Jarkko has been competing actively in fly fishing already for almost 20 years. He is internationally the most experienced and most successful competition angler in Finland. Jarkko has been a part of the Finnish national team for 14 years already. Besides having three national individual championships, he has World Fly Fishing Championship Team silver and several other good placings (2nd in 2005 Sweden, 4th in 2009 Scotland, 2013 Norway and 2014 Czech Republic). Furthermore, he has several individual placings among the best ten anglers (4th in 2005 Sweden, 6th in 2010 Poland, 7th in 2013 Norway and 10th in 2004 Slovakia). In addition, he has the team silver medal in The America Cup (2013 Vail, USA), 3rd place in Pro Fly Angling Tour (2014 Colorado, USA) and team gold medal in Eikre-Fly Invitational (2017 Norway). Jarkko’s strengths are his vast international experience and his versatility regarding various fishing techniques. Thanks to his long career in competition angling Jarkko is known to stay calm in every imaginable condition.

When not competing Jarkko enjoys fishing especially for grayling either in Finland or Central Europe. On his trips he also likes to spend some time behind the camera. Currently, Jarkko is working in close co-operation with Vision HQ to design a premium rod series for modern nymphing.

Antti has been in the Vision World Team since 2007. First he started out working for us half of the year with demos and casting courses and rest of the year he dedicated for fishing and guiding. Since 2012 Antti has been working as our second product manager and nowadays he has the main responsibility for our rods and lines.

Although river fishing for grayling and atlantic salmon is Antti’s first love he enjoys just about all forms of fly fishing. Normal year for Antti consists of pike and seatrout from the Bay of Finland in the spring, mayfly time for brown trout in Estonia, salmon, grayling and seatrout in Teno and Finnmark in the summer and back to the Baltic in the fall. Also the crystal clear waters of Austria are in the menu both during spring and fall. Hunting the flats in the tropics have become an absolute obsession for Antti and he tries to spend at least couple of weeks doing it every year.

Antti has been teaching fly casting since 2005. In 2008 he passed all three examinations of casting instructors from F.F.F. (Federation of Fly Fishers) in a single event in Treviso Italy. He holds both MCI (Master Casting Instructor) and THCI (Two Handed Casting Instructor) certifications.

Aki defiantly lives the “dream.” Spending his winters snowmobiling and ice-fishing at Northern Scandinavian Mountains and his summers chasing really huge grayling, arctic char, trout and pike in and around the Enontekiö wilderness area, gives Aki his most joy. “I have never had a desk job and never plan to. It just wouldn’t seem right.”

I have been fly fishing for over 15 years and since 2006 I run my own guiding company, named GRAYLING LAND. During my fishing career I have visited many wonderful grayling, trout and char rivers, but compared to any other river the Magic River is unique. In the northernmost reaches of Finland, there's a Magic river where the grayling grow really big. Every year dozens of grayling over 1 kg (over 2.2 lbs), the largest ones exceeding even over 2 kg (over 4.4 lbs) in weight, are caught there on dry.

“I really enjoy teaching people new techniques and seeing them catch fish is really exciting to me. When guiding I still consider myself fishing, but I have to do it through my clients, choosing the right fly, using the right approach and technique. When they get into fish, I feel like I had a big part in it and it is really rewarding.” Mention dry fly fishing for grayling and Aki might just go crazy.

Sepp started 35 years ago with Fly-fishing. He was very passionate to unlock the secrets of the rivers. One of his trademarks is practicing and using trickcasts to avoid obstacles and master the different currents in a river. And he’s more than willing to teach you his tricks.

Sepp is nowadays an international instructor and flytier. He gives flycasting demo’s and lessons at a lot fly fishing events such as Fly Fair, Danish Fly Festival, FFF Conclave and several other international and national shows and fly fishing events.

He’s member of the Dutch Association of Advanced Fly Tiers (D.A.A.F.T.), EFFA Master Fly Casting Instructor, board member of the Fly Casting Department EFFA, board member of the Dutch department of the EFFA and board member of his home Fly-fishing club “Vliegvisvereniging Voorne-Putten”.

Sepp is a very innovative instructor (inventor of the SF-roll cast –a method for training rollcast on the lawn) former Dutch fly casting champion, he has his own fly casting video and is the inventor of the famous welded flyline loops with the use of shrinktubes.

