A new and exciting fly dressing company from Finland. Boratbocka are designing and making tube and hook flies. When you buy Boratbocka Products you buy high quality products that are designed in Finland and are also hand made as far as possible. They have a design philosophy to omit everything unnecessary, the price has to be reasonable and if you can do something by hand - do it by hand. Boratbocka has two designers.
Meet the designers coming to the Deveron Fishing Festival 2011, Ville Porkka & Ville Kolehmainen:
Ville Kolehmainen
Ville Kolehmainen is a passionate salmon fly fisher and a demanding product development professional for whom the only reasonable goal in design is perfection. After falling completely for salmon fly fishing Ville has been going round different rivers in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Scotland fishing for salmon whenever it's possible. Ville is hoping to demonstrate the craft of fly dressing to all members of the public who come and see him at the Deveron Fishing Festival. Ville has been fishing his whole life in Simpele and Kallavesi and in his adult years more in northern rivers.
Ville Kolehmainen: “Boratbocka is the ultimate challenge for me — I wish to give something back to this beautiful sport.”
Ville Porkka
Ville Porkka is an artist, a golf pro a passionate fly fisher and fly dresser but above all a skilled hand crafter. In childhood is in Tornio, northern Finland in the Ville has fished all kinds of fish through Summers and Winters, with rods, nets, fly gear both from the shore and by rowing. He has also made his own lure since he was a kid. Ville and his fishing buddy Kari Ohtonen are responsible for the creation of the later legendary “Tear of a Salmon” lure.
Ville Porkka: “To me, Boratbocka represents creativity. Here I can fulfil myself as the kind of fly fisher man and hand crafter that people like to see.”
