And then there were four......

In august 2009, when everyone in Holland was minding their own summer business, a small post appeared on a popular Dutch fly fishing internet forum called Prikbord (pronounced Prick Board, which it usually isn't). It was a letter from Simon Graham about the pike fly fishing tournament he is organizing in may 2010 in Finland. Harmen-Jan (now our Team Captain) and not much later Sander ("Arubaman") jumped on it like hungry pike and began mailing each other about forming a Dutch team. They both selected another candidate, and so Erik and Henk-Jan came aboard.

A quick meeting was arranged at a Van der Valk road restaurant ("valk" is Dutch for falcon, which explains the toucan in the logo of the restaurant), where Harmen-Jan unfolded a slick plan to find sponsors for this project. And now, a few gigabites of e-mails, hours of phonecalls and already some testfishing later, we feel it's time to put ourselves and the project online. We could of course have waited until all would have been set and there were no more loose ends, but we think it fits much better in the concept of a blog to keep things dynamic and make this a true report of our project, from the beginning until the end.

In Holland we can fish for pike almost all winter long, so stay tuned for plenty of pike-porn, fishing reports, video's, tech-talk, colums, weird stories and other stuff that has (or sometimes has not) anything to do with pike fly fishing. By the way, we congratulate (and thank!) Vosseler to be the first sponsor link we put on this blog. Much more about that (and rods!) later....