In the night from Monday the 31st of July to Tuesday the 1st of August the fly-fishing world, especially in the south of Germany, lost one of its big promoters. Siegfried “Sigi” Urchs was in the mid seventies of age.

He came to Bavaria in 1958 and started there with other methods of fishing. Two friends made him make a start in fly-fishing, “the most beautiful way of fishing with the least influence on nature”. He learned how to tie flies and has since than shown his skills at many fly-fishing shows like the Experience the World of Fly Fishing.

Siegfried “Sigi” Urchs started a meeting point for fly-fishers in Fürstenfeldbruck where fly-fishers, nature lovers and sport-fishermen from close and far gathered for exchanging experiences and listening to presentations that Sigi had organised. A website was set up for this reason too, but it is no longer active.

This year Sigi was one of the judges in the Open German Fly Tying Championship, the pictures were taken when he was busy judging the many flies that were send in, together with Nadica and Igor Stancev plus Rudy van Duijnhoven.

The funeral will be held on Friday the 4th of August at 8.30 am at the Waldfriedhof, Waldfriedhofsstrasse 1, 82256 Fürstenfeldbruck near Munich.