Fly Tying Archive

Year: 2011

  • Short Interview

    A short interview I did for IR Visual Works about fly fishing and tying. It’s in Finnish but I hope the pictures will tell a bit about the story to our followers abroad.  

  • Baron

    Baron

    The Baron One of the legendary patterns from T.E Pryce-Tannat’s book How to Dress Salmon Flies. I took some artistic freedom with the excecution but here’s the pattern as described in the book. Tag:Silver thread and ruby red floss Tail: A topping, Indian Crow and Blue Chatterer Butt: Black herl Body: In two equal halves…

  • Baron Step By Step

    The Baron from T.E. Pryce-Tannatt step by step

  • Salmon Fishing in Kymi

    Salmon fishing in Kymijoki, Finland. Congrats Marko for a nice fish!

  • Sea Trout Fishing in Helsinki

    Some photos from Sundays quest for a sea trout almost in the center of Helsinki. No luck this time.

  • Lauri Syrjänen Memorial competition 2011

    Lauri Syrjänen Memorial competition 2011

    Lauri Syrjänen Memorial fly tying competition 2011 I haven’t had much time for tying lately but a week ago I participated in a fly tying competition here. It was the 5th annual competition in honor of Lauri Syrjänen who was one of the grandfathers of modern finnish fly tying scene. The competition is held as…

  • Golden Witch

    Golden Witch

    Golden Witch Golden Witch is a streamer by the legendary Carrie Stevens from Maine. I have some old Mustad hooks that look pretty nice on these CS flies and I’m hoping to tie more of them in the near future. I didn’t “glue” the wing feathers to sets as Carrie did because I like to…

  • Fly Tying Camp

    The MacGyvers fly tying camp On the last weekend of January we kept the shop closed for the Saturday and headed to Porvoo with the gang that included myself, Mikko Stenberg, Anton Pousar, Teemu Juutinen and Ari-Heikki Rintaniemi. This was our second annual get-togehter where we had rented a cabin and would go there for…