#36 Category 3 fly company - work your fingers to the bone

In this episode I talk to Sean Andrews, founder of the New Zealand based Category 3 Fly Company.

C3 supplies flies world wide.

He tells me about ice fishing for trout with flies and a hand line in Sweden, how he learned to fly fish on chalk streams in the UK as child on the same rivers Frank Sawyers was a river keeper, how difficult it is to find a tying partner, who the greatest fly tyers in the world are, why tying a hare and copper commercially is difficult, he speculates that the 101 is the perfect fly, recruiting people for fly tying who needs a leg up in life, paying royalties for new fly patterns, how you get space in a fly shop, the politics in the fly industry and the challenges the industry faces.

https://www.category3flycompany.com

For those interested to read on some of the UK father of fly fishing Sean mentions go to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sawyer_(writer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._E._M._Skues