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El
próximo 27 de Septiembre en el Aula del Río
de Pineda de La Sierra de Burgos, tendrá lugar la
presentación en España de la European Fly
Fishing Asociación. La jornada comienza a las 10
de la mañana con entrada libre y a ella están
invitados todos los aficionados a la pesca con mosca
La
presentación del evento correrá a cargo de
los miembros de EFFA en España, Roberto Caldeiro
Martínez y Manuel Iglesias Angulo.
Los
exámenes de instructor, y que detallamos más
abajo, serán el principal tema de la jornada. Durante
aproximadamente dos horas se analizará cada uno de
los ejercicios del examen dándose las claves técnicas
para conseguir las distancia, minimizar los errores más
comunes y todas las claves técnicas que permitan
a los aspirantes preparar se un programa de entrenamientos
para realizar los primeros exámenes en nuestro país.
Gracias
a las magníficas instalaciones con las que contamos,
los ejercicios en los que sea necesario, se realizarán
sobre una lámina de agua.
Detalle
de los exámenes de para Instructor EFFA:
http://www.effa.info/english/certification/test_basic_engl.htm
Buscando una titulación (léase una satisfacción):
http://www.conmosca.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2178&mode=&order=0&thold=0
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| EFFA
at the Nordic Hunting and Fishing Festival in Elverum (NOR) |
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First
Russian instructors certified!
B.
d. Bruin, W. Fabisch
, Joakim Ericsson SWE, Igor Tyapkin RUS, Mikhail Zenkov
RUS, Alexander Chernysh RUS, Tore L. Rydgren NOR and examiner
S. Fuchs
Not
less than ten candidates attended the EFFA Basic flycasting
instructor exams on 9 August in Elverum(Nor). The exam took
place at the same location as last year. The Nordic Fishing
and Hunting Fair next to the fishing and hunting museum
who was also the organizer of the show was the perfect place
to meet for Scandinavians. The examiners Sepp Fuchs, Bas
de Bruin and Wolfgang Fabisch were the examiners team at
site. It was very tough this year because the wether was
terrible. The heavy rain was a bit of a handicap but the
people from the North seem to be quite used to it. At the
end the examiners could welcome five new EFFA instructors
in our team: Tore L. Rydgren NOR, Joakim Ericsson SWE, Alexander
Chernysh RUS, Igor Tyapkin RUS und Mikhail Zenkov RUS. Alexander,
Igor and Mikhail were the first Russians ever who passed
world's most difficult fly casting instructor exam, so they
were more than happy about that and shared some Vodka with
the new friends. We are very happy about all our new instructors
and want to thank the Norwegians for their hospitality.
We will be back.
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| The
Dutch Fly Fair at Fort Altena at Werkendam(NL) May 2008 |
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The
Dutch Fly Fair is back
On
Saturday the 24 th and Sunday the 25 th a new Fly Fair was
held at a very special location: Fort Altena at Werkendam.
This old fortress dates back to 1840-1850 and was part of
the Dutch ´waterlinie´ that was created to defend
the heart of Holland . The fortress and the walls that belong
to it have been rebuild recently. In the days up to the
fair a lot of work and money was put into creating a Fly
Fair atmosphere on the fortress. On the Friday we saw a
handful of EFFA instructors (Bas, Sepp, Cees and Richard,
with the help of well known fly tier Piet Weeda) busy with
putting up the casting pool and the demonstration pontoon.
Because
there would be a full program on the Saturday, it was decided
to start early (9.00 hours) with the EFFA exam. Four candidates
had put their names down for this, including two from Russia
. Jupp Verstraten , Bas de Bruin and Sepp Fuchs were in
charge of this exam and they were helped by Richard Verbeek
. The casting pool was set up in an east to west direction.
The increasing wind from the east, up to a wind force 5,
followed these directions but made things far from easy.
After some test casting and the arrival of the translator
for the Russian participants, it was possible to start at
9.00 h with the exam. For most participants the wind turned
out to be a major opponent, this was clear to see in the
back casts whereby the line did not stretch out all the
way to the back.
