profiles and weigh out their importance by how many followers they have?Sarcasm aside, for me it gets my podcast into far more ears than I could otherwise access.Many of my guests don’t use the internet, let alone social media, so their stories may otherwise become lost.I admit that it’s pretty special to have a 20-year-old message me for the contact info of a 90-year-old, and then find out later that they met for coffee. In summary, I honestly don’t know how great it is for the sport apart from helping to sell gear, destinations, and sponsors… it’s a debatable subject depending on personal viewpoints:are fisheries better or worse because of social media?Are fisheries and sport one in the same?It’s all a matter of perspective.Personally, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed almost all of the people I’ve met on Instagram (Facebook is a different beast).They’ve all just been really, truly cool.Plus, as a new mom, Instagram has been an invaluable tool for me to connect with other outdoorsy moms/dads to share our experiences/ideas about spending time with our children outside!
Photo: @andrew_burr
Flylord: I know you have been on some pretty wild adventures, have you had any life-threatening moments out there? April: You bet.I had some pretty interesting bear run-ins when I used to guide on the Dean, but they weren’t as scary as when I flipped my raft on it.I was coming up on a steep 90-degree bend — one that I’d portaged around the year before.I thought I could run it in my Watermaster, but I started too far mid-stream (I’m embarrassed to admit that I cut a wide berth around my husband who was wisely walking his raft downstream… in retrospect, I was doomed from the start). I got swept into the mess and, while I made the first drop, the second one was bigger than my boat was and it simply ate me whole.I’d prepped for the worst (kicked the dog off, zipped up my jacket, ran my fingers over where my PFD pulley was (which I found out later was foolish… serious rafters don’t rely on inflatable PFD’s with cartridges), ensured I was in wading pants (I don’t think I would have made it out if I’d been wearing full waders), and told my husband I loved him (he thought I was kidding and being dramatic). When I flipped, I was tossed around and everything was just instantly murky and eerily quiet.I didn’t know which way was up, but I pulled the life jacket tab and floated to the surface.That was only the first part of it… then I had to manage to get to shore.
My boots felt like concrete and I started to feel the water creep in under my zipped-up vest and jacket.I just remember thinking that I was going to drown ten feet from shore.I could see it — it was so close — but I just could not get to it regardless of how hard I kicked.I just kept trying… dreading the upcoming rapid that was coming up quickly downstream.Foolishly, as soon as I felt the bottom underneath me, I went to stand up (argh, everyone knows not to do that) and was swept out again.There was a bush extending over the riverbank and I was able to grab it.It swung me in and I crawled like hell onto the shore.My nails were literally scraped raw from clawing at rocks to get back on land.Needless to say, I won’t run a rapid like that again without better scoping, a bigger boat and a lifejacket that doesn’t require cartridge activation.
Note, when I called to sign up for an advanced rafting course, they told me that something like only 30% of people actually remember to pull the chord in the moment of panic (assuming they don’t get knocked out).
Flylords: What is your favorite species to target and why? April: Steelhead.They’re wild, they’re resilient, they’re in some truly gnarly places, and they’re in my blood. Flylords: I know you recently had your first kid, first off congrats, tell us a little about her? Has it been difficult to keep up with your crazy schedule with a newborn around? April: I’ve never laughed so much in my life — kiddo is hilarious. I’m going to sound like such an ass right now, but nothing has changed (except that I need to pay attention to someone else’s appetite).I keep waiting for the exhaustion and “handcuffs”, but they haven’t kicked in yet.She’s been hunting with me since she was three weeks old, has been fishing with me in NZ and AUS, whines less on road trips than my husband does, and is an absolute superstar when it comes to entertaining. If I had to really nitpick, it’s that I can’t bring her offshore on a boat.I don’t feel it’s responsible taking her marlin fishing (she was born in December as marlin season started).She has a little PFD, but it makes everything awkward trying to hold her, etc.That said, a breast pump and in-laws ensure that I still get plenty of boat time. So yeah, really not that many changes.I definitely have to stay up later to work at night and I’ve gotten pro at editing/writing with one hand, but I usually just involve her in the process (she’s doing this interview with me right at this very moment).I read my articles to her, and she loves watching the audio clips of my podcast peak and drop…At this rate, she’s going to have one hell of a vocabulary.
