Andre Scholz
Advisor
Andre was born in 1978 in Schwerte located on the river Ruhr 10km away from the city of Dortmund.
He started fishing for pike at the age of six during a summer holiday in Sweden. A year later he and his parents visited the famous Swedish Salmon River Mörrum where he admired the grace of swinging a spey rod and catching big Atlantic salmon on the fly. From this moment on he had to be a “fly fisherman” and never touched a spinning rod again. During his entire youth he spent his summer holidays on Scandinavian salmon rivers and soon became a good caster and fly tier. Being good in playing Handball and fly fishing he had to decide whether to become a professional Handball player, or spending his free time on the riverbank.
Andre studied at the Ruhr-University of Bochum and he got a Bachelor degree in “Sports Science”. If not teaching at school Andre is teaching spey classes throughout Germany and Europe and if time allows through parts of the US as well.
Having spent more than 30 years casting with spey rods and fishing for Salmon, Seatrout and sporadically for Steelhead he garnered much knowledge of the sport which he is always willing to share with his students.
In the past two decades Andre has also worked with several fly fishing companies like Flyfishing Europe, Vosseler Reels, Nautilus Reels, and the Norwegian Flyfishers Club (NFC). He helped design products, did casting and fly tying demos throughout Europe and the US, along with organizing and hosting destination trips. He has also written several articles for German fly fishing magazines and has an Atlantic salmon fly collection with Rainy’s Flies.
Andre has fished many places in Europe, parts of the US and Canada. Since Germany has only trout fishing to offer, Andre still spends most of his salmon fishing time in the summer on the prolific beats of the NFC on the river Gaula in Norway or you will find him chasing Atlantics on other Norwegian, Swedish, Scottish or English rivers.
Contact: scholz.andre@gmx.net Homepage: andrescholz.net