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Inspired

Inspired

Gallery / Inspired /

Paul Arden | 2016. Jul. 5. 08:36

It was an amaizing Europe trip for us.... Is time for some HOT weather....:)

Rainbow in Grafham

another great lady angler

They are ready to Gooooooooo!

Halloween in Croatia

Happy Halloween from Hungary

Ashly's creativity

Prelog, Croatia

Weekend with Ivica and Snjeska

Chub in Bednja river- Croatia

Flyfishing lady - Snjeska

Vegetarian barbecue (cheese, mushroom, pepper and zucchini)

Croatia meets Hungary meets Malaysia meets Jersey !

What a smile...;)

What is your expression when you hook a fish bigger than you expected.

A day with Djelko

It was a good day in Pliva

What can you tell from that smile?

Nymphing master

You start to wonder who is the girl in brown.

Paul and Stanko

Catching up with Djordje and Aleksandar

Robin,Aleksandar, Djelko, Djordje and Paul

Aleksandar, Djelko, Djordje and Paul

Nice grayling in Pliva river

Its happening....

Dancing king...

Distance casting in Ribnik? You must be right!

Another graying for Paul

Grayling for the lady..:)

Opsss... flying trout

Velibor look sexy in Sexyloops cap...;)

We are ready for Ribnik

Ice water for breakfast...)

Bye Thomas, till we meet again

Lunch by the river.

Looking for hot spot

Another graying in Pliva, taking on nymp

The fish is quite spooky. Crawling is the best way to be invisible.

Ashly is very happy to see a cow!

Dry or nymph....

Smallest trout in Pliva river...

Thomas in Bosnia

Our friendly host Pedja and his wife.

Another great night in Latohegy

After a few palinka

Father and son moment

Nikola, Velibor and Thomas in Hungary. It's fishing time.

Welcome to Hungary

Campfire to welcome Thomas' arrival

Evening in Drava

Ashly cleaning the casting field and Paul god knows what is he doing !

Sleep and sound

Tom is cleaning himself...

Egg with sambal... Malaysian cuisine

Dusk in Latohegy

Morning view from Latohegy

Paul is looking for Tom... I think !

Peter will not happy if he know this.

Ashly to do in the evening!

Guess what! Paul went for a meeting in Budapest!

Paul's Asp in Drava

Ashly's Asp in Drava

Its been awhile the Kayak been to the water!

We had great time with Bi Bi and Danny. Bye till we meet again.

Our Kiwi friends drop by to say hello. They cycle around Europe

friends, beer, wine and fishhhhhhh

A day baby sitting little Kolos

Peter the Pig Hunter

The green beast in Hungary

Chinese cooking for grass carp

Peter's Grass Carp

Grass Carp in the net

Ashly is always busy

Tom the cat is enjoying dusk in Latohegy

Ashly is setting up her own leader

Ashly and her tangle

Wild pig at the Drava

Bergotong Royong ...:)

Sexyloops school in Italy with Stefano,Lucas and Valerio

Sexyloops school in Switzerland

Sexyloops school in Italy

Lucas in action

Stefano in action

Stefano,Valerio and Paul

Caster should dance like balerina

Tackle shop in Milan

Explaining on loop formation

Double hauling explanation by Christopher Rownes

can you hit the cap?

Paul only speak English and Hungarian. Thanks Chris for helping us.

fly presentation

dont lock your wrist

Uwe and his student...)

Chub in Wutach Germany

Barbel in Wutach Germany

Ashly fishing in Germany

Is about to happen now...ZROOOOOOM

Bosnia, Jersey and Swiss competition caster meet in Fischen Fly show

Paul and Nikola

Fly Show in Switzerland

Demonstration and explanation by Paul Arden

Paul demonstrating in Fischen Fly show 2016

Paul explaining on how Sexyloops instructor rod in action

During the fly show

Fischen fly show

Fly Tying by Jonas Put

Fly tying by Jonas Put

Fly tying by Andreas

Fly tying by Daniela

Thorsten from Loop

Bosnia Fly Casting team trying Sexyloops rod

Paul supporting Fischen fly show in Switzerland

Fischen fly shop

A town call Ventspils in Latvia

Not sure what it says

Is huge inside!

Let's check it out.

Double haul technique for Mika The Legand

Bunker in Latvia!

Bunker in Latvia!

Nice pose Paul!

Sunset in Latvia

One evening in Baltic Sea.

This is Ashly preparation for picture taken.

Ashly always make sure the laundry is clean!

Paul's prayer answered!

An hour of praying

Breakdown in Latvia. Paul pray for miracle!

The green beast need another attension!

One of our camp site in latvia

One of our iron source in Latvia. They are everywhere

This is not a pole Ashly!

yummmmm... dinner is ready

Barbecue for dinner

Ashly said she rather take a bus!

All fixed now. The green beast is ready to go!

Paul and his green beast!

Ashly will never understand this!

