Salmon spiders/wets

The plan this season is to fish more with spiders and wets/wingless wets – I want to explore more than just dries for trout. With a large batch of spiders and wingless wets ready I set out to tie up some larger spiders/wingless wets to fish for salmon as well.

These are tied on #4 & #8 salmon hooks and are tied to target salmon, but will of course be with me as a part of any trout-fishing trips as well!

Keeping it simple and fishing activly with these should (hopefull) produce some results this summer, now we just need to wait for the summer to arrive here up north!

Jock Scott #2/0 for fishing

Posted on 30 January, 201930 January, 2019 by Håvard Eide jockscott partridge salmon

Even with winter upon us here in Norway the season is getting closer, and every so often I get a order of classics to fish with. I enjoy tying these since I know they will swim in a river, chasing silver somewhere in Scandinavia!

When tying for fishing I make sure to enforce the fly to make it as fishable and durable as I can: a bit of superglue to get the but to sit correctly, reverse-hackle the bodyhackle, a few extra turns with well waxed thread to make sure the wing will sit where it is supposed to, and: substitutes for many of the materials.

The body veiling is Swan, Crow is Ken Sawada substitute and I use Kingfisher instead of chatterer.

Tied on Partridge M2 #2/0: http://flyhooks.org/partridge/m2-heavy-salmon-single

Jock Scott for fishing

Posted on 26 January, 201926 January, 2019 by Håvard Eide jock scott jockscott salmon

For the 2019 season I’m tying up some smaller classics to go fishing with, first up is a Jock Scott on a Partridge M2 #1

To ensure it will hold up and fish without breaking up I have chosen to do a wool butt and reverse-hackled the black body hackle. The materials in the wing and body is also substituted and somewhat changed if you look at the original recipies: http://flypattern.org/search?s=jock%20scott

The wing is peacock, swan and turkey, the underwing is a brown and not white-tipped turkey, sides is just a single-strip of wood duck instead of a married section of wood duck and teal. All this is done to create a easy to tie pattern that has all the main parts of a Jock Scott in it, but at the same time doesn’t have a enormous amount of material in it.

Sunturn Flare

Posted on 20 December, 201820 December, 2018 by Håvard Eide salmon sunturn

4 years since this started, and for the 5th time: the 2018 version of the sunturn fly – Sunturn Flare

2014: Sunturn Spey
2015: Sunturn Durham
2016: Sunturn Sunrise
2017: Sunturn Dee
2018: Sunturn Flare

Beer: Sunturn Brew 2014 from Nøgne Ø Det Kompromissløse Bryggeri A/S
Hook: #6/0 Limerick from Cosimo Raia
Inspirational music: Nunatak from Karl Seglem

The Beer have now been stored for 4 years and it has matured very well, this is one bottle I would love to have more of, but I only have 1 bottle left for the 2019 edition of Sunturn Fly.

Traherne: Nepenthian

Posted on 3 November, 2018 by Håvard Eide salmon traherne

One author that I hadn’t tied anything from was Traherne: the gaudy patterns, the massive amounts of (rare) feathers and colors everywhere made me stop shy of actually sitting down to tie anything. But: I needed something fresh to tie, something to tie up that I hadn’t done before, and when I stumbled upon a post in Chasing Silver Magazine I figured I was up for the challenge today.

Learning patterns and styles is important, so to get cracking on Traherne I got out a #5/0 iron and got out some substitute feathers to tie a fishing version of the Nepenthian. There are things to pick on, but it is a fly that I’ll use for fishing, so that is the focus when I tie these. Until 2019 though… I’ll get out the splitcane and put it on the end of a long floating line!

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