The McIntyre has been pretty popular salmon fly although it was not featured in most of the books from the golden era of salmon flies.
Let’s continue with the Teno series by Erkki Vaalama. Teno 2 features interesting short veilings from golden pheasant tippet that sets it apart from the rest of the series.
Catskill region in America has a unique history when it comes to dry flies. Many famous patterns and tyers originate from the river banks of the Catskill rivers and some of the best known belong to the Dette family.
Teno Series created by Erkki Vaalama(1918-2016) is one of the best known in the realm of Finnish salmon flies. Here we will take a look at the series and start from the beginning with Teno 1.
Getting the slim and wide profile of a Heptagenia mayfly nymph with enough weight has been always an issue and the Clinger & Crawler beads solve this issue better than anything I’ve used in the past.
Keeping on with the pink shrimp theme there is no doubt that Torben Gosch’s Glimmerrejen and its variations have produced numerous amount of sea trout in the past years.
The Perfect Leo Shrimp by Kern Leo Lund from Denmark had a big impact on the way we tie our sea trout shrimps today. There has been of course many realistic shrimp patterns but in my mind this was the pattern that started to make them appear in most fishermen’s flyboxes.
National championship 2016. Many who have followed me for a long time know that I’m a big fan of competition tying especially the live competitions like the Finnish Nationals. The competition has…