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Patriot flies

I’m from Sweden, the small country far far away up north. Our neighbors are Finland and Norway. If I go to Norway, it is possible to buy (almost anywhere) “the book about stupid Swedes”. If Norwegians go here to Sweden they can buy the same book but with the very different name “the book about… Read more »

Rapala

I’ve been fishing as long as I can remember. I didn’t always used to fish with a fly though. Being finnish, I grew up with Rapala, probably the single most effective fishing lure there is. They still catch good fish.

JFF at Rise Film Festival

Can there be anything better that watching high quality fly fishing films on a big movie theater canvas? The problem is the theaters never show fly fishing films. That is until now, when RISE Fly Fishing Film festival sweeps across the globe with fly fishing film events. Soon they are coming to Europe, visiting London,… Read more »

Miles and More

To be quite honest, I´ve never liked the autumn. Sure, it´s pretty and everything, but there´s something really gloomy about it. Spring is like 6 months away. Well, there´s not much we can do about that. However, autumn is a very good time to read books. This is what I´ve been reading lately: Miles Davis… Read more »

Advanced Drum Tricks in Slow Motion

Fly Fishing makes your stick control perfect in all areas of life as you can see on this video. Fredrik Hamrå, the masterful drummer of Jazz and Fly Fishing controls the advanced drum rolls and stick-tricks with total precision and playful ease. Everything is captured with a special high speed camera.

JFF Flying News

Yep, from now on we’ll start up a small news magazine every month. The name of the magazine is Jff Flying News. Jff Flying News or “JFFFN” will be posted the 14th day of the month – every month – forever. It will take up important stuff but also crap information. You decide what’s important… Read more »

The Curse

Fly fishing can really make you superstitious. While Tapani, Joona and I had One Magical Day of flyfishing, Fredrik couldn´t catch anything, and got really frustrated. And that´s not normal. Fredrik is a highly skilled flyfisherman, and more often than not, he´s the one who catches the big one. So there was definitely some strange… Read more »

Days of creative action

Wow – the three days we just spent recording were spectacular. We met in Gothenburg to record music for our fishing videos. We had had some mail correspondance where we decided what to play. No sheets – just moods: minimalistic stuff, drum grooves, bass grooves, dum and bass grooves, free jazz, old school jazz, lapland… Read more »

Meeting in Sweden

It is time for our first film music-session. It will take place in Gothenburg tomorrow. Maybe there will be time to do some fishing also, lets see…  We really need to record more background music to our short movies. We’re going to play lots of stuff, probably a lot af very weird sounds and grooves. Anyone who… Read more »

Cod Kiss Goodnight

Joona and Håvard had no idea what kind of kiss goodnight they were going to get on this beautiful July night in northern Norway when Fredrik and I stayed up for couple of casts. Music: All Lights On by Joona Toivanen / Jazz & Fly Fishing