When I’m out fishing I always bring my camera: you never know what you will see. These pictures is from a trip in the Oslo fjord in November, the family of swans was coming slowly next to land and I stopped fishing for 15 minutes while they were paddling past and just sat down to enjoy the view.
Remember to stop up and enjoy the view if you are out fishing and take in sights like this
Hook: Allen S401 #6
Thread: UNI 6/0 Black
Tail: Marabou in different color variations
Body: Black Floss, UNI-Mylar #10
Wing: White Marabou
Throat: Marabou in different color variations
I follow streamers365.com on planet.dryfly.me, and the other day a list of black ghost marabou in different color variations came up, so: I had to tie up some variations on this one to see how it is put together. The marabou should give a lot of movement in the water and the silver ribbed body can’t go wrong. Looking forward to test this in a river across a pool late at night.
Yellow variant:
Green variant:
All together on some cork I have practiced gluing together for my rod project
This week I had a plan of doing something with guinea fowl feathers that have great dots, but then I found this pattern on facebook and though: I’ll give it a go. This was a tricky one, I haven’t done much of classic salmon flies before and the real problem came when I was supposed to mount golden pheasant topping and I realised that I didn’t have any that matched ( I only have one head, and it is picked clean of the good ones….), so: I had to improvise on the topping by putting some peacock on as topping. That ruined part of the flow of this pattern, so I’ll get some new golden pheasant next time I’m in the shop.
The fly was tied on a Dai-Riki 899 #1/0
Hook: Dai-riki 305 #12
Thread: UNI 8/0
Tag: UNI-Floss Red
Tail: Golden Pheasant topping
Body: Hends Superfine, UTC Ultra Wire Silver
Wing: Whiting Rooster Black, Veniard Chinese Cock Doctor Blue
Mixing up the styles a little bit every week is good for practice: today it was a classic wet-fly that I’ll tie up a larger batch of one of these days – might mix up the tag color a bit, but the base pattern here is easy to get started on and works very well for trout and grayling.
The other day was small tubes for treble hook, today are some hair-wing for double hook that I tied up the same night. These should work good for salmon, but also (especially the red-tag) on seatrout and browntrout. I like the redtag the best in terms of colors and execution, and should have some of those tied up for the trout season.
Red-tag:
Orange & Blue:
Green & Black:
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