THE LATEST NEWS and advice on fly fishing, fly fishing gear, fly fishing trips, and fly fishing books and media.Brian O'Keefe: From Kiwi to Kashmir
It's easy to think Brian O'Keefe has done it all. He's traveled the world as a fly fisherman and photographer and fished in many of the places most of us just dream about. While sharing plenty of good advice on photography, O'Keefe takes us through a few favorite stories, beginning in New Zealand and ending up on the India/Pakistan border, where an armed confrontation ends as they all should: with someone buying a beer.
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Interviewer: Zach Matthews | Itinerant Angler
Podcast Excerpt: "In 1973, when I told a lot of my friends that I was going to New Zealand, they thought it was like New Guinea or New Caledonia or some real exotic place like that. Those in the know obviously knew all about it, but it was definitely beneath the radar for most. I walked with a backpack and a Fenwick fly rod from the tip of the North Island all the way down to the tip of the South Island and fished every river along the way. It took about eleven and a half months, and of course part of the time it was winter there so I fished as much as I could and then got a job washing dishes at a little hotel and skied every day at that nice little ski area in Queenstown. But that whole time on North and South Island I never saw another fly angler."
Comments
If there is such a think as reincarnation when I die I want to come back as Brian O'Keefe. He has done it all and is starting to go around the second or third time!
Posted by: Wayne | March 21, 2008 11:42 PM