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The world champion in Spey Distance Casting and multiple medal winner Tellis Katsogiannos will visit the EWF for the first time on 5 and 6 April 2025!

As rod and line developer for Guideline you will meet him at the Guideline stand or at the casting pool, where he will show a casting demo on both days.

We warmly welcome him!

    

 

Today, 5 December, is the International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development, IVD!

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Aihan Sali-Oglu, who has been actively supporting us at the EWF for years with the coordination and organisation of the charity stands, be it the Ambulance Childrens Hospice Munich and, after 10 years, now Glücksmomente e.V., and is always the main contact person for the EWF at these stands for two days! Many thanks for that!

   

 

 

The official poster and flyers for the 20th anniversary of the EWF have been finalised!

We look forward to your visit on 5 and 6 April 2025!

We would like to thank Jonas Schnürch for the wonderful, atmospheric picture!

 

Our friends, Caroline Emmet and Chris Reeves, are coming from the UK to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the EWF on 5 and 6 April 2025!

 

 
Not only are they great fly tyers, they are also always fun and humorous. If you have any questions about fly tying, go ahead, because as representatives and members of The Fly Dressers' Guild (with over 900 members) they always invite interested beginners and advanced tyers to support them with tips and techniques. You are cordially invited to visit them at their tying benches and let them show you special fly patterns or try your hand at one of their tying vices.

 

Meet Christof Menz from Austria at the EWF on 5 and 6 April 2025 !

 
Christof Menz has also been with the EWF from the very beginning. We are particularly pleased that he is doing casting demos for our 20th anniversary. At the first EWF in 2006, he did his demos on a foil that was simply laid out on the grass. And now, 20 years later, Christof Menz is of course a must! Meet him at the Patagonia stand on the upper floor of the Tenne or at his demos at the casting pool.

 

18th Open German Fly Tying Championship

Next year the German Open Fly Tying Championship will take place for the 18th time, whereby the Klinkhåmer Special by Hans van Klinken needs to be tied in the dry fly category. Good luck! Read more ...

 

Many thanks to Amanda Hoffner for this wonderful review of the 19th EWF - a little appetiser for the upcoming 20th EWF, which we are currently working towards at full speed!

 

Our Austrian friends must be there too! Meet Franz-Xaver Ortner and Heinz Zöldi on the fly tying stage on 5 and 6 April 2025 at the EWF!

 

 
Franz-Xaver is a fly tyer from the very beginning, he tied at the first EWF in 2006 and will now also celebrate the 20th anniversary of the EWF with its diverse programmes, exhibitors and participants with us. We are very much looking forward to his coming, his Austrian humour and the great fly patterns.
 
Heinz Zöldi has already tied his special fly patterns on stage several times, is always good for a laugh and will be celebrating 20 years of EWF with us. He is not only a great fly tyer, but also a wonderful colleague and always ready to talk about the most beautiful hobby in the world.

 

Rod designer and builder Tomo Ijuin from Japan will be visiting the EWF for the first time on 5 and 6 April 2025

 
Tomo Ljuin is travelling from Japan to present his wonderful glass rods. You can find Tomo at the Yamame Flyrods stand or at the casting pool, where he will show us an exciting and very interesting casting demo on both EWF days. We will introduce Tomo with his fly fishing profile shortly.
 

 

 

Stuart Hardy with his impressive Kelson exhibition at the 20th EWF on 5 and 6 April 2025

 
On the occasion of our anniversary, we will once again present a very special exhibition: Stuart Hardy from the United Kingdom will present his much larger George Mortimer Kelson collection of antique fly tying equipment, including Kelson's personal tools and materials described in his book ‘The Salmon Fly’. This exhibition will be the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind, travelling back in time to the early 19th century. It will also be the first time in over 10 years that his unique collection has been on display outside the UK.

   

 

After 10 years he will come back to the EWF on 5 and 6 April 2025 and present his new book ‘The Klink’ - Hans van Klinken from the Netherlands!
We are looking forward to his visit for our 20th anniversary!!

Read more about Hans van Klinken ...

 

 

 

After a short break, we have now started preparations for the 20th EWF, our anniversary event. Today we start with a short review of the 19th EWF.

 

Enjoy viewing the EWF photo galleries 2024!

 

We mourn the loss of Theo (Todor) Atanassov!

On 13 and 14 April 2024, Theo Atanassov visited the 19th EWF for two days despite his serious illness and was thus able to fulfil a heartfelt wish. Accompanied by his closest friends, he visited the EWF exhibitors, sat with all his long-time friends and was in the foyer of the Tenne, where he was actually still tying flies.

Now Theo Atanassov has closed his eyes forever on 4 July 2024 and the fly fishing world has lost a great fly fisherman and friend. For over five decades, he fished with enthusiasm all over the world, taught himself how to cast and tie, tied his fly artworks to absolute perfection and gave casting courses.

As a trained ship mechanic and later a professional musician, he had special fine motor skills that he knew how to use perfectly for his fly tying and rod making. He was a real tinkerer and always found a solution to produce his fly patterns and fly rods, various accessories and tying equipment etc. to a high quality.

After leaving Bulgaria in 1975, he chose Berlin as his new home, worked there as a car mechanic until his retirement and intensively pursued his passion for fly fishing in his free time.

Theo Atanassov attended many fly fishing fairs, fly fishing meetings and regulars' tables in Germany and abroad and was always happy to socialise with his fly fishing friends. Among other things, articles on his fly patterns were also published in various fly fishing magazines.
He was often invited to Bulgarian fly fishing meetings as a guest of honour and always enjoyed the Bulgarian fly fishing community.

