Why you need bucktail jigs? Well, I am a lure freak, and I love fishing spinner baits, spoons, jerkbaits, crankbaits and any other kinds of lures. I guess you feel the same way. But say, one day a large troll came crashing out from the woods and said. “Ok dude, you can use one lure […]
Craig’s Nighttime – an old classic New Zealand Streamer Craig’s Nighttime is an old classic New Zealand streamer fly. I initially found the pattern in John Veniard’s book: Reservoir and Lake Flies – a book I highly recommend. Years ago on a dark night this large darkish blue fly got me into a bunch of […]
I love fishing for wild brown trout, and right now in the early fall, mornings and late evenings offer the best opportunities for contact with the golden beauties in my favourite local lake. I do hate getting up early – but as often as I can drag my sorry ass out of bed in the […]
With underwater action. Learn how to tie the individual parts for a Spy System Pike and Musky fly. There’s nothing new in tying predator flies on tubes, but this system is super versatile whether you chase pike, musky, bass, walleye, zander, large predatory trout or any other predator. In this video I show you 5 […]
The Spy System. Learn to rig and combine tube flies, cones, popper heads, beads and other stuff to build an extremely versatile lure system, that can be used for fly fishing, spinning and baitcasting. From small trout lures to magnum sized baits for the largest predators anywhere. It’s simple, cheap, versatile and will stand up […]
Underwater action footage with a couple of 40+ inch pike and several swimming spin-fly lures. This is a sneak peek into a new custom lure project I’m working on at the moment. I call it the Spy System. SPY – since they are Spin and Fly at the same time, and system, well because it […]
A couple of days ago I tied a batch of new coloured lures for my Spy system. One of these was a Red & White lure, that I had the opportunity to test swim yesterday. Together with a good friend I was belly boat tripping a stretch of a river, that we hadn’t fished for […]
The last couple of years I’ve had great success fishing hair jigs. Anything from the good old classic bucktail jig to more elaborate rabbit strip jigs and some with a lot of flash and rubber legs as well. For me, the lively materials in many fishing situations seem to outfish more solid lures like jerkbaits, […]
With underwater swimming action. Learn how to make the classic Texas Rigged Worm rig. This is probably the worlds most popular rigs for bass – but equally effective for walleye, trout, pike, perch and other predators.
Tube baits are super effective soft lures, and they work really well for crawdad eating predators like trout, bass, pike, perch and walleye. But in some cases you can increase your succes rate dramatically by adding sound to you bait. Being hollow, tube baits beg to be pimped up in different ways, and shoving a […]