Photo:@adam.greentree
Flylords: Tell us a little about the evolution of your podcast, I am assuming it’s one of the biggest out there in the industry. Do you have one interview you can recommend our readers to listen to? April: It all started when I used to have Shorelines with April Vokey, a WFN exclusive series that I wrote about the parallels between steelhead and Atlantic salmon.The show was made up of a collection of interviews from anglers and biologists from around the country.With each television episode being limited to 24.5 minutes, my hour long interviews were being cut down to three or four minute blurbs!It was then that I decided a podcast might be the best method of sharing my interviews without mass editing or censored content. Flylords: What was it like meeting Donald Trump Jr. April: I had scheduled to meet Don Jr at the Trump tower in NY.It was surreal having to go through the secret service to get upstairs.He was welcoming, straight-forward, and seemingly relieved to take a couple of hours to talk about something other than business.Plus, he didn’t rush me to “get on with it” as I assumed he might.After the interview he showed me his fishing journal, compound bow, some outdoor pics… he was just like any of my fishing buddies who are passionate about the sport.And, just as I do with my fishing buddies, we avoided talking about politics.
Flylords: Do you have any fish on your bucket list? April: I would like to actually land a marlin.I’ve hooked them but haven’t landed one yet.Flylords: If you had to pick one mentor for you in the fly fishing industry who would it be? April: I’ve had a lot of wonderful fly-fishers contribute bits and pieces to the person I am today, but there is one in particular who stands out above the rest.Aaron Goodis helped me study for my CCI, helped me with my Spey cast, gave me fly-tying inspiration, was there for me when I started my business, was patient with me when I was young and selfish, and most importantly, reminded me that every day is a gift.Aaron is the most incredible mentor I could have ever asked for.
Flylords: Can you give us three Instagrams you recommend our followers to check out. April: Adrienne Comeau @adriennecomeau Nick Kelley @ngkelley Jillian Lukiwski @thenoisyplume
Flylords: Can you recommend a good read? April: For casting, Al Buhr’s Two Handed Fly Casting.For fun, Miles Nolte’s The Alaska Chronicles.
Flylords: What’s next? April: The little lady and I leave for Fiji in two weeks and then will be making our way through BC, Florida, Norway, Oregon, Exmouth, and then back to BC for four months in camp.It’ll just be the two of us on most of our travel, so I fully expect this to be the most challenging year I’ve had so far.Maybe this will be where I eat my words about how difficult it’s been to keep up with a baby around.Only time will tell.
For more from April be sure to check out her podcast and instagram @aprilvokey
Yup, you read the title correctly. The high-running Potomac River flooded parts of Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, leading to quite the opportunity for Arwel Evans. Evans, who had traveled to D.C. all the way from Wales on vacation, decided to take out his fly rod and head down to the flooded areas of Washington D.C. for one of those exploratory sessions that we have all attempted. Except he was successful and lucky enough to have his session documented by local photographer, Loic Pritchett. We were unable to get in contact with Evans, but according to Angela Fritz of the Washington Post, he hooked into some carp where people normally eat picnics–congrats, Arwel! It’s always a cool trip when that unorthodox plan works out! For more on the story, check out this Washington Post article.
Photos Courtesy of Loic Pritchett and Angela Fritz, Washington Post.
Have you ever heard of Back Bay in Virginia? If not, you’re not alone. If so, you may be one of the lucky bunch who had the opportunity to fish it during its heyday, back in the time that Lefty Kreh said was the best bass fishing he’d seen anywhere.
Photos from the heyday of Back Bay fishing.
I personally hadn’t heard of Back Bay until Cory Routh of Ruthless Outdoor Adventures contacted Flymen Fishing Company looking to collaborate on producing a film chronicling the rise and fall (and the beginnings of the current resurrection) of Back Bay. Cory, a member of the Flymen Guide Program, had already filmed interviews with Lefty and Walt Cary, the content of which left the Flymen team intrigued about this legendary fishery.
About a month later, I packed my bags and headed up to Back Bay with the Flymen crew so we could work with Cory to shoot some final content for the film.
The filming happened to be timed perfectly with Flymen conducting pre-launch testing for the new Surface Seducer Double Barrel Bass Bug foam poppers, which later won Best of Show — Freshwater Fly Pattern at the International Fly Tackle Dealer Show.
Working with Flymen Fishing Co. and Ruthless Outdoor Adventures on this project was an eye-opening experience, and it was an incredible honor to be part of a project that Lefty played a major role in.
