A 'dry fly' love song from Sweden

7 Apr, 2013 11:37 PM

Fisherman Rolf Nylinder is from Sweden and bought a 30 dollar guitar during a trip visiting New Zealand, His friend Peter had a Mac with "Garageband". So obviously he felt compelled to rewrite a song (apologies to Leonard Cohen) to spread the word about true fly fishing! frontsidefly.com

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