2005-01-08

  

Information on the online Fly Fishing Magazine Rackelhanen


In the fall of 1995 I got the idea to start a web magazine for flyfishermen/-women and other nature loving people. Over the years, I have come in contact with many skillful flyfishermen/ -women that have greatly influenced my flyfishing interest. Because of this, I wanted to create a place on the web where other flyfishermen/-women and I could share our knowledge and experience with other people.

Rackelhanen Flyfishing Magazine is an non-commercial web-magazine which intends to offer visitors a great deal of interesting information not just about fishing, but also on all other topics connected to flyfishing. It is my belief that flyfishers have a wide interest in nature and because of this they are interested in birds, insects, flowers, trees and all kinds of animals. Many flyfishers are also interested in building their own equipment, such as rods, nets and flies.

The intention of this magazine is that flyfishermen and women, both "professionals" and beginners, should be able to find information that is both educational and interesting and that may contribute to add yet another dimension to their flyfishing.

The reason for naming this webzine to Rackelhanen is simple: My favourite fly is the Rackelhanen, one simple but genius fly, invented by the Swedish fly fishing guru; Kenneth Boström.

(Rackelhane: Swedish name for a hybrid (mixed breed) between a Black Grouse male, (Heathcock) Lyrurus t. tetrix, and a Western capercaillie female, Tetrao urogallus. Two gallinaceous European gamebirds.)

Mats Sjöstrand 1995

  


I'm looking for writers

You are very welcome to contribute yourself. Write an article about a fishing place or a fishing trip, your fishing technique, contribute with a fly pattern, reveal your fly tying secrets or give us a tip on how to fish your home waters. Share your knowledge and experience with fellow flyfishermen and -women all around the world. Your participation is important to keep this magazine interesting and up to date.

Send your material to "Webmaster"

Rackelhanen is a non-commercial publication. I don't earn any money on this publication so I can't pay for any material you send me. I hope you fly fishermen/women from around the world will share your knowledge and experience with others for free.

If anyone of you readers are interested in helping me by proofreading my English translation I would be very grateful. I would also be grateful if anyone would be interested in helping me translate text materials from Swedish in to English.
If you are interested please contact me.

Sponsors

In 2004 I decided to accept contributions from sponsors to help me pay for my expenses for publishing Rackelhanen on the web. I keep the sponsoring to a minimum and I only want to cover my actual expenses. So I do not earn any money for my self. The costs are for my webserver provider, domain fee and bandwidth consumption. I hope my present  and future coming writers and readers understand this policy. The only other option would be to close down this site (horrible thought!). If you or your company want to be one of Rackelhanen official sponsors you are welcome to contact me.

  

So far the following people have contributed with articles, photos, help and other stuff:

Rolf Ahlkvist
Jason Akl
Jonas Andersson

Niclas Andersson
Devanie Angel
Sean Andrews

Heikki Anttonen
Andy Ault

Zeljko Babic
Archie Begin
Jim Benenson

Lennart Bergqvist
Torben Berg-Sørensen
Robert Bettencourt
Jonas Björkman
Ulf Bodén
Christer Boisen
Kenneth Boström
André Brun
Bill Bryden
Per Brännström
Johan Börjesson
Ralph Carlin
Dallas Cassel
Jim C. Chapralis
Hector Claverie
Jack Cook
Josef Davidsson
Harry P. Davis
Misty Dhillon
Petru Dima
John Dobson
Jocelyn Hazelwood Donlon
Bill Drew
Jon Griffin
Leif Ehnström
Kenneth Einars
Steen Ellemose
Dan Fallon
Jan Faltin
Roddy Finnie
Jan-Å Fritzson
Gerben Groustra
Goran Grubic
Thommy Gustavsson
Ulf Hagström
Mikael Hansson
Bruce E. Harang

