I never get tired of tying and swinging soft hackle flies, and the Peacock Flymph is as simple as it gets. A pinch of dubbing and a soft webby hackle is all you need. The dubbing can be substituted with real peacock herl, which is beautiful… but slightly more fragile.
Quickguide to adjusting the casting brakes on a Shimano Calcutta baitcasting reel. 5 minutes of your time used on watching this video and setting up your Calcutta, enables you to avoid backlashes and birds nests. Here’s how! This video is on the Calcutta 301D, but the instructions will work for any Calcutta D series reel, […]
Ulla and I are trying our hands on making fishing footage – since we plan on producing a lot of that stuff in this season. Just a day of fun with a couple of cameras, some cool baitcasting tackle, a Chartreuse Salamander Jig and… a bunch of pike. One of these are stealing center stage […]
The name bloodworm refers to several species of wormlike creatures – including some large saline rag worms. This fly however imitates the red midge larvas found in many lakes, ponds and slow moving rivers. This is a very simple and uncomplicated tie, but it has given me trout, grayling and some really large whitefish. I […]
We are going down under the surface in rivers and lakes, to watch a bunch of streamer flies from the fish’s perspective. This underwater footage is filmed over a period of several years in different environments from fast flowing clearwater spring creeks, over slow flowing rivers to lakes of different clarity. Most of the flies […]
I’m have no idea if the fish takes this fly for being a salamander. Point is, though. They do. Pike and large predatory trout so far. Check out the video to see this jig swim under water. The action is unreal :0)
Crossover from muddler fly to jig. Basically a mashup between a Woolly Bugger, a muddler minnow and a jighead. I started tying these on really small and light jigheads weighing 1 – 3 grams (1/28 to 3/28 oz). But now I tie the Muddler jig on heavier heads as well, to be able to use […]
Just a super simple softhackled emerger/flymph style wet fly, that has been a steady producer for me while trout and grayling fishing in Scandinavia. Equally at home in rivers and lakes. Originally I used olive dyed partridge hackle for this fly – now I most often use feathers from the super versatile Whiting Coq De […]
The first fly i ever caught a trout on. I guess I was eight or nine years old, and I didn’t even have a fly rod back then. Just a Black Zulu, 10 feet of mono line and my bare hands. By now this fly has followed me through nearly five decades ;0) The combination […]
Nothing really beats the Bucktail Jig for classic vibe and pure fish catching effectiveness. The flow of natural bucktail will lure fish year round. If I had to restrict myself to one lure for a whole season… fishing for a variety of species – I would choose the Bucktail Jig. Check out the underwater footage […]
