Sasha Putz

I was born in 1971 in Hemer, Germany, were I still live with my girlfriend Britta and our dog Alice. Fly fishing all began in 1985, when I saw 2 fly fishers fishing for grayling and trout on my home water. I saw them casting and from then on only one thought ran through my mind, I want to learn fly casting and fly fishing!
I bought my first rod, reel and fly line and went down to the river and caught my first grayling and trout. After a short period of time I learned fly tying and soon I was trying to create my own special patterns for the waters near my home. Now I tie flies and go fly fishing for over 16 years, and I am very proud of having learned everything on my own, I never had fly fishing or tying classes.

In 1989 I traveled for the first time to the swedish river Mörrum, and from these early days of salmon fishing and salmon fly tying I began my special passion for the salmon fly.
Since 1998 I have tied at many fly fishing shows in germany and other european countries. Special highlights being the Danish Fly festival in Kolding, Denmark and the Fly Fair in Hattem, the Netherlands. I took part in different national and international fly tying competitions and my best results thus far have been the silver medal for hair wing salmon flies and a bronze medal for fully dressed salmon flies at the Mustad Scandinavian Open.
Another great success of mine was the good results I achieved with different fly patterns in Ken Sawada´s Flytying Competition (Japan) in the classes better and excellent artworks.

Up until now my greatest success I ever achieved was winning the 2003 Grand Prix at Ken Sawada!
I have also had good results in the slowenian fly tying competition and other tying competitions in Germany, e.g. Flyfishing Brinkhoff and I even won some of them.
I am very pleased that a german artist chose some of my classic salmon flies and tube flies for creating a calendar for 2002 (classics) and 2003 (tube flies).

My latest great achievement was winning the 2004 Irish Open Flytying Championships. My overall prize was presented to me at the 2004 British Fly Fair by Paul Little of Cumbria (who tied these flies) and Peter Dunne of Ireland who organised the Flytying Championships.