Welcome to Fishing Wild Places!
Hello,
I am Erik van den
Berg, born and bred in 's-Hertogenbosch in the South of The
Netherlands and I am manager sales & marketing at triptic (www.triptic.nl) a high tech company specialized in digital comunication and Internet solutions.
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I
have fished for over 25 years with a fly rod and over the years my fishing
trips have taken me
to many corners of the world in search of hungry fish. Through the years
I have started to see
fly fishing
as "a way of life". Catching fish is all very nice and important
but there's so much more ! I already feel very lucky to
be able to walk, with fly rod
in hand, along a nice river or lake, away from the busy world, just doing
whatever I feel like.
I try to carry this special feeling along into the rest of my, valuable,
spare time. Which could mean drinking a cool pint of Guinness
in a cozy pub or at the
home of a friend. To have a special meal with friends
or at home with my wife, enjoying a nice glass of wine,
to finish it off with a smelly
bit of cheese and
a sip of old Malt Whisky... Just to give you some examples.
Books are a very important part
of my fishing pleasures and I am proud of my
well filled bookcase. More and more do I look for story or
adventure books instead of the "how
to" ones. It's not because I feel that I haven't got anything left to
learn (a fisherman will keep on learning until his last day on earth) but
it's because they give me the feeling of "being out there" although
I'm sitting in my chair at home.
I
always enjoy sharing my experience with other fly fishermen (and women)
and the worldwide Internet is of course a great tool for that. I hope that
my web pages
will be of your interest, I will update them from time to time with new stories
and subjects.
If you have some time and you would like to leave your
opinion, share a story or ask me something, just send me an e-mail.
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