Fly Tying Archive

Tag: salmon

  • Silver Grey from G.M. Kelson

    Silver Grey from G.M. Kelson

    Silver Grey One of my favorite patterns ever designed for salmon. This time tied with really sparse wing and closer to “classic Finnish style”. Haven’t caught any salmon with it yet but this very fly has given me few brown trouts so I added a photo of one for your amusement. The pattern is pretty…

  • Black Prince

    Black Prince

    The “Black Prince” Major John Popkin Traherne’s flies are recognized by many as the most beautiful salmon flies ever created. Many of them have fullfeather wings which has never been too common in salmon flies. They were first introduced by Traherne’s good friend George Kelson in his articles in Fishing Gazette. When tying a topping…

  • Akroyd

    Akroyd

    Akroyd A famous Dee fly that was invented by Charles Akroyd according to his book “A Veteran Sportsman’s Diary” (1926) in the year 1875. It soon became one of the most used patterns on the river Dee and has been a favorite of fishermen ever since. There is apparently something about the black and yellow…

  • Workshop in Denmark

    Fly Tying Event in Denmark I was very happy when I was invited to be one of the 9 teachers in 2012 Fly Tying Event in Denmark. The organizer, Fly Fishing Federation Denmark, is a very big group of fishermen and they have plenty of experience in organizing events like these. They host the Danish…

  • Mikael Frödin workshop

    Mikael Frödin Now that we got started on the guest fly tyers and tube flies I’d suppose it’s only fair to give the stage to one of the innovative tyers behind the style. Here’s some photos from Sunday at Helsinki Spey Clave where Mikael Frödin was doing a fly tying class. The class seemed very…

  • Lemon & Grey

    Lemon & Grey

    Lemon and Grey Classic featherwing fly that I taught at the latest workshop. Had to make few adjustments to the pattern from Pryce-Tannatt since some of the materials are very hard to get at the moment (like quality Teal flanks) Hope the tyers at the class learned something new about these old flies and the…

  • Banana Fly

    Banana tube fly Step-by-step with Anton Pousar Scandinavian style tube flies are extremely popular at the moment for salmon all over the world. We have guys like Mikael Frödin and Håkan Norling to thank for developing these killers that are fairly easy to tie and fish like nothing else in the water. This pattern is…

  • Britannia

    Britannia

    The Britannia Rare pattern because the wing is made of feathers from the Northern Shoveler duck. The fly itself must have been pretty popular since there are vintage versions of it left today and the pattern was in three major books of the Victorian era. This is a mix of the patterns from Francis Francis,…