A few doubles for salmon

Posted on 23 August, 2014 by Håvard Eide

The Ken Sawada #6 double salmon hook is one though hook! Once you pick it up you get that trust feeling that it will bring anything as long as something bites! Tied up some doubles today for a salmon trip (more on that later), haven’t fished in this river before, so I’m bringing a little bit of everything. The silver/red-tag is very simple but deadly after trout/seatrout in different sizes so this I will have a couple more of before I end todays tying session

A long templedog wing will make this flow in the water:

A blue-hackled version with a bit more work in it:

Sunray Shadow – with Goat

Posted on 22 August, 2014 by Håvard Eide

The summer is coming to a end soon, but I’m heading out to a river this weekend, so I got myself some Goat yesterday to tie up some sunray shadows. The brown and white are goat while the black overwing is templedog. This is the first time I have tried to tie anything with Goat, but the material feels very good and should make a lot of movement in this fly.

Vaskebjørn on streamer hook

Posted on 16 August, 2014 by Håvard Eide

Hook: TMC 9394 #6
Thread: UNI 6/0 Black
Hackle: Whiting Rooster Saddle Grizzly
Dubbing: Burnt Orange/Rusty Brown/Gill Red A.Jensen Saltwater Dub, The Fly. Co Seals Fur Red

Today was Vaskebjørn experiments: took the pattern up to a #6 TMC 9394 streamer hook and tried out some new saltwater dubbing from A.Jensen. Have not tried these in the water yet, but I like the idea of having the eyes a bit in the front combined with a longer section of the body in bright colors. Will come back with reports on this once I get it wet.

Red sealwool

Gill Red

Burnt Orange

Rusty Brown

More Vaskebjørn

Posted on 12 August, 201412 August, 2014 by Håvard Eide 2546 daiichi fly co uni vaskebjørn wapsi whiting

Hook: Daiichi 2546 #8
Thread: UNI 6/0 Black
Hackle: Whiting Rooster Saddle Grizzly (1 feather used for the fly)
Body: The Fly Co Seals Fur Red/Black dubbing, A.Jensen Saltwater Dub ll White
Eye: Wapsi Bead Chain Eyes

This Vaskebjørn pattern can be tied with or without eyes, but I had to get some eyes on them to see how they turned out. The eyes also give it some extra weight that can be helpful in some situations – considering to tie up this in #4/#6/#8 and with/without a little bit of lead to make some of them even heavier if I need to get the fly down.

First Vaskebjørn

Posted on 8 August, 20146 August, 2014 by Håvard Eide a.jensen daiichi fly co seal uni whiting

Hook: Daiichi 2546 #6
Thread: UNI 6/0 Black
Hackle: Whiting Rooster Saddle Grizzly (1 feather used for the fly)
Body: The Fly Co Seals Fur Red/Black dubbing, A.Jensen Saltwater Dub ll White

This is a well known pattern here in scandinavia for seatrout, but I have never tied it up before. I got a new Rooster Saddle from Whiting yesterday and since I’m heading out for some fishing tomorrow it was time to get this pattern a go. Not quite after the original recipe, but close enough to the video from Eivind Berulfsen. The hackle will give this a very vibrant flow in the sea, and together with the red seal fur it will be a killer!

Month: August 2014

A few doubles for salmon

Sunray Shadow – with Goat

Vaskebjørn on streamer hook

More Vaskebjørn

First Vaskebjørn

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