Catskill tyer features in the new Mayflies & More Promo

Chris Sandford... Mayflies & More DVD Promo from BUG-BOND on Vimeo.

Famous Catskill fly tyer Harry Darbee features alongside Ulf Hagstrom in Chris Sandford's new Promo video...

Fly Tying books are back home!

As a footnote to the last post... Paul's books have been returned! Here is what he had to say...

"Didn't I always say what wonderful people police officers are? No? Well I will from now on.

My trailer and books have had a very interesting holiday to a traveller's site in the West Midlands. The books were unloaded, fortunately somewhere dry, while their temporary owners wondered what on earth they could do with them.... Meanwhile the trailer seems to have been busy, collecting two different registration numbers chalked on the back and acquiring a new flooring of diesel and broken glass.
When it was pointed out that the books were so valuable that anyone stealing them would be likely to incur a prison sentence the surprised and kind travelling man jumped in his van and travelled all the way to Aberystwyth to deliver my trailer and books to the Police Station there. The books have had rather a battering but seem very glad to be home!"

 

Good news!

THEFT! Fly Tying/Fishing Books

I was horrified to hear that Paul Morgan of Coch-Y-Bonddu books recently suffered a theft... it happened last weekend...

This was Paul's post that greeted me on Facebook this morning:

"Over the weekend bandits stealing old steel shelving from my warehouse also took a trailer full of books. The stock from the Dutch Fly Fair had been stored there, ready for the BFFI. I can't imagine what a West Midlands scrap dealer is going to do with half a ton of fly-tying books, even if it does include some of our beautiful leather editions. Reckon they'll just get dumped in the rain somewhere. However, on the outside chance that anyone out there gets offered some cheap fishing books…"

"I don't think the thieves had any idea what was in the trailer, and suspect that they will just dump the books in a layby somewhere.

Lots of new books like The Essential Kelson, Dynamic Nymphing, etc., plus quite a few Flyfisher's Classic Library books.

I can't see any bookseller touching them. It will be immediately obvious that they have come from me."

 

It will be very sad if they are dumped in a lay-by or used to heat a boiler!

As per usual if you see anything or have any information please contact your local police station... international readers please keep a look out as well.

Many will know Paul not only from the show circuit but also his book shop...  Paul Morgan Old & New Books on Fishing & Field Sports, Coch-y-bonddu Books Ltd & The Flyfisher's Classic Library, Machynlleth, Mid-Wales SY20 8DG, U.K. Tel. 01654-702837

BUG-BOND en Paris part deux!

Just back from EFTTEX with good connections made and putting the brand about... it was an interesting couple of days...

BUG-BOND goes to Paris

After a super successful show at the Dutch Fly Fair two weeks ago we are on the road again. We are off to Paris this weekend to the European Fishing Tackle Trade Exhibition... I'll be on stand D11 with Veniard Ltd... come and see me and say hello!

BUG-BOND goes Dutch!

Two years ago BUG-BOND was in its infancy and my first international show was the Dutch Fly Fair... the Netherlands has always had a part of my heart through non-fishing friends and BUG-BOND has been supported well there. So, this weekend if you are in the Netherlands come visit the show... you will find the BUG-BOND team out in force and I am delighted to have co-sponsored the Fly Fair shirt... you will see that in honour of the Netherlands our logo has gone orange!

See you there!

Fish On! with Chris Sandford

Fish On! with Chris Sandford from BUG-BOND on Vimeo.

We often see flies that have been tied well and sometimes you are left to wonder whether the tyer catches fish with them or whether they are just pretty follies. Well if you have already watched the video you will realise that although a good fly tyer, Chris Sandford is a committed angler... He fishes with a purpose... He doesn't dream follies, he creates flies that catch and catch again! I've had first hand experience of Chris's flies and fly tying... if you ignore his book and DVD "Mayflies & More" I think you may be missing a trick and could rue the day. Your choice... But if one of those 10 patterns could catch you the fish of a lifetime? Mmmm... Hard choice... Especially if THAT fish passes you by. 


OK, I have to get back to tying a catcher... My favourite is the "Bullet" what's yours?


Tight lines!