Hello, my name is Gustav Fröléen.
I was born in 1992 in Stockholm, Sweden and I have lived there ever
since. My interest in fishing started when I was about eight years old.
As usually it began with spinning and angling, but in time I came into
fly fishing.
I have always been a creative person. I like doing things with my
hands, building small detailed things up, why LEGO, origami and
eventually fly tying was devoted a lot of my time off school. It once
struck me that I had seen a magazine showing a review of different
starting kits for fly tying, and I thought it might be worth trying. So
I started doing some fly tying and it didn't take too long until I was
digging deep into it. That's typical to me, whatever really interests
me makes me spend a lot of time and effort on it.
Quite soon my father noticed my new hobby and thought it was a shame
that those flies never came to use. Therefore he was kind enough to buy
me my first flyrod and after that I was hooked. Never before had I felt
such joy and excitement about fishing. My interest in fly fishing has
also brought me many new friends which I spend a lot of my spare time
with.
At first I was quite a loner at fishing, but as I discovered the
fishingrelated forums on the internet my interest for fishing
increased. I have also had the great advantage of living in a city with
an outstanding fully fly fishing-related store in it, namely Stockholm's
Flugfiskecenter, which expanded my fly fishing further.
I am also very interested in photography, classical music, nature
science (biology and chemistry in particular) and just hanging around
in nature, studying what's around me and breathing the lovely
atmosphere. Without nature, I'm nothing. With nature, I'm still nothing
because to me, nature is the most fantastic and beautiful of all things
and fly fishing is a great way of enjoying it. That's why I am a fly
fisherman.