Excellent
result
By
the end of the morning it became clear that Waldo Kranenburg
had learned a lot from the few mistakes he had made at the
earlier exam in Schimmert. Unfortunately the other candidates
failed on more than one cast. I am glad to say they will
not surrender and will try again next year. Alexandr, Mihail
and Folkert were of course saddened by the fact that they
failed this test, but I am sure we will welcome them as
EFFA instructors in the future. After a short break, we
went to the theoretical and teaching part of the exam. Waldo
past these parts successfully too and we could congratulate
him with the result and welcome him as a new certified EFFA
instructor. By the end of the day the certificate and badge
were handed over to him officially on the platform in front
of the main building of the fortress. Hereby we congratulate
Waldo again with the excellent result of his exam.
The
Dutch EFFA instructors have played a major part in putting
EFFA more clearly on the map during this Fly Fair. During
both days demonstrations as well as workshops were held.
For this fair a special flyer was put together, Cees van
Noord had a major part in this, and this flyer was well
received by the public. A special feature was the demonstration
on the Sunday by two soon to be instructors (Youri Arens,
9 years, and Bas ter Laak, 15 years). Under the guidance
of Bas de Bruin they showed what it takes to receive the
casting certificate of the VNV (Dutch Association of Fly
Fishers).
Bas
de Bruin
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| Jupp Verstraten, Waldo
Kranenburg(new EFFA instructor), Bas de Bruin and Sepp
Fuchs |
Masters Sepp Fuchs and Bas de Bruin
teaching yound students |
Bas de Bruin and Sepp Fuchs demonstrating
the casting with double handed fly rods |
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| EFFA
Fly Fishing Meeting and exams at the River Ribnik in Bosnia
2008 |
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Big party on the Ribnik river
On
9-11 May 2008, the EFFA Fly Fishing Meeting took
place at Ribnik River in Bosnia . Our Bosnian friends really
did a great job! They were supported by five warm and sunny
days. What LGT Company was doing to make the spoiled European
fly fishermen have a nice time in Bosnia , was incredible!
The lodges are one of the best we can find in our tours.
The river Ribnik, with the water not at maximum condition,
reserved anyway big fishes and a lot of fun. It's really
a beautiful river, a perfect answer to Slovenian Unec. Many
mayflies had filled the air because of the warm weekend.
The big stoneflies landed with rumour on the water, too.
The exam's location was a huge meadow, perfect cut and decored
with the EFFA tents and banners. On Saturday, an important
workshop took place, with casting and tying demos. During
the dinner, Alex presented the “ EFFA Guide Programme”,
which is almost finished. Sunday, finally the certification
took place under a nice sun and a light wind. The seven
candidates were well prepared but very some were quite nervous.
At
the end two very nice new friends passed: the Spanish Roberto
Caldeiro and Manuel Iglesias. Keen salt water fishermen,
they live at the Atlantic coast, where they often go fishing
big tunas. Well-done and welcome!! Congratulations to the
new instructors with the hope to see EFFA growing in Spain
. Finally I cannot remark the big work of Alex and Ivan,
who have promised a big surprise for the next year, too.
Valerio
Santagostino
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| Sepp Fuchs, Claudio Balassone,
Roberto Caldeiro(new instructor), Wolfgang Fabisch and
Günter Feuerstein in the back as well as the new
instructor Manuel Iglesias and Valerio Santagostino
in the front. |
Claudio Balassone demonstrating TLT
technique in front of a big crowd of visitors. Claudio
is a master of this technique and knows well how to
explain this Italian dry fly fishing technique. |
Some of our instructors with our dear
friend and fly tier Marc Petitjean at one of the mighty
Pliva springs. The springs supplied Pliva during our
stay with with 50 m3 of fresh ground water per second! |
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| EFFA
Meeting and exams at the River Ribnik in Bosnia 2007 |
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meeting in Bosnia could not have been any better and the
organizers especially Mr. Talic and Mr. Vukovic as well
as our instructors Ivan Dragoijlovic and Alex Ivanovic hereby
get a big thanks from all of us. We stayed right at the
river bank of one of the most wonderful spring creeks in
Europe, the River Ribnik, with many other fly fishing possibilities
nearby. However there was not much need to move somewhere
else, the river was just too beautiful and the fishing for
big browns and grayling was fabulous. Nevertheless we got
to know that the fish there can also be quite tricky. So
even for the hard core fly fishers among us the fishing
was interesting enough. In the evenings we tasted the excellent
local food, the tasty Bosnian vines and the local beer which
was a little bit stronger(12,5% alcohol) than some of us
were used, too. Besides that we enjoyed the talks with our
new Bosnian friends who share our passion. The Bosnian guides
and fly fishers do not only know how to fish their streams
but also like to celebrate. It was great fun.
