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Craftsmanship
Fly fishermen tend to value it. After all, most of us are tackle and gear aficionados, and I think that everyone of us fall into one of those categories: those ...
Laurent Keiff
Time
Finally the day has come. Trout season opens today. Here's to all the fish we'll catch, to all the fish we'll miss. To all the fish that will haunt our dreams.
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The green river
Somewhere in Utah there's a river, and it's green and cool and clear, and it's full of trouts. Tomorrow is the first day of the season in France, and we'll be b...
Follow us!
Come on, people. We're pumping life into our le_mouching account on Instagram. Plenty of fun there, and sh!tloads of pics of our unbelievable adventures are alr...
Ellipsis: a lesson in video editing
There, this is the kind of stuff we really love at Le Mouching: there is not one redundant frame in those 48 secs. Everything is worked up in the details, every...
Franck’s rods
I knew Franck Slaghenauffi through social medias. He's a rodbuilder and I admire his work, both for the cosmetics and the good technical choices behind the look...
Franck's rods
I knew Franck Slaghenauffi through social medias. He's a rodbuilder and I admire his work, both for the cosmetics and the good technical choices behind the look...
Chilean elves and magic streams
Streams of South Chile are magical. I left my heart along them eighteen years ago, and I don't seem to be recovering. Wild wild forests and pure water, supreme ...
Gou Miyagi
This video usually gets so much heat you'd say it's a commercial for a brand of flame throwers. It's skateboarding, and it's different. Not unprecedented, skate...
They’re back!!
Bearnishfly is French fly film-making at its very best. They've got such a talent to look a everything on the river, water flowing, trees and leaves, meteors, b...
Texas salt
Texas is, as Zach Weiner -- the Sunday Morning Breakfast Cereal guy -- aptly sums up on a tee shirt, is the America of America. It's also home of magnificent sa...
Two minutes Caddis
I love my flies on the gypsy side, and by that I mean: no fancy materials, no fancy techniques and really fast to tie. Of course, it has something to do with th...
Le Bugiste
I'm a great believer in forums for any technical topic. I got countless pieces of premium info in forums concerning computers and software, jazz, cars, hi-fi, f...
The Dark Bullet
I'm without a motorized vehicle these days, and it sucks for going fishing. Looking for the next MouchingMobile, I was just stopped by this fantastic retro edit...
Manifesto (another)
All right, all right, it's a commercial. And this "manifesto" thing may be a little parasitic on our friend Cameron Mortensen huge work for the glass revolution...
Cold hands
I've had some medical issues a couple of years ago, and now the blood flow in my hands is no longer what it was. Which means: my hands get easily cold. And when...
Raffle in Florida
What's a Dan Decibel movie? It's a thick sauce of rich sounds and cool photography, it's a sense of rythm and hot music. But the meat is the story, and this tim...
This is Fly #50
The 50th issue of This is Fly is out. As beautiful as ever, and fully uses the advantages of online magazine: you've got a playlist to listen to while you read....
Possible worlds
In this world Cyril's frozen dead under a ton of snow and I'm dead bored under a ton of chores. But there's a possible world where we're on a flat, and it's rea...
March Browns
March is coming rapidly, although not quite as fast as we'd like, and it's as good a time as ever to hit the vise and tie a couple of March browns. Here are two...
‘Amazon’ McGrath
It's always tricky to mix video footage with pictures, especially when you tell the story of a trip. Usually, it ends up cheesy. But not this time. Let's pack u...
Oliberté Krabu
This bag reminds me the one I had when I got to highschool. It was my father's, an old brown leather bag, a little shapeless but really cool in my eyes : after ...
Idaho Carps
While Cyril is freezing to death in some US ski resort, I can live the life as I please at the Mouching's headquarter. And that means heat. I dream of summer ho...
Up the trees
When I was a kid, trees were my second favorite place in the world (the first was, and will always be, the water's edge). There was, in my aunt's garden, an awe...
Catch Mag #39
The new Catch Magazine is out. In more than a hundred pictures, most of them arrestingly beautiful, and some carefully written texts, you'll travel to Belize fo...
Go Joona!
I really like Scandinavian Jazz. You've got everything in this boiling cauldron of northern magic, from the venerable-and-boring sax of Jan Garbarek to the craz...
Blood Midge Blues
When the indefinitely long winter breaktakes its toll on our organisms, because we crave so much for running water and this incredible adrenalin rush that comes...
Streamer chic
I'm in Nantes for the fishing show, with the Rodhouse team. Come say hello! Meanwhile, here's Abbi Bagwell living the good life, ...
A grip
It's not that often someone comes up with a design that looks like good out-of-the-box thinking. Well, here's one. It's a grip design by Holland Ney of Anadromo...
Movies, not porn
Pierre Lainé, from 9p#5, about fishing movies in the Rise festival program :
For me, the ideal fishing movie would be a movie someone who doesn't fish could en...
Paris Fly Fishing Show
So, you've been wondering: should I plan a trip in the City of Light to attend the Paris Fly show? Of course you should! Just to tease you into it, here's a lis...
Salty fry
I've said it before, and I'll say it often again: I'm a huge fan of Davie McPhail. I always learn a ton about every aspect of fly tying in his videos. And I can...
Waiting
You know of it feels, right? You know the longing, the dirty skies and the cold, and this growing urge to grab a rod just now, and no matter what. And that's a ...
Rodtrip is back!
We've been waiting for this for a long time, but finally the new Rodtrip is out! We've had a good chat with them at Charleroi (actually it's Roselies, I think i...