I began to take interest in flyfishing from fly tying. I started flyfishing at the age of 12 years. Since then, the whole head is immersed in this fishing method. Tying flies, casting, reading articles, making demonstrations, tours, fishing in extreme conditions, taking new challenges - this is flyfishing definition to me.
In summer, the main target - Grayling. In spring and autumn - salmon, sea trout, trout, both one-and two-handed rods, depending on conditions. I am two times Lithuanian champion in flyfishing(2008, 2010). I won Vision CUP in 2007 (the first Lithuanian C&R competition). In the year 2011 I passed the FFF casting instructor exam - being the first one in Lithuania. I teach people casting, fly tying and flyfishing subtleties. I write articles for local magazines and my homepage.While living in Kaunas, Lithuania in the center itself, I have perfect conditions to achieve the most beautiful rivers in the region, so I spend quite a lot of time fishing. I am sure that it is the living practices into theories of the body. And of course all the new ideas are born by the river.Since last year, flyfishing is also my livelihood. I sell fishing tackle and run courses. I do not like standing water, and cold winters, when the river freezes over and there is no where to fish. But whenever there is an opening of the first shoot in the creek in spring, you can find me there…We have wild nature and everyone may choose to stay in tents for free near the river or country tourism for a very friendly price. We have natural born fish hear, so it is more pleasure to find and catch them.So If you wish to come to the wild nature in a centre of Europe contact me.

I've been fishing for about 15 years now. I've competed more than ten of them, and been a member of Team Finland for 9 years. My biggest achievements are World championship silver in 2001 and bronze in 2007. Vision has been supporting me basically from the beginning. Currently I am the Captain of the Fly Fishing Team Finland (in European Championships).

My favorite venues are in the middle parts of Finland and in England, where I've fished with many good friends both in lakes and beautiful rivers.

In this picture I was fishing a river 140 km north form my city, Helsinki.

I had just broken my ankle from three places and I was wearing a plaster cast. There was no way I could have fit a boot on top of my wader sock, so I had to take my crutches with me. At 02.10 am, I managed to hook this fish and eventually C&R it. That is something I can'trecommend for anyone to try....

Currently I am living in Sydney, Australia and really looking forward to see what Australia has to offer. Surfing is great, that I already know, but what about fly fishing? I have been told that saltwater fly fishing near Sydney can be fantastic. We'll see...

Jasper has been an enthusiastic fly fisherman since the tender age of 11. His first encounters with fishing were on a summer cottage when he was only 2: bait fishing for perch made such an impact to him that fishing became a full time hobby. Born and raised in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, it was hard to find proper fishing grounds so a piece of his mother's sewing thread as fishing gear and a toilet bowl as the hot spot was all that was needed to satisfy his instinctive urge for catching fish.

Since getting his first fly fishing gear his main target has primarily been brown trout - preferrably huge specimens. However, the occasional salmon, grayling and pike fishing trip is always welcome. His newest interest is tropical saltwater fly fishing for bonefish and tarpon, and he states scoring a grand slam a project he intends to fulfill within the next 2 years (IT HAPPENED IN MARCH 2011. Place was Jardines de la Reina, Cuba. Congrats Jasper! ).

In addition to being a keen fly fisherman Jasper works as a full time actor in the Finnish film industry. He has starred in two of the most successful Finnish films of all time, the latest main role being the one of Matti Nykänen, the legendary ski jumper and Finnish national icon, in an biographical film made of his life.

Bas was born in Rotterdam, March 1958. He gets an infection of the fly-fishing virus after a holiday in Sweden in 1995. His first attempt for fly-fishing was 2-years later in Norway. After he gets his first casting lesson on a park place, in the North of Norway, from a lorry driver he cached his first fish, a tiny Grayling. He went home and was totally hooked!

In a short time he learnt and practised a lot to improve on his casting-, flytying-, and fly fishing skills and became fly-casting champion of Holland. He did a lot to improve the casting skills off the Dutch VNV instructors and set in cooperation with the VNV the goals for the VNV casting certification programme.

