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CDC & Elk video
CDC & Elk Brilliant pattern by Hans Weilenmann. CDC & Elk is one that should be found in all boxes when you are going to fish in places with caddisflies. Fast to tie, floats well and has a good low floating caddis profile. Add to that another high floating pattern and you’re good to go…
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Unelmia Onkimassa Podcast
Unelmia Onkimassa Podcast I had the honor of being the guest in the first fly tying episode of Unelmia Onkimassa, which is a Finnish fly fishing podcast. Unfortunately for visitors abroad the podcast is in Finnish so you will not get much out of it. But if you understand Finnish or would like to learn…
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Teno 5
Teno 5 Number five from the Teno-series by Erkki Vaalama is pretty traditional Finnish salmon fly of the era. Only part that is a bit seldom seen is the hackle combo with black and brown hackle, but there are many vintage examples with just the brown hackle also. Tying is pretty straight forward with the…
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Deceiver Diver
Deceiver/Diver for Pike Some deerhair mayhem again. I have featured this type of flies before but wanted to show some progress on tying these. I’ve had the pleasure of watching experts like Andreas Andersson doing these on shows and have picked few tricks along the way. It’s a good reminder also that you should always…
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Teno 4
Teno 4 Continuing the Teno series from Erkki Vaalama we arrive at an interesting pattern and one of my personal favorites. The wing and profile again typical low and sleek as in most Scandinavian harling fly patterns of the period. I tied the wing materials on top of each other and brushed the wing thoroughly…
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Teno 3
Teno 3 This pattern from the series has a slight variation depending on where you take the pattern. I’m afraid my tying of it is not perfect as the few amherst fibers are lost in the wing, they should be tied more as shoulders/horns. But the difference in patterns that I compare from Wanhat Suomalaiset…
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Overworked Kaufmann’s Stone
Randall Kaufmann created Kaufmann’s Stone that has become a standard pattern on imitating large stonefly nymphs. This is one of the many versions I’ve tied inspired by that pattern. I tied and shot this for an article on Pohjolan Perhokalastaja magazine that was about different methods for imitating legs on nymph patterns. Hook: TMC 200R…
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Quill Gordon
This fly named after the legendary Catskill fisherman Theodore Gordon is still one of the most well known dry flies around the world. Inspired by the British dry flies of the period the pattern uses the same components but adds a segmented body made from stripped peacock quill and wings from wood duck feathers as…