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Olive Witch
Olive Witch. This is my favorite modification of Carrie Stevens pattern I’ve done. It’s of course a color variant of the famous Golden Witch that we’ve featured before. Sorry about the quality of the photo, it’s pretty old and slightly out of focus but I’m sure you can see what’s necessary from it. Hook: Long…
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Perch Streamer
Ghost Perch I’m always trying out new materials to improve my flies. One element that I constantly felt was missing from my streamers was translucency. No matter how sparse and hollow you tie a fly it would always be pretty opaque in the water due to opaque materials. Couple years ago I was excited when…
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Bullhead Diver
Bullhead Diver I use quite a lot of Sculpin patterns that use different zonker and muddler head combinations. This one is the latest addition to the line and it differs from the previous ones with having a reversed hook and dumbbell eyes. I usually fish these with quite a short line so castability is not…
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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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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…