Florian Kaiser

Florian

When did you start to fish?
I am fishing since 36 years, of that 28 legally (you need a serious license and exam in Germany) and 26 years with the fly.

Who introduced you to fly fishing?
My passion introduced me to fly fishing - as a young teenager it was the logic evolution from bait fishing. Unfortunately I never had a real fishing mentor but I plan to be a good one for my kids. Seems I was a decent mentor for my partner Ines, as she became an avid fly fisher as well. Every day on the water might be a challenge and teaches you a lesson - the school of fly fishing never ends.

Can you tell us a little about your home waters and the fish you pursue there?
I love sight fishing cold, clear freestone rivers. And exactly those rivers are not too far away in the Bavarian, Austrian and Slovenian Alps. Due to the high fishing pressure and C&R being not the norm in Germany and parts of Europe, most of those rivers receive stocking to support the natural population. Nevertheless fishing there in a hot summer day, wet wading, catching rainbows and browns and having a decent siesta on the gravel bank in the shadow with a coold beer, bread, cheese and Italian salami lets you forget to dream of the Caribbean.

What's the height of the season for you? What time of year is your personal favorite?
In my alpine backyard waters, the peak of the season is always when they are low, cold and crystal clear. Depending on rainfall, that can be late or early or never during the season. Besides that I usually do one big global trip a year as a highlight. A month in NZ SI or recently several trips to the South American Jungle. Future might bring me back to the salt again.

What are your favorite travel destinations? What's on the bucket list?
My happy place is definitely SI NZ. The landscape, people, wine, nature, sandflies and the huge trouts - rainbows and browns alike. Fishing and tramping there is always an adventure, challenge and joy. I am highly addicted. Have been four times there and the fifth time is just a head (as of writing this text January 2019). Besides that fishing for Golden Dorado at Tsimane in Bolivia is an absolute highlight in the middle of the jungle. I have been there three times now. This place is special. I started to travel early in search of fly fishing, back in 1995 I spend a summer in the north western half of America (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, BC, Alberta, …). Since then I fished in Baja, Florida, Lapland, Slovenia, Seychelles, Sweden, Los Roques, Scotland, Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina.
The first lines of my bucket list read Mongolia, St. Brandon, Caribbean for Tarpon, the far Islands of the Seychelles and Iceland.

What you like most about Marlo reels?
I have a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and I am a strategic business consultant. That results in a strong affinity to high quality, well-engineered and top-quality products and tools. An excellent example for such tools are the reels developed and designed by Marlo. Tools that I can put my trust to, either deep in the jungle of Bolivia or in the native bush in New Zealand 40km away from the next road.
Comparably to (most) of my business consulting customers, to whom I try to provide advice in how to handle their business, Marlo listens to my feedback fishing the globe and integrates it in his products and business. My Marlo reels travel with me around the globe.

What's your current go-to fly?
The one that caught the last fish. I am not dogmatic on that as most of the waters I fish, fish are eager to feed. At my backyard waters it is a very simple grey silver tungsten-head nymph size 10. A good meal for a hungry trout in cold water. It is kind of a trout magnet at some freestone rivers in Bavaria and Austria.

Marlo Team Member – Florian Kaiser, Starnberg (Bavaria/ Germany)
Web: http://theflyfishingfamily.blogspot.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FlorianKaiser.de
Instagram: @flyfishingflorian
E-Mail: florian.kaiser@gmail.com

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