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Thursday 4th July, 2013

Fly fishing has truly gone global now. It is spreading across the Asian nations like never before. From a way of catching fish for the table in medieval Europe and England, it spread to the Americas the 1800s with the English colonisation and it began developing as a country pursuit and a sport. The colonists began stocking the rivers with native fish familiar to them. Fly friendly species particularly the brown and rainbow trout were exported and imported to east and west and vice versa, so to speak. With the advent of transportation i.e. steamships of the 1800s, the trout went with the English further east to Australasia namely Australia, New Zealand, India, Ceylon, Malaya and possibly Burma.

Historically, many believe that fishing with a fly started by the Romans in Macedonia in the 2nd century although there was evidence of its existence a couple hundred years before known as fishing with a clothed hook. In Asia, the Japanese recorded the Tenkara brand of fishing since the 15th century the style close to the way the Macedonians did hundreds of years ago - the art of fishing with a pole, a fixed line and a dressed hook - the fly.

Parallel to this, the literature on fly fishing appeared from simple manuscripts during the medieval times to full blown instructional books and everything we know today. Among the ancient celebrated ones were those written by Dame Juliana Berner (The Treatyse on Fyssyhynge With an Angle - 1496) and Isaak Walton (The Compleat Angler - 1653). As it happened, this was also the time of colonisation of the Europeans over the Far East for the control of the spice trade - The Spanish conquered the Philippines and the Portugese captured Malacca - both in 1500s, English lorded over Indian sub-continent, Singapore and Malaya circa 1600s onwards just as the Dutch ruled Indonesia in 1600s. Somehow, the pitiful French colonists only got Indochina and gave it up to the Americans at a later date! My point is, these Europeans were kicking our arses centuries ago when they were already into fly fishing! How did they keep this beautiful sport away from us natives for centuries is beyond me.

But nothing is too late when comes to fly fishing. After the successful international fly fishing conclave in Malaysia last year, Indonesia will hold her first ever conclave - The International Fly Fishing Show 2013. Organised by the Jakarta Fly Fishing Club (JFFC) the event will be held in highlands of Lembang, Bandung from the 5th to 8th September this year. Central to the show will be the casting clinics by experts and the certification of the future Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF) casting instructors in the Asia Pacific. To the CCI / MCI candidates I shall wish them all the best. Getting certified is not about what it says. It is more than that to me. FFF is a well known brand and one has to carry the CCI batch as a professional not an elitist. A good instructor is a good listener and a lifelong learner himself. He is also ethical in his fishing. Even if a candidate does not pass the test first time, there is a lot of knowledge to be gained in the process. Those principles of casting we never thought before would be realized along the way and they will improve our real fishing world.

The interesting part about Indonesia is that it is a massive archipelago with 240 million people and over 17,000 islands that straddle along the ring of fire. There are thousands of uninhabited islands stretching from the Andaman Sea, India to the Arafura Sea north of Darwin, Australia. So both the fresh and saltwater fly fishing future is looking great once the infrastructure is developed. In this part of the world, the fly fishing is new to the masses but I believe it is taking off in a great style. Fly fishing will be big in Indonesia. So Pak Gunawan and JFFC, the show is yours!

Lovely Jubbly
Irhamy the Guv'nor, Kuala Lumpur


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