Theo Atanassov launched the EWF fly tying programme for children and young people in 2007 and has coordinated it with great dedication every year since then. Back then, he started the fly tying programme with three children and was able to introduce up to 130 children to the passion and art of fly tying at times in the years that followed, before retiring from the children's programme completely in 2019. He was also a member of the jury at the Open German Fly Tying Championships four times. Theo was an integral part of the EWF team until the end.

Theo Atanassov will live on in the hearts of his fly fishing friends and we will all remember his anecdotes and stories, which he loved to tell in convivial company. We will miss you!

EWF Images in chronology from 2007 to 2024

 

                                                 

 

 

Important appeal for the 19th EWF!!


The company Renomed - Scissors manufacture, asks all persons who bought Renomed products at the stand in the Stadtsaal at the EWF to get in touch with us: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or by phone +48-61-8685533

You are also welcome to contact us directly and we will pass on the contact details.

Thank you!

Please note: This is not a recall!

 

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Wild Salmon Without Borders – energising international collaboration for the restoration of wild Atlantic salmon.

 

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The ‘Wild Salmon Without Borders’ event, part of this year's 19th International Experience the World of Fly Fishing (EWF) fly fishing show in Germany, took place over the weekend of April 13th and 14th and successfully brought together key individuals and organisations from across Europe to motivate a renewed focus on international collaboration for wild Atlantic salmon restoration. The Atlantic Salmon Trust, together with EWF show organisers, worked together to create and host the event. Expert speakers from all across Europe were brought together, including representatives from the Atlantic Salmon Trust, Missing Salmon Alliance, North Atlantic Salmon Fund (NASF), Norske Lakseelver, World Fish Migration Foundation, Fario e.V., Wanderfische ohne Grenzen e.V., Danmarks Centre For Vildlaks, and Patagonia.

This lineup of speakers ensured that wild Atlantic salmon representation came from a range of countries, including Iceland, Norway, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark, France, and Ireland, with speakers highlighting a variety of issues affecting wild Atlantic salmon. These included the dangers and risks posed by open net pen salmon farming, red skin disease, and barriers to migration. However the event sought not to dwell on the many problems facing wild Atlantic salmon, but to create a platform to offer positive solutions with which we can move forward. This included sharing habitat restoration case studies, successful barrier removal campaigns, the success story of the restoration of the River Skjern in Denmark, as well as how to successfully raise public awareness against unsustainable open pen salmon farming practices.

Several short films were shown at the event, aiming to highlight the cultural importance of wild Atlantic salmon. These included the French animated film ‘Salmo’ by Paul Pajot, British animated film ‘Wild Summon’ by Karni Arieli and Saul Freed which was nominated for a BAFTA and shortlisted for an Oscar, and Patagonia’s latest film ‘Laxaþjóð | A Salmon Nation’ which tells the story of growing opposition to open pen salmon farming in Iceland.

Through the newly forged international links and relationships between individuals and organisations across Europe, initial collaborations have already been planned. The aim of the symposium to promote greater cross-border co-operation and action for the recovery and restoration of wild Atlantic salmon stocks was achieved.

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Important information!

Dear fly fishermen,
An e-mail is currently circulating in which the participant contacts of the International Experience the World of Fly Fishing 2024 are being offered for sale. This has nothing to do with us as EWF! Be careful, this is NOT our business!
With kind regards,
EWF organisers

 

Winners of the 17th German Open Fly-Tying Championship 2024! Congratulations!

 

      

 

Category: Dry Fly

1st Place - Luka Jezovšek- - Slovenia|  2nd Place -  Andrea Pegorin - Italy | 3rd  Place - Enrico Reinert  - Germany

Category: Streamer

1st Place - Robert Wolhorn - Germany|  2nd Place - Christian Kölle - Germany |  3rd Place - Miha Sternad - Switzerland

Category: Realistic Fly

1st Place - Manuel Chapa Martin - Spain| 2nd Place - Christian Kölle - Germany | 3rd Place - Charly Streif - Germany

Many thanks to Ahrex, Renomed and YETI for the Sponsoring!

   

          

 

Many thanks to the jury and the coordinators!

    

   

 

Read more about the winners and their flies... 

 

Thank you very much for visiting us at the 19th EWF on 13 and 14 April 2024!

EWF Team 2024

In bright sunshine, we were once again able to welcome many exhibitors and visitors from all over Europe and the world. The atmosphere was great and the programme was overwhelming. In the beer garden we met many cheerful fly fishermen with their friends over a beer and pretzels. The children's and youth programme with tying and casting was sensationally well attended. Despite the beautiful weather, more than 1000 visitors listened to the demonstrations. The women's programme was again a complete success.

We would like to thank the Atlantic Salmon Trust for choosing the EWF as the starting point for its salmon initiative "Wild Salmon Without Borders".

More than 2,000 euros were raised for our new charitable endeavour - supporting Glücksmomente e.V.. A big THANK YOU at this point too!

Thank you to the Veranstaltungsforum Fürstenfeld for their active support, so that the EWF could run so beautifully and perfectly.

We are grateful for the many gifts - culinary delicacies, fine wines, cakes, sparkling wine, fly fishing articles and beautiful souvenirs - that we received from visitors and exhibitors. THANK YOU!

The entire EWF team, some of whom have been with us for 19 years, wish you all the best and look forward to a healthy and happy reunion on 5 and 6 April 2025 - at the anniversary edition of the EWF!

Best wishes from the EWF organisers
Robert and Michaela Stroh, Armin and Nicole Pijawetz