Chris Hill
Michele Murray
Claes Hederstierna
Tracey John Hittel
Tommy Hjelm
Gerald Hoffnagle
John Holt
Scott Howell
Johan Häkkinen
Anders Isberg
Siv Jansson
Anders Johannesson
Jonas Johansson
Mattias Johansson
Roger Johansson
Gunnar Johnson
Randall Kadish
Tellis Katsogiannos
Bob Kenly
Herb Kettler
John Kingma
Egon Kjernell
Johan Klingberg
Hans van Klinken
Pelle Klippinge
Roger Kloos
Doc Knoll

Pål Krogvold
Jan Kvil

Henrik Larsson
Svante Larsson
Eric D. Lehman
Tom Layson
Jack Lundberg

Mårten Lindhé
Andreas Lindholm
Leon Links

Jeffrey K. Lown
Luciano
Knud Løvø
Martyn Mackenzie Skues
Ramiro Garcia Malbran
Wolfgang von Malottke
James Matthews
Gideon McCain
Davie McPhail
Kjell Midbjer
Nils Mogensen
Stefan Molin
Björn Möller
Marko Niemi
Torbjörn Nilssen Klinga

Peter Nilsson

Gianluca Nocentini
David Norberg
Erik Nygaard

Johan Nygren

Erling Olsen
Tomas Olson
"
Padre"
Håkan Perhans
Per Persson
Olivier Plasseraud

Johan Quick
Danjel Radetic
Arkadi de Rakoff
Gary Romanic
Ismo Saastamoinen
Leif Sahlberg
Göran Sandberg
Doug Scates
Jurij Shumakov
Jon Asle Sjøli
Trico Spinner
Fox Statler

Christer Stenberg

Mikael Svensson
George C Stek
Laszlo Szabo
Kristian Söderström
Arve Herman Tangen

Stig Torniainen
Lenne Törnqvist
Matias Wahlén
William Walker
Randulf Valle
Alf Wennskog
Martin Westbeek

Jörgen Vidmark
Graham Wilkinson
Brian Wiprud
Karl Woodmansey
Steve Volski
Claes Ylving
Jan Östberg

I’d also like to thank the following people who have been kind enough
to help me with translations:

Robert A. Lucas,
Lasse Mårtensson

Ulrika Lindfors Davis
Claudia and Wiking Wahlgren

  

A short presentation of myself:

Born 1961 in Lindesberg, Sweden, but have lived in Helsingborg since 1962, with a short interlude in Eket, Örkelljunga. I have fished all my life, since I was big enough to handle a fishing rod, and began with flyfishing in 1986. Most of my fishing is for brown trout in my local fishing waters, but a couple of times each year I travel to northern regions of Sweden and to Norway to fish for grayling and trout.
As a flyfishermen I live by the saying: Piscator non solum piscatur, (there is more to fishing than catching fish).
My main interests are flyfishing and computers, but I am also interested in birds, hunting (not so often nowadays because of lack of time), rod building, flytying, leather handicraft, photographing and carpentry, history, art and some other stuff.
I work as a printer at a newspaper printing plant.

Maybe we will meet some day out fishing. Have a good life.

- The trout is out there -

Sincerely Mats Sjöstrand

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The pages in the magazine are adapted for Internet Explorer , but of course you can also use other web browsers; but some layout may be lost. Use at least High-color (16-bits). If you only use 256 colors settings for your screen you lose a lot of the qualities of the photographs. I recommend that you use 800x600 or higher resolution. You can view your setting by entering the control panel in W95/98/ME/2000/XP and look under Settings for Screen or Monitor.

In Internet Explorer you should set font size to "middle" (in the View menu).

  

If you have any questions or comments
regarding the Magazine feel free to contact me:

"Webmaster, Editor"
Mats Sjöstrand
Helsingborg, Sweden
E-mail:

Phone: +46 (0)708-754459

 

  

Please respect the regulations and laws on copyrighted materials. Copying text, pictures or any other things from this magazine are not allowed.

© Mats Sjöstrand 2005

  

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