Mario Malarczuk is the newest member of the BUG-BOND Pro-Tying Team... and is also owner of the shop Marios Fliegendose in Sindelfingen in Germany.
Mario comes to the team as a prolific fly tyer, tying some fantastic flies and backing this up by catching fish on those flies as well!
This is a little history of Mario...
"I think I
caught my first fish 1976 when I was 4 years old.
After some
hundred eels, perches and roaches in the following years I had my first contact
with a carp.Impressed with
its power I spent the next 10 years carp fishing.
In 1992 I
bought my first fly rod. A heavy and very soft #8 rod with a none matching
fly line. I was living in the north of Germany and no tackle dealer knew
anything about fly fishing. I fished in a
small lake for pike without any success, but I was now a fly fisher!
1994 I went to
university and moved to Marburg at the river Lahn in the middle of Germany.
After a few days I caught my first grayling with a dryfly and was completely
hooked. I also started
directly with fly tying because flies where expensive for a student.
The first try
at this small river with a pike fly ended with three fish in two hours.
Pike flies where easy to tie because of their size. So I made a lot of them and
caught a lot pike. The owner of
the local flyshop asked me to tie some flies for him and this was the beginning
of my business.
I tied
thousands of flies in the next years, sold a lot of them in upcoming ebay and
created my first webshop.
Today I
specialize in tying streamers for freshwater and saltwater. First I used epoxy
for the heads, but I never particularly liked to work with this stuff because
the setting was difficult to control. When I heard
the first time of a UV product to create the heads of my flies I searched and
tested many products to find the perfect material.
I then bought
my first bottle of BUG-BOND and the search was over….."
Welcome to the team Mario!
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