Who is Günter Feuerstein?
Dipl. Päd. Günter Feuerstein, was born in Dornbirn, Austria in 1965. He lives in Switzerland since quite some time where he works as a teacher and runs a fly fishing school (UFC©). Günter started fly fishing in 1978 and during the last decades he became one of the most successful and best known fly casting instructors worldwide. Besides his extraordinary fly casting skills and his developments of fly fishing techniques he is known for his very rare talent to teach fly casting and even difficult techniques in a well understandable way independent from the intellectual background of his clients. Many years ago he started a new way of instructing people which makes it possible that even complex casts can be learned and understood in a very short time. By understanding the fly casting movements based on the biomechanics of the casts many casts which were said to be very difficult up to that time where demystified by him. This very direct way of teaching made him internationally successful.
During the last 15 years Günter Feuerstein has brought a lot of input into the international fly casting scene. He is known to have developped several trick casts and techniques which have found their way into modern fly fishing with one-handed and also two-handed rods(e.g. Backhand Power Haul aka High Hauling, Snap-T, Snap-Z, Magic Switch, Dunker, Vertical Bow Cast, …).
Günter Feuerstein is said to have been the moving spirit to found the former FFF-Europe as well as the first international European Fly Fishing Association (EFFA). In 2007 he was elected president of this organisation which has meanwhile got members in 14 European countries. A strong European fly fishing organisation which represents the interests of the European fly fishers and underlines the significance of the impact of European fly casting, fly fishing and fly tying on fly fishers around the globe is his big dream which he wants to see come true some day. Günter Feuerstein has been demonstrating fly casting at major shows in Europe, Asia and the States and has been teaching fly casting from the west of USA to the East of Russia. He has trained many of Europe’s outstanding fly casting instructors personally.
Nymph fishing is his great passion in which he got specialized during the last 20 years because he thinks nymph fishing to be the most complex and difficult of all fly fishing techniques. The more difficult a fish is to catch the more interesting a fish is for him. Many weeks during the year Günter Feuerstein is travelling abroad with his fly rod. He especially likes fishing for the large but spooky trout in Montana, Idaho and the Yellowstone Park, fishing for the numerous salmonid species in Russia, the hunting of giant Danube Salmon (hucho hucho) in the large Austrian rivers and more and more saltwater fishing.
Besides his fly fishing activities Günter is often consulted by universities and fishery boards, too, for his practical knowledge on trout and grayling based on their “bio-logic”, as he puts it. He is specialized on rainbow trout and has produced a film about their life-circle as well as several others on fly fishing. Günter Feuerstein is a consultant of LOOP Tackle Design, Sweden and a member of the LOOP Pro Team.
- fly fishing
- since 1978,
- fly fishing consultant and LOOP Pro-Team member
- EFFA -Master Flycasting Instructor
- EFFA president and chairman of the EFFA Fly Casting Department
- former FFF-Europe Master Flycasting Instructor (organisation dissolved)
- honorary member of the FFF Fly Casting Board of Governors in the USA (until 2006)
- flycasting, flytying and enthomology classes around the globe
- demonstrator at famous flyfishing events in Europe, USA, Russia (e.g. Chatsworth Angling Fair, Danish Fly Festival, Fly Fair, Fly Days Moscow, FFF-Conclaves,...)
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