I’m residing in Alsace (France). My name is claude Behr, and I have a passion for fly-fishing . This art gives as many emotions as feelings. It develops humility and respect. Wild waters and their rustic settings allow his practitioner to feel in harmony with nature.
Fly fisherman since 1982, I invested in fisheries management in 1987. In 1998, I created my first website to promote fly fishing in Alsace. In 2010 I finalized a version witch became a great succes by flyfishermen all aroud the Word. Since November 2015, it is complemented, as part of my company Claude Behr Favorites (C.B.F.), by an online shop.
After 20 years of existence without discontinuity, you find in 2019, this new version of my website dedicated to different aspects of fly fishing in Alsace. The “regulars” will not be too distracted by the content, because they will find most of the old sections, in a more modern site (wordpress), more secure (https), more user-friendly (guestbook and comments) and adapted to both PCs. to tablets or mobile phones (responsive). It does not matter whether you are former visitors or newcomers, here you will discover many aspects of our common passion, fly fishing in Alsace.
ln freshwater fishes can be caught with the fly, and this everywhere, but here, you will discover some special aspects of fly-fishing in Alsace.
You will more particularly find useful informations about:
The flies for Slovenia and other european countries. Here you find the flies that have been by the best duringmy fishing trips in Europe since 1983. Advised and used by my customers since 2009, they are very regularly in Germany, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, as in Norway (Glomma). You will find them in a selection of flies from the collection C.B.F. entitled Europe.
a nahdfull CBF
Formany years, the CBF has been giving a lot of rising fishes and catches from spring to the end of autumn, even making move fish that do not eating and even taking off the big graylings, which obviously do not always take it. In case of infidelity, we always return to this fly, because the biggest rising fish rarely let it pass without honoring it with a climb…
Petit Diablotin Rouge
The PDR is an excellent imitation of caddisfly (trichopterae) and it is often very effective when the river is overflew by swarms of small dark caddis. Moreover, it is well visible in the currents, even from far.
Spent Hepta Perdrix
The SHPhas been tested and improved over several years. Initially with the assembly of wire on the body and a grey CDC wing, it became more visible with a clear CDC wing, and more addictive with a red dubbing body. Floating low like natural insects, it regularly allows me to deceive the most beautiful fish that take the imagos of the great héptagéneidae coming to lay and die, becoming spents, in the late evening
Tip Vert Casquée-1
Even if I fishless by nymph, from time to time I try a trophy fish in the depth at sight, or when no fish is active on the surface I sometimes fish the water with a nymph. In these cases, my first choice is this nymph/ wetfly, the TVC, which is my favorite model. Itregularly interests the beautiful fish and has earned me, on a particularly difficult day, my only (big) catch on the Idrijka.
Renegate Tête Rouge
TheRTRis one of the models that earned me the greatest number of catches in the fall of 2009, when the graylings were not inclined to rise to the surface. Perfectly imitating two coupled gnats, it is a fly that floats well and remains visible to the fisherman despite its small size. His red butt and his head of the same color really seem a plus compared to the classic rénégates. Since 2015, it has been very regular on many European rivers or the hatch of small black gnats make the fishing often very complicated for flyfishermen.
Peute Hommage Bresson-1
The PHB-1 is the most consistent model for the graylings in the late season since 2010, while the PHB-3 model is most effective on trout in late spring and summer. It is sometimes particularly effective at evening hatch.
Klinkhammer Montage Maison-2
ThisKMM-2allowed me in June 2011 to catch a rainbow trout of 65 cm, getting it out from under the hedge where it was hiding. And two days later its attractiveness did not contradict itself when a large trout turned around to fetch it 3 meters behind it, the steel it to one of its congeners to whom I had just presented it. It is so regular that it appears in good place in my selection of essential flies.
Terrestre Orange tag
TOT is an imitation of terrestrial insect, floating low but not easily flowing, remaining very visible despite its small size. In recent years she has surpassed the CBF several times by fishing for water. Particularly effective in the absence of aquatic insects, from April to October. Sometimes also surprisingly effective at summer evening shots. This one is also in good stead in my selection of essential flies.
Other models are regularly successfull during the C.B.F. stays, including EBF-1 and EBF-2, for the large mayflies emerging in spring, CTC-1, on Hook 18 and 20 when fish are sitting on micro midges, and of course the NTO, nymph/wetfly Indispensable when the conditions are particularly unfavourable for fly fishing.
In anticipation of a trip to Slovenia, Italy, Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, or even Germany, Austria, Norway, as many flyfishermen who trust me, you can rely on the selection for Europe of 52 flies from the collection C.B.F. that I propose for these destinations.
A beautiful trout that did not resist a EBF-1 presented along the opposite shore
The company C.B.F. (Claude Behr Favorites), which was in its tenth year of existence in 2019, offers a collection of 62 models of artificial flies, some in several versions, to deal with all fly fishing situations in Alsace , in France and more generally in all fresh waters in Europe and America.
Developed andtyed by myself in Alsace, they benefit from solid hooks, with crushed barb, and materials selected for their qualities and attractiveness.
The effectiveness of these flies has been proven throughout my 38 years of practice. They will allow you to approach each river, each course of water, whatever the season and the weather conditions, with all chances to deceive the salmonids white fish or predators that you track down.
This web page presents the complete catalog of 28 models of dry and emerging flies, 23 nymphs and wetflies models and 9 streamer models.
For all fly orders, you can find them in my online shop where you can also download the various pdf sheets available under the products concerned (fly selections, equipment, fishing trips, accompaniment )
You can always contact me to get any information you need. I wish you you a flyfishing experience with beautiful emotions, and I will try to help you in this way as possible.
I am fishing with the fly since 1982, and in 1998 I created my website with the idea to promote flyfishing in Alsace. At the end of 2009, I published the book “ombres d’automne” (graylings of autumn), about the search of trouts and graylings in the Bruche and other rivers from Europe. Since year 2005, some people asked me to initiate them about flyfishing, or to buy some of my flies. So I decided in 2010 to create the little enterprise C.B.F. (Claude Behr Favorites)
You will find in my online shop what C.B.F. offers to the fishermen: a collection of 63 models of artificial flies, some basic equipment for fishing, flyfishing introductory sessions, and holidays for fishing in Alsace and some other european countries.
If you are interested to order flies or (and) material, please come to my Online-Shop !
