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Butcher Wet Fly
Butcher This famous wet fly was originally called Moon’s Fly after a butcher called Moon whose favorite pattern it was. Developed by John Jewhurst the fly was newly named by William Blacker around 1838 as per Moon’s profession arguably as a marketing gimmick. Well the name change worked well as it became one of the…
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Kalkkisten Vaalea & Tumma
Kalkkisten Vaalea & Kalkkisten Tumma We are continuing with traditional Finnish trout flies. I have tied quite a lot of these because Kalkkisten Vaalea has been one of the flies I like to teach in my workshops. It’s pretty fast to tie and has many of the basic components of a classic strip winged salmon…
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Huopana
Huopana This is an interesting pattern from a Finnish perspective as it was designed in Great Britain based on insect samples from Huopanankoski (Huopana rapids), Finland in the early 1900’s. It is one of those early places in our fly fishing history where fly fishing and sport fishing in general started to play a major…
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Pink Bucktail Deceiver
Pink Bucktail Deceiver I’ve been fishing for sea trout quite a lot this fall and the common choice here is different kinds of streamers for them. This sort a miniature version of one of my pikeflies has been on the end of my line quite a lot in couple different color combinations. Bob Popovics’ book…
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Black King
Black King We just published an article on the Pohjolan Perhokalastaja magazine on tying Speyflies in hand by Mikko Stenberg with my photos. I have held on from posting these photos of my own fly because of that article but would now like to share them. Especially the wingset is interesting and differs from most…
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White Winged Akroyd
White winged Akroyd I think this white winged variation is even more popular today than the regular Akroyd we featured before here. It’s a pretty simple Dee pattern but the hackle on the rear part of the body is what sets it apart from most of the traditional dee flies. The most important thing with…
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Alexandra
Alexandra Simple pattern that’s better known as a trout fly and was quite controversial fly early on in the trout streams of England. This version however is aimed more for salmon and I tied it on an antique double hook to give it even more bulk. The dressing is nice and simple but there are…
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Silver Doctor
Silver Doctor This is Kelson’s pattern for the classic salmon fly by James Wright. The photo was featured in the Chasing Silver magazine earlier this year as a full spread. Silver Doctor is of course one of the numerous patterns in the Doctor-series and has been varied countless of times to create everything from simpler…