Salmon Bomber

Posted on 3 February, 20141 February, 2014 by Håvard Eide deer hareline

Tail: Hareline Para Post Wing White
Body: Hareline Premium Deer, Genetic Cock Saddle Green Highlander, Whiting Bronze brown

I was browsing youtube today and I watched a couple of videos involving salmon taking bombers in the surface. So: since this blog is all about testing out new things I had to test this out. The first attempt below was on a Dairiki 899 #1/0 and the deer hair wasn’t all that good, but I tried again on a tube (to see how that works out), and the above fly was much better stacked when it came to the deer hair and the hackle was more even.

In smaller variants this will be great for trout in rivers where you need to attract a lot of attention, so, will tie up some in smalleer (#6/#8) to bring along this summer when troutseason is starting again.

52 Weeks: 5 – Vegetables

Posted on 2 February, 20142 February, 2014 by Håvard Eide

Body: Arctic Fox Orange
Head: Ostrich herl, CDC Green

So: a vegetable, and with a lot of tube flies done the last weeks it had to be a carrot on a tube this week! The CDC might work in water, but it will be pushed out and back, so I’ll see how this one works later.

This weeks photo challenge: macro of a broccoli:

Micro Zonker Tube

Posted on 2 February, 20141 February, 2014 by Håvard Eide

Tail: Wapsi Micro Pine Squirrel Zonker Olive
Body: Hareline Chenille, Wapsi Micro Pine Squirrel Zonker Chartreuse
Flash: 4 strands of green flash
Hackle: Wapsi Strung Schlappen Green/Black
Cone: Future Fly Drainer Disc 8mm Metallic Green

Found this video describing how to use zonker on a tube, so I had to give it a go: I have used these micro zonkers before – the movement of these pieces are great. The pattern is really simple with a strip as tail, a strip wrapped around the body and then some hackle to finish it up.

The rear-view shows how the zonker have been wrapped around the tube:

Front: the green disc from futurefly was the perfect match for this olive/green/chartreuese tube

Baitfish

Posted on 1 February, 2014 by Håvard Eide

Saturday morning and the snow has been coming down for a week straight! These quiet mornings is good for stocking up on some patterns that will come in handy when the spring comes and it is time to get the rod out again after a long winter. Today it is a batch of longer baitfish that I did a SBS on last year, I will also have some that are shorter and only 1 hook length tail, but I’ll save that for later this weekend.

Music for today: Access To Arasaka: “Medway”

Last year I had some great action with these hunting mackerel

Front view:

The bottom is white craft fur with a bit of flash that makes these a great profile from underneath

Month: February 2014

Salmon Bomber

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