The
exam and the fly casting demonstrations took place a little
bit upstream from the lodge on a big field at the banks
of the Ribnik where a large flycasting pool was set up.
As we all know the EFFA instructor exam it the only exam
adapted to the high European fly casting level and therefor
much more difficult than any other instructor exam. So at
the end there was only one candidate left who received the
most sought-after instructor certificate. Patrik Wettergren
from Sweden delivered a superb exam and is about to strengthen
the EFFA team in Sweden now. Congratulations Patrik!
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| Ivan
Dragojlovic(organizer), Günter Feuerstein, examiner,
our new instructor Patrik Wettergren, Claudio Balassone,
examiner and Alex Ivanovic(organizer) |
Claudio Balassone
demonstrating the crowd the Italian TLT technique |
fun & friendship
are the most important factors in fly fishing |
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| Dutch
EFFA Meeting in Schimmert(NL) |
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The
Dutch meeting in Schimmert ( Netherlands ) was a great success.
In a beautiful surrounding of south Limburg we held this
time our yearly meeting in the weekend from the 3 th till
the 5 th of May. A special thanks from all of us to William
van der Vorst and his team for the organisation. Most of
us stayed at the Campsite Marevelt in Schimmert, this campsite
has very good accommodation and a great lawn where William
and his team build-up a large flycasting pool. The weather
was great, too, so it couldn't be better.
Saturday
4 th May was set up for our instructor exam. We had the
maximum of 8 candidates but so as we know the EFFA instructor
exam is not so easy. It's the most difficult instructor
programme but if you manage this level you can be proud
to be an EFFA flycasting instructor. At the end of this
long day two candidates received the instructor certificates.
Ruben Groenendijk and Cees van Noord did the exam very well
and therefore our congratulations to them. This made the
Dutch EFFA team grow to 17(!) instructors and that is great
for such a small country.
After
this hard long day we went to the lodge for some drinks
and a great buffet. Off course we held a little meeting
after the buffet with our new instructors and had a nice
brainstorm session about the future of us and this exam
day. There is always room for improvement and maybe some
of our spoken suggestions can be found in the future on
our EFFA site.
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weekend was not only a weekend for the instructors
but we invited everyone who was interested in fly-fishing
and of course fly-casting, especially on Sunday. We
offered free workshops and fly-casting demonstrations
the whole day long.
Before
we started with the workshop there was always a little
casting demo for about 10-15 minutes. After that everyone
was invited to join the instructors with the workshops
for about another 30 minutes. We held workshops for
the basic-cast, analyzing the double-haul, tips and
tricks, distance casting, casting with double-handed
rods, casting with shooting-heads and so on.
Every
instructor was very busy that day. We did not only
teach the visitors a lot we but we learned also from
each other. And that is the true spirit!
The
main aim of this weekend was to enjoy the day with
our friends, with other instructors, the public and
this great sport. We are looking forward to the next
Dutch weekend in 2008.
Bas
de Bruin, May 2007
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The
examiners Jupp Verstraten and Bas de Bruin, the
new EFFA
flycasting
instructors Ruben Groenendijk and Cees van Noord
and
examiner Sepp Fuchs
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| Pescare
2007 |
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The
Pescare 2007 in Vincenza(I) was a great show with an enormous
amount of visitors. EFFA was also present there with a stand
and the two Master instructors Valerio Santagostino and
Günter Feuerstein made sure that important messages
were spread among the fly fishers in Italy:
EFFA
will soon open its doors for all fly fishers not only for
fly casting instructors and in the future all fields of
fly fishing will be covered. The fist step was easily visible
when the visitors were lining up for subscribing for the
River Folla Alert(see
conservation). The fly fishers were happy to see that
a Eurpean fly fishing organisation now takes care about
the environment on an international basis.
There
were also two candidates trying to pass the EFFA instructor
exam. At the end one of them, the Italian Michele
Malagugini was happy to receive the EFFA certificate
and patch. Flycasting demonstrations for single hand and
double handed rods performed by Günter Feuerstein and
translated by EFFA instructor Angelo Piller completed EFFAs
representation at the show. It was a really great event
and EFFA thanks all the visitors for the good communication.
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