You may have heard the saying, “If you want something done right, do it yourself.” One of the most inspiring aspects of the story of Back Bay is the Back Bay Restoration Foundation. After the destruction of the fishery (you’ll see what happened to it when you watch the film), the local community banded together, taking ownership and action to begin bringing it back. Todd Barnes, who is President of the organization and is featured in the short film, generously let us use his property as a base camp during the weekend of filming.
Back Bay premiered at the Virginia Fly Fishing & Wine Festival, was part of the Orvis Down The Hatch Film Festival, and will be featured in a Hobie TV episode airing on the Pursuit Channel and CBS Sports Network in late April and early May 2018.
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The Maruia River is a gorgeous river with beautiful, predictable riffles, runs, and pools. It has great spotting banks and flows through a mix of pasture and beech forest. It doesn’t stand out among southern island rivers but compliments nearby water with a gentler feel than others in the Lewis Pass. On sunny days, the river can be fire.
We haven’t fished New Zealand’s Maruia River the past 5 years because it smacks of all the same things that frustrate us about our home brown trout waters in central Alberta. When a cold front sweeps up the west coast of the South Island, two things occur: heavy rain falls on the west side of the divide, and the air and water temperatures about the divide fall dramatically. The Maruia gets smacked with this double-edged sword every year through early January. It seems the trout have grown to accept the resulting high, cold water conditions and have established where and how to ride them out. From an angler’s perspective, the Browns simply go doggo and wait. A good run of water that should have browns popping or swaying to feed? Nope. Check the very recess of the tail out about a foot off a cut bank or the pillow above a shoreline rock. Doggo. Stoned-cold. Our brown trout here at home do the same because our spring and fall temperatures and barometric pressure gradients can be severe.
Thankfully this condition isn’t hard-set, universally absolute amongst trout species. Rainbows, cutthroat, and whitefish act and feed decidedly different in facing these temperature gradients. For my money, after a steep cold front I’m looking to fish a river with whitefish and cutties first, then targeting riffled up rainbows, with browns and brookies sought last.
There are 10 things I keep in mind after a steep conditions change. These should be learned and applied as they can help set expectations, hopes, and tactics on such days on your home water:
1. If there is too steep a barometric and temperature change, you can forget it.
I can’t begin to describe how many times, particularly in fall and late spring, that a steep temperature and barometric curve kills trout feeding activity. Summer is less impacted because there’s not much chance of the bottom falling out (read: snow). But if a spring or fall day is in the 20s C (70s F) and the next day has snow on the ground and the storm is heavy, chances are that you are in for a rough day of sluggish fish regardless the hatch density. That steep curve has impact and trout usually need a day to adjust.
2. Hatches that do occur aren’t likely until 1 or 2 pm.
Temperature and barometric pressure changes affect the entire ecosystem. It all slows down. There are always exceptions (like tailwaters, lake outflows, and some spring creeks) but if there’s a serious drop in temperature, timing gets pushed way back. If you love hatches and are loathe to fish streamers or nymphs, sleep in and drive slowly through Starbucks.
3. When heavier hatches do come off, trout will likely go nuts under protected cover of dark skies.
The catch? You might not see a single rise because trout may not feel up to the task of rising. Remember, they’re still a little sluggish to rise vertically in the water column but are almost certain to be willing to sway to feed on drift and emerging nymphs at depth. Hatches get going in the afternoon, but the migration, movement, and early insect emergence can occur an hour earlier, so that’s a great time to get the nymph gear going.
4. Straight-line/Czech-nymphing is king in slots and riffles.
Those spring and fall condition gradients are perfect for these water features because of the ever-presence of baetis (olives) and other clinger mayflies that love broken rock and gravel. Some form of straight line, in-line, point-fly nymphing is incredibly effective. If you did nothing but target 2 or 3 prime riffles and troughs in a 4 or 5-hour outing, you’ll likely have a ball. You’re good to go with a 2-foot dropper in shallow riffles, shelves, and troughs also. Amelia & I floated the Clark Fork a couple of days last spring with a friend. He fished straight line nymphing with an orange, in-leader bead indicator system and cleaned house in the deeper riffles. I didn’t want to fish that way, preferring to do a skwala-dropper in case a phantom skwala eat might happen. It didn’t but I fished one side channel slot and pounded away on the dropper. In comparing notes, in the hour or so we fished one of us had landed 15, the other 17 before we moved on.
