The number of visitors at the Fly Happening in Putte, Belgium, was a little down compared with two years earlier. This show, like many other shows, has the problem that the younger public is hard to persuade to visit the show. Pictures and text by Rudy van Duijnhoven […]
For the seventh time the Flemish Federation of Fly Fishers will organise its Fly Happening in the community center Klein Boom, Mechelbaan 604 in Putte (between Mechelen and Heist-op-den-Berg). The 2018 edition takes place on Saturday the 24th and Sunday the 25th of November, from 10 AM to 6 PM. There is a […]
On Saturday the 24th and Sunday the 25th of November the Flamish Federation of Fly Fishers organises their fifteenth Fly Happening this year. The Gemeentehallen, Mechelbaan 604 at Putte near Mechelen in Belgium, with some 10.000 square meters in space, will be the venue than for one of the largest fly-fishing shows of the […]
The season ending in Belgium calls for a last outing on the Lesse and Lomme with the guys from Rodtrip. Lesse & Lomme : www.lesselommefishing.com Instagram : www.instagram.com/rodtrip Facebook : www.facebook.com/rodtripfishing
Wholesale company Arca, which distributes products mainly to angling shops in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg, showed a great many new products in het showroom in Linden (Belgium) in early November. Among the new products are two new Trabucco Loomis & Franklin fly-rods. Both rods are four piece, build on IM7 carbon blanks and they […]
‘They did it’: the Belgium team (Fly Fishing Forever) that consists of Albert Bigaré, Tony Perin, Christian Bazan, Patrick De Schutter, Geert Janssens and Guido Vinck have qualified themselves for the Anglian Water Airflo International final on Rutland Water in early October. The Angling Water Airflo International is the largest fly-fishing reservoir competition within […]
From the 7th until the 13th of August the World Youth Fly Fishing Championship is fished in Slovenia. Belgium will have a team fishing this world championship for the first time too and the two Belgium champions Giani Devooght (reservoir) and Constantijn Coppye (river) are part of this. The two youngsters got to hear this […]
With around 500 visitors on the Sunday the total number of visitors to the Fly Happening was around 1200, much the same as two years ago. Most likely there will be another Fly Happening in two years time. Website: www.flyhappening.be.
Some 700 visitors passed the doors on the first day of the Fly Happening in Putte, a small town near Mechelen in Belgium. Combined with the 150 people working the show, this made for a nicely busy day at the show which is held every two years. […]
The Anglian Water Airflo International is one of the most prestigious fly-fishing reservoir competitions in the world. The AWAI 2016 took place at the 1300 hectare large Rutland Water in the UK, only 23 teams were allowed to fish the final after months of qualifications with hundreds of teams. A team consists of six […]
