Hook: Mustad 94840 #14
Thread: Sheer 14/0 White
Tail: White mallard flank
Body: Hends Superfine Grey
Wing: 2xCDC White
No-hackle CDC in white/light grey, especially good to tie when you come down in size since you don’t have to deal with hackle or complex patterns. Is a very visual fly for you to follow in a slow stream.
Hook: Mustad 94840 #12, #18. TMC 518 #30
Thread: Sheer 14/0 white
Tail: Soft hackle
Body: Taimen Beaver dubbing, grey
Wing: White CDC
Hackle: Whiting Bronze
A sunday tying session, today with grey and red/brown color combination. I tied up some in #12 and #18, and did a #30 in the end to tie off the family picture above. The #30 is a tying exercise to see if it is possible to scale down to these small hooks from TMC, didn’t come out too bad, the problem (as always with #30) is to find a good hackle that is small enough.
Sunday morning and it is clouded and a fair bit of wind in Oslo today, too much for any dryfly fishing anyway! So, in preparation for the summers expedition to rivers and lakes a bit further north I’m tying up some of the CDC & Deer that I posted the other day. These are all tied on a Mustad 94840 #12 with some variation on colors based on the CDC I have available.
Music for todays tying session have been Pjusk: a ambient, nature inspired, band from Norway that is available on Spotify if you want to check them out.
When I was out in the forest the other day, this fly was the one that the trout really couldn’t get enough of. It is easy to tie, can be varied in size and colors to match whatever you have hatching around you and it catches fish! The pattern is really simple with only dubbing, CDC and deer hair (or the equivalent). The CDC makes this fly come to life on the surface, and it really floats well…..
Hook: Mustad 94840 #14
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Green
Body: Hareline Hare’s Ear Plus Dark Olive
Wing Case: 2 Green CDC with Deer Hair on top
Apply dubbing to the hook
Tie in two CDC feathers and dub in over the thread
Make a loop of the CDC and fasten behind the hook eye. Make sure to make room for the Deer hair!
Add Deer hair on top of the CDC and a small amount of dubbing before tying of.
This is a general pattern that I will have a lot of for the comming summer: I will tie up in sizes #10 to #18 and vary the color between green, white and rusty-red (the CDC colors I currently have)
Saturday was a great day for heading out into the forest around Oslo: 17-18 degrees and the forecast said sun. The forest is very accessible, but for those lakes a bit in you really need a bike to be able to cover some ground in a single day, so about 20km in and I set up on a new lake that I haven’t fished before. First of was the river going into the lake: some small brown trout in the river aggressively going on my flies.
Standing on top of the last little waterfall before the lake, this was my first stop and I could see the trout rising out there: I didn’t stay too long here.
Turn around and river was filled with small trout, good fun, but was too small to keep.
I packed up and headed for a place I had spotted on the map before leaving: a small headland that reached a bit into the lake. As I approached the lake I could see the trout rising steadily and within 2 minutes I got my personal best on dryfly in the forest surrounding Oslo: 400gram of beautiful trout that landed easily in my net. The position I had made it easy to cast on rising trout, so it was a great day with a fair bit of trouts landed and a couple of larger ones that just didn’t want to hook properly. Most took on a CDC & Deer hair dry, but also on mayfly and emerger.
Beautiful trout:
The day was a good mix of sun, summer-rain, a bit of wind and periods of dead-still water. Not too much hatching going on, but some mayflies and midges was observed on the water.
The 4 trout I did take home ended up as night-snack, fried up with lots of butter and served with potatoes and a beer.
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