Had a crazy fishy road trip this summer. Lasse and I were cruising the southern part of Swedish Lapland looking for trout, char and grayling. Besides from experiencing close encounters with hordes of bloodthirsty Laplandic mosquitoes we did find some great fishing as well: Especially in the Kittelfjall region. The grayling was numerous and the […]
Well I finally surrendered. I’ve never been a big fan of the line basket, but lately I found myself getting pissed more often than usual when fishing for sea trout. Wind, loose seaweed, algae and just plain old line tangle seemed to collaborate in an effort to mess up a fair percentage of my casts. […]
Had a fabulous evening tying flies and photographing tying steps with hot shot saltwater fly fisherman, Allan B. Pedersen, tonight. Or… more correctly: Allan did all the hard work while I took the pictures. Allan tied two of his favorite streamer flies and this very tempting dry fly. The flies are aimed at saltwater fishing […]
Sometime back in the late 80’s I came across a saltwater fly in an American magazine. It might have been American Angler and Flytier or Fly Fishing. Anyway… the fly was a pretty simple crab imitation, made with bead chain eyes and glo bug yarn in rather subdued colors. I didn’t have any glo bug […]
I’ve been in a fly fisherman’s feeding frenzy zone lately. I’ve been going to the fjord, casting to sea trout, hooking and landing them. Not exactly routinely… but most days this roughly was the pattern. I felt dangerous… and perhaps I was. Anyway, I had a crazy week and felt rather confident in my own […]
Ulla and I had great fishing on the coast yesterday. We ran into a shoal of large sea trout – that is large for this fjord anyway. I managed to pick three fish from the shoal before we packed up. All in the 20 – 22 inch range (50-60 cm.) The weather was rather husky […]
A short trip to the fjord paid off today. 5 lbs. of silver sea trout grabbed a simple palmer style fly I’d tied just before leaving home. The head cement on the green fly probably wasn’t dry, when the first trout of the day smacked it. It was a hard fighting fish that was in […]
Well the name certainly sounds a bit more interesting than waddingtons – but it can be hard to spot the difference. That doesn’t mean that I’m not impressed with the new articulated shanks from Flymens Fishing Co. I love them. They come in a lot of different types, lengths and colors. And it’s a great […]
The first book in our new series of fly fishing books is completed. Tying and fishing the Booby Fly is now available as a Kindle edition e-book from Amazon.com You can buy the Kindle edition or download a free sample from the book here: https://amzn.to/2WTesvE And here is a link for the iBook version: Tying […]
– getting close… but still no cigars I made a short trip to the river today. Primarily to get out and soak up some early spring light, but also to try out a new fly reel… hopefully with a sea trout at the business end of the line. Well, the trout didn’t cooperate, but […]
