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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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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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Pro Golden Stonefly Nymph
Pro Golden Stonefly Nymph This spring I got some samples of Pro Sprotfishers trout fly tying materials and did some testing with them while planning the trip to US in the prime stonefly season. I’m sorry for the generic name but I hate naming my patterns especially ones I haven’t fished for years and gone…
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Superpupa
Superpupa Developed by the Swedish fly tyer Lennart Bergqvist in the late 1970’s Superpuppan has become a worldwide phenomenon and one of the best known flies in Scandinavia. This fly is supposed to imitate a caddis pupa swimming in the surface at dark and to make a similar pattern to the water surface. But it…
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Semi-realistic Golden Stonefly Dry Fly
Semirealistic Foam Golden Stonefly dry fly I was fortunate enough to get to fish the Deschutes river this spring when the big salmonflies and golden stones were hatching and tied quite a lot of different kind of large stoneflies for the trip. We don’t have as large stoneflies here in Finland and good stonefly hatches…
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Bergman Wet Flies Tied by Rane Olsen
Ray Bergman’s wet flies tied by Rane Olsen This is such a great feat completed by a Finnish tyer Rane Olsen that I had to share it with my readers. 234 wet fly patterns from Bergman’s books as listed in the Bergman collection by Don Bastian. I have many times played with the idea of…