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Highland Gem
Highland Gem (Kelson) Not surprisingly another fly from Kelson’s The Salmon Fly. Haven’t been really impressed with the pattern before but I’ve seen few takes on it that opened my mind. I tried to get a bit lower profile like on the William Chinn’s flies I adore. The fly doesn’t really allow you to hide…
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Blue Charm Variation
Blue Charm Variation A bit different take on the famous all-round salmon fly The Blue Charm. This one is pretty small fly in modern standards since it was tied on a #2 vintage hook. Most featherwinged flies you see today on the internet are from 2/0 upwards. It’s kind of misleading since they were tied…
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Klinkhåmer
Klinkhåmer One of my most used dry flies of all time is definitely the Klinkhåmer designed by Hans van Klinken from the Netherlands. Super nice guy I had the pleasure to tie with at a fair in Italy. It has worked especially well for Grayling up in the north. I usually carry quite a large…
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Baron
The Baron One of the legendary patterns from T.E Pryce-Tannat’s book How to Dress Salmon Flies. I took some artistic freedom with the excecution but here’s the pattern as described in the book. Tag:Silver thread and ruby red floss Tail: A topping, Indian Crow and Blue Chatterer Butt: Black herl Body: In two equal halves…
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Lauri Syrjänen Memorial competition 2011
Lauri Syrjänen Memorial fly tying competition 2011 I haven’t had much time for tying lately but a week ago I participated in a fly tying competition here. It was the 5th annual competition in honor of Lauri Syrjänen who was one of the grandfathers of modern finnish fly tying scene. The competition is held as…
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Golden Witch
Golden Witch Golden Witch is a streamer by the legendary Carrie Stevens from Maine. I have some old Mustad hooks that look pretty nice on these CS flies and I’m hoping to tie more of them in the near future. I didn’t “glue” the wing feathers to sets as Carrie did because I like to…