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The Art of Fly Fishing

There’s a big article about Jazz & Fly Fishing in the latest number of Sztuka Lowienia, (The Art of Fly Fishing) a Polish fly fishing magazine. And more than so, they even included a CD with three tracks from our new album! Unfortunately all I know in Polish is Sztuka (Art) and Lowienia (Fishing) so… Read more »

J&FF Live in Oslo!

We´re playing in Oslo on saturday 28th. Venue: Herr Nilsen, at 16.00. Oslo dwellers: Don´t miss this rare opportunity to hear the band live – this is our first ever Oslo show! We´ll be showing some new videos before the concert, and since we´ve started shooting Jazz & Fly Fishing: Season Two, our cameras will… Read more »

Album out now!

The Jazz & Fly Fishing debut album Slow Walking Water has now been officially released! We have updated the Music section of J&FF homepage with samples of each track, and you can even purchase the album directly from the page with PayPal account or credit card. Now as the fishing season is about to begin, it’s… Read more »

UPDATE: Finland – Sweden, 6-1

UPDATE (by tapani): Yes!!!!! Finland wins hockey world championships and most importantly humiliates sweden with a score to remember for a long time: 6-1!!!!! Fredrik before the game: I´m sorry Joona, but this is the result: 2-5!! Sweden will win and Finland will loose. Forgive me for saying that! In twenty minutes Sweden will win… Read more »

Here Is Trout!

With more than a little help from Norwegian fly fishing legends Lars Nilssen and Lars Lenth, who run the excellent flyfishing blog larsoglars.no, I found trout! Smøla is the place. It is a totally flat and stunningly beautiful island on Norway´s western coast. The island has lots and lots of small watersystems, and most of… Read more »

Loving and living jazz & fly fishing

Vince Maggio, Professor of Jazz at University of Miami’s Frost Music school, describes his love for both Jazz music and fly fishing and how they are interrelated. Nice playing and fly tying!  

Article in Fluefiske 2011

The Norwegian magazine Fluefiske 2011 comes out once a year. It´s a real high quality publication, with interesting articles written by interesting people. This year, there´s an article written by none other than J&FF´s Fredrik Hamrå! Now that´s interesting! For those of you who aren´t able to read Norwegian, there are two alternatives: 1. Learn… Read more »

Bluegrass & Fly Fishing

If you think jazz and fly fishing is a strange combination (that you dig for some reason), you should see this: The Fiddle and Creel, a blog about bluegrass and fly fishing! Described with their own words: Life at the intersection of Bluegrass and Fly Fishing.

The Monkey Wrench

Early in the morning, while the other guys were fast asleep, I snuck out of the tipi. In the arctic mountain lake just outside our tipi, there was a huge mayfly hatch going, and a large brown trout was having an early morning feast. It took my fly on the very first cast, and I… Read more »