Niclas Runarsson

I was born 1971 in Söderhamn, a small town on the east coast of Sweden. Today I live here with my English fiancé Teresa. (Fortunate catch – Not to be released.) In a few weeks we will have our first little daughter... a future fly-tier. Spending many summers at my uncle’s farm with its surrounding fishing waters early laid a foundation for my fishing interest and at 13 yrs of age I finally decided to try fly-fishing and fly-tying.

A few years later other interests took over and all my fishing equipment was buried in the basement, where it stayed for almost 15 years. When I finally dug it up again, much had happened in fly-tying and I was lost in all the new terms, new techniques and new materials. But I bumped into some very nice people at Virtual Flybox and they have given me an incredible help to get up-to-date again. Having been invited to tie at Sowbug 2006, I hope that as many as possible of these guys also will be there. I owe them a lot and it would be great to get to shake their hands and thank them in person.

I primarily fish the local P&T waters. Being an epileptic, I’m not trusted with a driver’s license and I can’t really ask my fiancé to “drive me 100 km’s and then pick me up in the evening”. They aren’t bad waters to fish, but a catch on a specific imitation still doesn’t feel like a confirmation that I have achieved what I aimed for, as the fish generally hasn’t been there long enough to learn the local fauna… or maybe even seen the insect before. I might be wrong about this, but I can’t feel convinced about my fly until I it has worked also on wild fish.

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Even though I mostly tie trout flies, it frequently happens that I slip and tie something that’s never going to follow me on a fishing trip. I use to tie at least something every day. Where it then ends up or if I even will have any practical use for it is another matter. Fly-tying is just too fun for being done only “when necessary” and I consider it well enough to be an interest of its own, outside fishing. The fact that the two combined will open into a much wider third is just a great bonus.

Niclas Runarsson

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