5. Use small nymphs.
Again, trout are sluggish and so too are the larger stonefly nymphs. Life slows down, so size down. #16 to 20 tungsten bead heads are your strongest ally.
6. Finish ‘em off with a large, shiny nymph.
How counter-intuitive to #5. There are no absolutes in fly fishing but it’s better to vacuum a run using the small stuff, then run a large stonefly or mayfly nymph to entice the stragglers that might have eaten the small stuff but popped off.
7. Flash ‘em
A little flash in dark conditions sometimes gets their attention, so look at some kind of bead, flashback, etc. Brass, copper, gold all work but copper beads work better on some tannic waters while gold does a better job on some deeper, faster, clear-water riffles. Pay attention to what kind of water and what light various bead color has success in.
8. Mornings can be extremely rough with fish glued to the bottom.
The odds of moving anything on nymphs is low, so too dries. Streamers are king mornings and evenings – often just off the first depth step of shallow riffles. Look at thigh depth and work to shoulder depth. Cast and swing, twitch, pause, lift and shoot… repeat the cause. Don’t be afraid to work from head to toe on the swing, then…
9. Dead Drift small streamers by working your way back up a run, like you’re nymphing.
Get your indicator out and hang a #10 tungsten cone streamer under it. Sometimes sluggish trout are waiting for the next dead thing to drift past. Better are things like chamois leeches and chamois worms – these too get sluggish and drift in the cold water. Insta-meal to catch your Insta-fish for the feed.
10. Sight-fishing is sometimes your best bet.
It’s funny I’d leave this to the end because this is the first thing we do, but North Americans have access issues precluding walking along some stream banks and sight-fishing simply isn’t common here – it’s often dismissed as a “New Zealand thing”. But a cloudy day on a bushy stream simply pops feeding fish in the low light ignitors. It’s not always the fish you see, rather, smudges, shapes, colors, and outlines, white fin tips, or just hints of movement. Every fly fisher should learn sight-fishing tactics as a tool. Depending on what water, what features, and what the population structure of the river you fish, sight-fishing and some form of tight line nymphing could be tough to choose from.
Interested in learning more about how to sight fish big trout? Check out the Jensen’s video series on how to fool even the wariest brown trout, here!
The Jensen’s are Alberta, Canada natives who migrate down to New Zealand every year on the hunt for big trout! Their videos of sight fishing to trout are second to none. Be sure to check them out on Instagram @jensenflyfishing.
We are extremely excited to be releasing some behind the scenes photos from Keith Rose-Innes’s latest trip to Siberia. Keith was searching for some of the largest Char in the world and these photos will bring you along on the incredible journey.
A trip to the remote Siberian mountains in search of giant arctic char, Keith Rose-Innes tells the story of how the Russian fly fishing explorer, Ilya Shebovich managed to research photos and intel from the nomadic reindeer herders to lead a trip into one of the wildest frontiers.
The anglers are challenged by extreme weather fluctuations, mosquitos, a lake that is more than 160 meters deep and a fish species that don’t give themselves up easily.
It’s a story of flying to various lakes, making hundreds of thousands of casts when finally the team turn to the insights from the local reindeer herder.
This confuses the matter further rather than adding clarity and it takes fourteen days of casting flies into the deep, shallows and surface of the crystal clear Siberian lakes before things finally start to pay off.
The mission of catching a really big arctic char leads on through night and day when finally at 3 am in the dying stages of the trip Matt Solomon manages to entice and land a monster.
Stay tuned as Keith will be releasing his trailer for this epic journey very soon. Make sure to give him a follow on Instagram @keithroseinnes to stay up to date.
One of our favorite short films of all time is YETI’s film, Cosmo. This film is what got us itching to catch a GT on the fly. This week’s Video of the Week covers some of the best GT fishing on the planet at the Alphonse Fishing Co. and showcases some other amazing species as well. If you haven’t seen this one yet, be sure to give it a watch!
You see it everywhere: plastic six pack rings littering the beach and the boat ramp or pictures online of six pack rings literally choking marine animals to death. It’s a disgusting image that we have all seen and, for the most part, contribute to. Thankfully, two companies are actively trying to improve the global situation of marine plastic pollution by addressing this one pollutant. Saltwater Brewery, of Delray, Florida, has been working with E6PR on developing biodegradable and edible six pack rings. This packaging is made out of barley and wheat which makes it so environmentally friendly. Earlier this year, Saltwater Breweries released the E6PR packaging on their Screamin’ Reels IPA in South Florida markets. Hopefully, more breweries utilize this innovative packaging, because plastic pollution is quickly becoming a worldwide crisis affecting all levels of marine life. Keep up the awesome work, Saltwater Breweries and E6PR!