He travelled a lot to chasing fish with his fly-rod and went from the Bahama’s (bonefish) to Ireland (Salmon) from Austria (colourful Grayling and Trout) to Norway (Polak, Salmon, Grayling and beautiful Trout) from Germany (Trout and Grayling) to Canada (from Chinook to Brook Trout). And every year he doesn’t forget to visit Denmark to catch one of his favourites fish the silvery Sea-trout.

At present he is an EFFA Master Instructor and a member of the EFFA Casting Advisory Board, Chairman of the recently founded Fly-fishing Club Voorne-Putten (VV-VP), chairman of the Dutch EFFA department, member the Dutch Association of Advanced Fly Tiers (D.A.A.FT) but they are not daft at all), Chairman of the fish management commission of the Oostvoornse Lake and a member of the Vision World Team.

Bas gives presentations about entomology, workshops on fly-casting techniques and tactics, gives fly-casting and fly-tying demo’s and lessons at clubs, fly fishing events (Fly Fair, Fly-happening, Visma, Fair for Lure and Fly, Nordic Hunting and Fishing Show etc.), game fairs and supplies information about fly-fishing courses in Norway, Germany and Denmark (sea trout), at fly-fishing clubs in the Netherlands.

He loves to demonstrate and teach fly-casting techniques at National and International Fairs. His biggest smile he gets when one of his students catch his first fish on the fly-rod and see the sparkling in his eyes that “He’s totally hooked” too!!

For more than 10 years Mika has been co-operating with Vision and has been in their World Team from the beginning. In November 2010, Mika started his new job as the marketing manager for Vision Group Ltd. He will be responsible for managing the Vision World Team. Earlier he was a senior researcher at Helsinki University of Technology, where he got his Dr.Tech (Ph.D) degree in underwater robotics in 1999.

He was the Master Guide of the Trout Camp on the Varzina River on Kola Peninsula / Russia for seven season (2000-2006). See his summary for season 2001. He was also the CEO and head guide for Fly Fishing Finland Ltd (guiding, travel, courses) during 2002-2006. Mika was elected to be the Fishing Guide of the Year 2006 by SKES (The society for promoting the Finnish fishing travel industry).

Mika has been the Captain of the Fly Fishing Team Finland since 2007 (World Championships). See, team pages here. Earlier, he was for three years (1997-1999) time a competitor in the Fly Fishing Team Finland. He has also participated three times (05-07) in the invitation-only fly fishing competition Master de Campeones de Pesca in Cantabria, Spain. Participated in 2007 in an invitation only competition in Killarney, Ireland. Participated 2010 in for the first World Varsities Trout Fly Fishing Competition in Corrib, Ireland.

Mika was one of the founders of a high-quality Finnish fly fishing magazine, Pohjolan Perhokalastaja. He is still member of the editorial board of that magazine. Mika was also a member of the editorial board of the other Finnish fly fishing magazine, Perhokalastus, in 1997-1998. Altogether, he has published more than 30 full length articles in the Finnish fly fishing magazines. As example articles, please see his stories (in Finnish) about steelhead research on Russian Kamchatka Peninsula, Patagonia trout fishing, Praslin bonefishing and saltwater fly fishing basics. Additionally, his articles and pictures have been published in international publications including Russian, Chilean and Scottish fly fishing magazines.

He has been featured in several newspaper and magazine articles. During the last few years he has been appearing and hosting several TV and video programs. Mika has been the president, the secretary and a board member in a local fly fishing club, Espoon Perhokalastajat. The club has approximately 180 members at the moment. Mika has been involved in organizing several hands-on courses in fly fishing and fly tying in Finland for both novices and experts alike. He has also given several lectures in various Finnish fly fishing clubs over the past ten years.

Currently, Mika is also part of the Saltwaterflyfisher.com Team. Furthermore, he is co-operating closely with another fly fishing travel company called Fishbum.travel.

Age: 36
City: Jääli, Finland
Club: Oulun seudun perhokalastajat
WFFC- experience: WFFC 2003 Spain, WFFC 2008 NZ, WFFC 2010 Poland
EFFC- experience: EFFC 2004 Sweden, EFFC 2005 Poland, EFFC 2006 Slovenia.
National experience: Finals 2002 Merikarvia, Finals 2003 Taivalkoski, Finals 2005 Kynäsjoki, Finals 2006 Simojoki, Finals 2007 Äyskoski, Finals 2010 Merikarvia.

