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Peter Ross
Peter Ross This is one of the most famous wet fly patterns today. As the story goes it was invented around 1890’s by Peter Ross from Killin located at the western head of Loch Tay in Scotland. The information varies on his occupation from shopkeeper to a postman and a barber but I guess like…
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Glimmerrejen variation
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.
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Perfect Leo Shrimp variation
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.
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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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The Classic Salmon and Sea Trout Fly Compendium
The Classic Salmon and Sea Trout Fly Compendium – Grewcock & Carne This massive book that features basically all published and some unpublished classic salmon flies compiled by Barry Grewcock with the help of Dave Carne was published this summer as a limited edition on a pre-order only basis. It’s mostly a pattern reference book…
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Perch Featherwing Streamer
Perch Streamer proto One effective featherwinged streamer from last summer that needs some tweaks but will gain a place in my fly box once it’s perfected. I’ve never been highly successful with perch imitations on my trout fishing but they have their place on the rotation. Last year I wanted to try out a bit…
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Supertinseli
Supertinseli (variation) We continue with another Finnish classic Supertinseli. Designed by Hannu Pakarinen it has been a favorite for many years when targeting big brown trout in our streams. The idea behind this flashabou streamer is to imitate a wounded baitfish struggling in the surface. Usually most effective when casted upstream and retrieved as fast…
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Hollow Deceiver
Hollow Deceiver When it comes to pike flies I have to admit I like synthetic flies more than naturals. But that’s mainly because the synthetics simply last longer. There’s no denying that natural flies have much better movement in the water and flies like this Hollow Deceiver can be made as light to cast as…