Fluebinding

This story shows a lot of pictures from the Jagt & hund (Hunting & dog)show in Dortmund. There were a lot of different things about hunting, but I didn't even visited it. We were busy at our booth all the time. Therefore the pictures shows how "the life were going on" at our place, the sorroundings and some stories about that.

Our booth before the opening   Rod building and fly tying the sign tells       Some of the fly reels as were build at the booth, together with other nice handmade boxes, flies etc.   Here you see Detlef "Leder strumpf" He's making some very nice things in leather   The pond as were in the middle of our exhibition hall   Tuesday morning just before opening of the show   Here you'l see Gerd-Peter modify the tables, so we cut mount our vises

Here you see Gerd-Peters table, he was building cane rods   Detlef at work   Waldemar Nowak was assembling handmade fly reels   My brother in tying, Herman Broers, also known as my uncle...   Herman is doing one of his enormous pike flies   Here you see Jürgen, he tied beautiful small dry flies, and tubeflies in a total different style than the one we are doing up here in the north   These two pictures show how Gerd-Peter start to split the cane-tube to start making a new rod   All the leatherwork at the left side of the picture, is made by Detlev   Another good old friend. Jan Mertens from Belgium. Jan was tying at the Fly-Scene booth

Another view of the pond   Uncle and his wonderful sculpin. At a time in the spring there will be a step by step instruction of this fly, made by Herman and Hans Weilemann.   Nice, isn't it?       Gerd-Peter & Waldemar   The table of Gerd-Peter       This picture shows Gerhard Stenzsel at his booth together with a customer

Jürgen once again   The grand daughter of Gerd-Peter           Here you see Sasha Pütz from the rear. Wolfgang in the green shirt, I had the pleasure to be tying together with, at Brinkhoff's a few year ago               My table

There were four FFF casting instructors at the show       This aquarium were build to show how a Jerk-bait is working in the water       Karl Heinz, the German represent for Fly-Scene   Here we had our daily lunch. Brattwurst mit rolle   These pictures shows how much there were for sale

The pond-bridge   This man were making wobblers   This Zeppeliner air ship were flying around all the time   Here we had a very nice layer-cake. As you may see, Detlef & Herman enjoyed it very much   Here it is   Sasha teaching the daughters of Thomas Kubitz, how to tie flies

Friday evening were we all at a nice restaurant to having a "coming-together" dinner, I don't know all the people, so some won't be named...   The corner containing FFF casting instructors. Faced against us is Sepp Fuchs at the left and Günter Feuerstein at the right   Gerd-Peter & ?   Sasha & Detlef   Gerhard Stenzel   Jan & Karl Heinz   At the rear, Gerd-Peter, Waldemar & Thomas Kubitz, in front Uwe Kaptein

Here facing us is Frank Leicht who is making very nice fly reels   Uncle and his crazy faces...   Here little Sasha is feeded by his "father"