Flyfishing has always been a very important part of my life, but this interest, this hobby has been changed into a way of living! The past many years I’ve been working as a Guide and Camp Manager at different fishing-destinations in Scandinavia, but mostly at Atcha Camp, Ponoi River, on the Kola Peninsula in Russia. Also rivers like Måls River, Stjørdal River -Norway and Lainio River, Muonio River –Sweden. Many, many others have been fished privately.

My approach to fishing is not only based on one type of fly-fishing, I believe ``everything`` can be caught on a fly. Mostly, I am chasing Trout and Sea-trout in a river or on the coastline of southern Sweden or Denmark in the spring, Salmon in the summer and back to Sea-trouthunting in the fall. But a lot of various species such as Cod, Mullet, Pike and many others are being hunted. Recently I’ve become very interested in Saltwater fishing for Bonefish, Tarpon and everything else that can be caught in and around the warmwater-shores. I love to try things that seem to be impossible! The smallest rod for the biggest fish, fish your tube-fly backwards and so on. My fishing is constantly developing and there is always new ideas to be tested. Nothing is impossible until it’s been tested, and tested again!!.At the moment I´m working in the largest tackle shop in Copenhagen, Denmark, called Sport Dres. Here I´m selling fishing equipment and having fly tying and fly-casting courses, when I´m not fishing. –I really do, Live To Fish!!!

I have worked as a Professional fishing guide since 2001. I worked and I still work for a destination named Rajamaa, 200km north of the polar circle, on an island in the middle of Muonio River.Since 2006 I run my own company named J.L Guiding, were I offer professional guiding and flyfishing courses.When I am not working as a fishing guide I work as a teacher and instructor. Teaching fishing guides in Sweden since 2003.Fishing and outdoor life have been a natural thing in my time growing up. I started to practice fishing when I could hold a stick in my hand. I started fly-fishing and fly tying for real the year 1990 when I got my first flyfishing equipment and first flytying kit.

A 29 year old punk, that started fly-fishing 20 years ago. Has worked in the business for the last 11 years and fished Vision Gear since the beginning when Vision was called Vision impossible (Great supplies... Not!). Has been part owner of the old Swedish fly fishing wholesaler, Fly-Dressing for the last 8 years. Loves to fly fish everything that swims. Always tries to catch odd species on fly.

Lives together in Stockholm Sweden with his girlfriend and a Golden Retriever, that likes fly fishing as much as he does.

Pike fishing is his favourite but is trying hard to catch a halibut on fly. Take a Big Mama line, cut 70cm from the tip, and use an 11 weight line on a 10 weight Gtfour SW medium rod and you have a deadly combination for pike.

SOCIAL CHAMPIONSHIP OF SPORT FISHERMANS “RÏO ARGA” (PAMPLONA) SPAIN
-1993 - absolute Champion.
- 1996 - classified second
- 1999 - absolute Champion.
- 2000 - absolute Champion.
- 2007 - classified second

PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIP OF (NAVARRA) SPAIN
- 1996 - Third classified and greater piece.
- 1997 - classified second.
- 1998 - absolute Champion.
- 2000 - absolute Champion.
- 2001 - absolute Champion.
- 2002 - classified second.
- 2003 classified second.
- 2005 absolute Champion.
- 2006 - absolute Champion.

SELECTIVE FOR THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
- 1998 - Sixth classified (classified for the World championship of Poland 1998)
- 1999 - classified Quarter (Classified for World championship of Australia 1999)
- 2000 - First classified (Classified for the World championship of Sweden 2001)
- 2002- Sixth classified (Classified for the World championship of France 2002) - 2004- classified quarter (selected for World championship Slovakia 2002 )
-2005- classified quarter (classified for World championship Sweden 2005 )

WORLD FLY FISHING CHAMPIONSHIP
- Poland 1998 - Spain Seventh.
- Australia 1999 - Spain Quarter.
- Sweden 2001 - Spain 14º.
- France 2002 - Spain Third (BRONZE MEDAL)
- Spain 2003 - ``Captain`` Spain Third (BRONZE MEDAL)
- Slovakia 2004 - Spain 6º
- Sweden 2005 - Spain 6º