Week 16: Noooo!
Can also be named “nightmare”: you have a dream about the perfect rising trout, that only is taking dry. You open your box and find all your dries weighted down with a tungsten bead….
Year: 2014
Blue & Green short tube
Follow up on tube with a pattern that I have done on a double hook before: the blue/green combination of this makes it a great combination for seatrout. The long hackle gives it a flowing movement in the water that will trigger a bite
A purple/black test:
The green/blue double that the above tube is tied after:
Color Experiments
Another one where I’m just testing out the different colors on a rather large tube.
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
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