Nasi Lemak in Latvia

Snoring solution anyone?

Camp fire with the german

Huge camp fire place

Malaysian cuisine in making..:)

Fisherman village

fisherman village

Ashly playground

Thank you to Sweedish team!

In trend now! Waders to the bar

Nice trout in River X Sweden

rainbow in Arjeplog

Evening light in Arjeplog

River crossing in Arjelop with Bernt and Magnus.

stefan on strike

Stefan trout in River X

Spending some time with Staffan from Loop

With Joakim and Roger

Anna Hedman in action

When competition caster meet each other...

What is your favourite colour rod handle.

One of our Journey

One of our amp site in Estonia

Conquering another river.

Fishing with proto 7634

River X in Estonia

River X Estonia

Bye Ross, see you agian

Ashly creativity. Mushroom man and Sexyloops rod

After a couple Saku.

Ashly first competition

Everyone is a champion

Lasse in action

Team GB competing in #5 distance

12 years old champion.jpg

Paul in accuracy

No 17 from Jersey is warming up

Paul competing in #5 distance

Salmon distance

Last munite enrolment for Salmon distance

Ross in #5 distance

No number no compete! Thanks Lasse

Salmon distance

Ross battling in accuracy

Ross in his accuracy! Go Jersey

Sakari from Finland

Nose picking ...lol

Some of the Russian team

Opening ceremony

Speech from Alan

Guys warming up

guys warming up.jpg

Here we go....... Fly Casting World Championship 2016

Solution for leaking waders

River X in Finland

fishing with Mika and Satu

Paul said: I want to use your skin for fly tying

Tar bread! Surprisingly it was GOOD!

hmnnn...nice coffee

Satu and reindeer

time to warm ourself

ashly and reindeer

SOS in Russia boarder

Landed at the camp

What happen if dron fallen next to the chopper?

Cold at nights, hence the bank robber look.

7lb brown on a size14 sedge - quite a battle out into the backing for a long time.

Ashly crossing the Varzina at the rope

Night time rises to small caddis

Chuan and Tim with camp manager Alex

Ashly caught some decent fish on her own

Although I helped her hook this one!

24 hours day light...)

Flytying and Russian vodka

4KG trout at night (it was dark when I hooked it!)

Heading to the Aquarium

It didn't get much darker than this unless there were clouds in the sky

6 days fishing to go...

Some storms came through during the day when I was sleeping

Time to throw some distance wearing a headnet

Tim at the Aquarium

Ashly discovers a hole in her waders

Tim into a fish

Chuan into a fish

Morning has broken (

Chuan, Tim and Paul. Snakehead specialists..

Heading back for beer and breakfast

Campfire cooking in Russia

Moonscape (I love this river)

Ashly boulder hopping

Ash takes a brown on a streamer in the evening - she loose a very big fish on this river, maybe 8lbs or more

Waiting for the chopper

Open concept toilet..)

Beards are good against mosquitoes (in fact they weren't too bad anyway)

Ashly nets her own fish

Paul, Alex and his son Max discussing which pool should we go

Hasn't quite learned to hold them yet, but a great moment on the last night

We tried a different run on the last evening. Only small fish for me.

One for Tim. Tim had the biggest trout at 9lbs. Tim and I both had 20 fish for the week. Less than expected but the days were bright and the nights very short.

Back at camp with Vodka, Beer, Cigars and pyjamas!

This is how Paul arrange his luggage

Varzina River 2016. One Malaysian, one Singaporean, two Aussies, three Russians and me.

Second trip, second carp!

Ashly catches a trout at Val de Mar on a dry!

A fantastic perch imitation (that catches bigger perch - and browns). I must tie some.

The fly moves better that the fish!

Bob and Ashly at Queen's Reservoir

Ashly practising accuracy at the campground

Throwing distance (way past the rings!)

Corbier, with Ashly fishing off the rocks for Imaginary Sea Bass

Ross, Paul and Bob. The three musketeers.

Waves at Corbier lighthouse

Rockpool Fly Fishing (Bob's speciality)

Goby on Czech Nymph

Small trout on a dry fly at Val de Mar

Another trout for the beard

Bass fishing (the fish were none too big!)

Morning light - one of the few days to wasn't raining...

Ashly fishing for mullet (they didn't show up!)

This carp was so big it broke the net!

And here it is!

Rod testing... the Sexyloops HT won of course :)

Two days of casting training for the JFAA

Casting with Marcus

Still casting with Marcus!

Tying a bimini twist (I knew you were curious!)

Believe it or not, this is my father. We haven't seen each other in quite a while!

Teaching the Double Haul

Ashly finally gets a pot of mussels on the last day.

Pike in Coggeshall

Snake head shot!

Perfectionist in Coggeshall

Rod rack by Paul Arden

Very complicated job

....... Coggeshall............

paper, rock, scissors..who will climb the ladder?

Coggeshall shootout

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