Another one where I’m just testing out the different colors on a rather large tube.
Month: April 2014
Blind Eye #3/0 freestyle
Hook: Partridge Bartleet Blind-eye #3/0
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Black
Tag: Lagartun French Tinsel, Yellow Floss
Tail: Golden Pheasant
Butt: Ostrich
Body: Yellow & Black Floss
Rib: Lagartun French Tinsel, UNI-Mylar
Hackle: Spirit River Schlappen
Throat: Guinea
Sides: JC
Wing: Golden Pheasant Tail, Veinard Mallard Duck Bronze Shoulder
I bought some material to start off tying the classic atlantic salmon fly Jock Scott, but I realized that I didn’t have good enough goose shoulders to create a good wing for this #3/0 hook. So this is a freestyle to start familiarizing myself with more classic salmon tying, but not following any particular pattern. I also mix up different styles here, but this is just for practicing thread control and placements.
Front view: I like the profile it creates with the low wing and the JC sides.
Seatrout PBx2
Was out fishing south of Oslo, down towards the Swedish border, and had a couple of great moments! I got my first seatrout in November last year, but that was tiny and barely over minimum. This weekend I got a personal best twice: the one below was the first, 650gram and in good fighting condition. The one above came in on 1150gram and was a good, but short, fight. Both took on baitfish in the exact same spot, a place I will go back to and visit very soon to hunt the next big one
Dust Broom Colors
Hook: Knapek Midge Pupae #12
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Blaock
Tail: Mallard Flank
Body: Fly-Rite Extra Fine Poly Rust
Rib: Sybai Holgraphic Black
Thorax: Fly-Rite Extra Fine Poly Rust
Hackle: Whiting Bronze
Wing Post: Dust Broom in different colors
I always test out different combination, and again today: the dust broom have got some very long and light fibers that needed to be tested out in all color combination to see how they come together.
Pink:
Green:
Blue:
All together:
Parachute dry
Hook: Knapek Wet Fly #10
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Black
Tail: Mallard Flank
Body: Spirit River Rabbit-Tron Western March Brown
Rib: Sybai Flat Tinsel Holographic Black 0.4mm
Hackle: Whiting Bronze
Wing post: Hareline Para Post Dark Grey
One of those that will work under different hatches. The starting point was the dubbing and tinsel that I found in a drawer and that I hadn’t used before. The hook is a wet-fly hook, but it is very light and will make the fly sit nicely in the surface.
Here is one variant with dust broom wing and pearl tinsel: 
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