For more information on this innovative idea, check out this nola.com article, E6PR’s website, and Saltwater Brewery.
Meet Yngve, a Norwegian adventure photographer who has fascinated us for several years now. Yngve was one of the pioneers of underwater fish photography, and as you will soon see in this interview he continues to set the standard for photos in that realm.
Flylords: Tell us a little about yourself? Yngve: My name is Yngve Ask, and I am 41 years old. My name is a super hard name to pronounce, so most just call me Bob. I live in Norway, own a farm with a small trout stream on it. I have a beautiful wife, two children, and an awesome dog! Over the last 20 years, I have traveled the world shooting photos and films – fishing has been an integral branch of my career. Flylords: How long have you been fly fishing for? Yngve: I stopped 9 years ago, and have only held a camera since. I get the same kick out of hooking a trophy fish as I do when I get the trophy shot! Flylord: How long have you been shooting photography for? Yngve: Got my first DSLR camera at the age of 14. and have never looked back since. Got my first Underwater housing 20 years ago when I started doing split shots, on film.Flylords: When did these two passions cross paths, what do you think they have in common? Yngve: From childhood, I loved fishing, hunting, and camping. But I was pretty much the only guy, so I ended up doing it on my own. Taking pictures was a way to tell the stories from the trips I shared with my friends. And that is how it all started. Flylords: What was the last fish you caught on a fly rod? What fly were you using? Yngve: Don’t remember, but I remember the last fish I photographed! Flylords: If you were trapped on an island in the middle of the Pacific ocean, and you had to bring one camera, one lens, and one fishing rod, what would your choices be? Yngve: Ohhh. Nikon D5 a 24-70 and I would easily change the rod for a UW housing and a wide-angle! Flylords: Some people have said you were one of the first photographers to master the half underwater fish shot, is this true? How has the technology in underwater housing changed since you first started? Yngve: Well I was inspired by a sailboat picture I saw more than 20 years ago. I had also seen some early attempts by a Danish photographer JP Poulsen – when I got my first Subal Housing for my Nikon F5 I began shooting underwater photography on film. I believe these were some of the first in the industry, if not the first! Flylords: Favorite all-time fish to target on a fly rod? Yngve: Atlantic Salmon and Brown Trout.Flylords: Tell us about your company Scanout, do you have any new projects you are working on? Yngve: Well we are working on the European side of some amazing brands, Like Leatherman, Led Lenser, Stanley, Crispi boots etc and some destination stuff.Flylords: Craziest fishing trip you have ever been on. What made it so wild? Yngve: Probably my first trip to Russia ice fishing. It involved burning down a sauna, vodka, stuck in a car in a blizzard on the tundra, a bar fight in Murmansk and great fishing.Flylords: Drink of Choice? Yngve: Water when working on location
Cola zero in an insulated Stanley cup working in the office
Craft beer when relaxingFlylords: Book Recommendation? Yngve: Harry Potter, because JK is the best storyteller of all time. Flylords: What is next in the world of Yngve YasK? Yngve: Next for us… tell more stories, take more and better pictures and have fun while doing it.
Flylords: Tell us about the first time you picked up a fly rod… Did this moment change your life?
My boots felt like concrete and I started to feel the water creep in under my zipped-up vest and jacket.
Flylords: If you had to pick one mentor for you in the fly fishing industry who would it be?
For more on the story, check out this Washington Post 
Flylords: How long have you been fly fishing for?
Flylord: How long have you been shooting photography for?
Flylords: When did these two passions cross paths, what do you think they have in common?
Flylords: What was the last fish you caught on a fly rod? What fly were you using?
Flylords: Some people have said you were one of the first photographers to master the half underwater fish shot, is this true? How has the technology in underwater housing changed since you first started?
Flylords: Favorite all-time fish to target on a fly rod?
Flylords: Tell us about your company Scanout, do you have any new projects you are working on?
Flylords: Craziest fishing trip you have ever been on. What made it so wild?
Flylords: Drink of Choice?
Flylords: Book Recommendation?
