Kastkurs med Mattias Drugge!

Nu är det hög tid att boka en kurs med Mattias Drugge och lär dig kasta Skagit, Underhands teknik och enhands kastning. För mer info och bokning: www.druggeflyfishing.com

Cascades for River Spey... and all other rivers! Part 1

Now it's high time for fly tying and filling up the flyboxes for the comming season. Been busy tying Cascade flies for my friends in Scotland and also for my self to fish with in River Spey and Dee in March. But these long tailed flies does not only work in Scotland so I will use them in many diffrent rivers this season here in Scandinavia. I prefer to use Bucktail insted of Fox hair for the tail because it don't tangle up in the hook. I also use Zonker stripes as wings for my Cascades because the give the fly a bit more life and volym in the water. On the most of my flies without a body hackle I don't use oval Tinsel or any other materails as rib. Insted I use diffrent Braid materials that I secure to the tube with a small drop of suoer glue and for the dubbing material I always use a dubbing loop to secure the the material. This makes my flies more durable and will not be destroyed after the first fish caught

First out is the Sir Alex Cascade.

Tube: Fl Yellow Eumer Large/Small combo

Tread: Yellow

Tail: Yellow Bucktail with 4 strands of Holo Yellow Flashabou.

Body: 1/2 Silver Holo Braid 1/2 Yellow Dubbing

Hackle: First Hackle a Yellow Soft Hackle (tied in before the zonker stripe). Second Hackle a Yellow Grizzly Soft Hackle (tied in after the wing as a collar).

Wing: Yellow/Black Grizzly Zonker Stripe.

Cheeks: JC feathers dyed Hot Orange

Head: Black Eumer Cone Head


The second Pattern is The WM Cascade.

Tube: Fl Green Eumer Large/Small combo

Tread: Fl Green Textreme

Tail: First a bunch of Fl Chartreuse Bucktail, Second a bunch of White Bucktail with 4 starnds of Mirage Flash on top.

Body: 1/2 Holo Silver Braid 1/2 Devided in 2 parts: First Silver Dubbing and Second Green Dubbing.

Hackle: First Hackle a Fl Chartreuse Soft Hackle (tied in before the wing) Second Hackle a Kings Fisher Blue Soft Hackle (tied in after the wing as a collar) 2 strands of Silver Crystal Flash on top.

Wing: White/Blue with Black stripes Rabbit Zonker Stripe.

Cheeks: JC dyed Fl Chartreuse

Head: White Eumer Cone Head

In the next part of Cascades for Spey I will show two other patterns to try on the Spring Salmons.

EM Silver Zonker

My first fly pattern for 2012 is this zonker version of the old Swedish Pattern EM silver. A realy good spring pattern for Salmon and Sea trout here in Sweden. Many big fishes have been caught over the years on this pattern.¨

Tube: Eumer Fl Yellow Tubing

Body: 1/2 Silver Holo Braid, 1/2 Silver Dubbing in a dubbing loop (I mix Clear SLF, White Seal and Silver WingN'Flash)

Ribb: Oval Silver Tinsel (Optional if you use a dubbing loop)

Wing: Orange Rabbit Zonker Stripe with 4 strands of Holo Green Flashabou on top.

Hackle: First Hackle (tied in before the wing) Higlander Green Soft Hackle, Second Hackle (tied in as a collar after the zonker stripe) Kingfisher Blue Soft Hackle

Cheeks: Dyed Green JC (optional)

Head: Eumer Silver Cone Head or Monster Cone

What the hell is Skagit?

We made this movie to explane what Skagit casting is mainly for scandinavians that heard abouth this way to cast and fish but it will sure work for the rest of the world also... Enjoy!

New York City Urban Fishing

Bauer with his Vision Big Daddy 8,6 in NYC

After the show in Somerset NJ Niklaus Bauer and I had decided to do some fishing before we had to fly back to Sweden again. So why not do some flyfishing down town Manhattan? We booked a guide on the internet and was going to meet him on monday afternoon at North Cove Yatch Harbour. I can say that is was a strange feeling tackling up our Vision rods with the Manhattan skyscrapers in the background when your normaly is use to fish out in the wilderness. At apointed time Capt Joe Shastay arrived with his boat and we jumped on board and headed out on the Hudson River.

Manhattan

Me and a big green lady

Niklaus Bauer with his first Stripped Bass.

We tied on some Sheep Fleece head patterns and started to fish the first hot spot and after just some minutes I had the first strike on the fly but it wouldn't stay on. Shortly after that Mr Bauer caught his first Striper ever on one of his own approven Pike patterns that seams to attract diffrent fish species all over the world. We then left to try some other of the Capt hot spot and soon we where both playing fish in the size around 4-7lbs (1,5-3kg) The bigger ones gave us both some nice fights on our eight weight rods and just playing fish with the Manhattan sky line in the background was one of the coolest things I ever had done. After three hours fishing the sun went down and it startted to get dark on the Hudson Bay but the fishing was getting better and the fishes bigger. After nearly eight hours of fishing we called for the day and went back to the marina and I can tell it was with big smiles on our faces. Totaly we caught 16 stripers and had contact with 50-60 fishes so I was very satisfied with the fishing and also with our Guide Capt Joe Shastay that realy had made our fishing trip in New York a total sucsses even that we did not catch the big ones, this time anyway.

   

Me with a  Striper

Bauer and striper.

Vision in NYC

Manhattan sky line

So if your going to New York and want to do something diffrent than the other tourist do and see New York from the water? Contact Capt Joe Shastay on http://www.nyharborfishing.com/

Från Fluga till Antispinn Möller Bil Uppsala 10/12-2011

On saturday 10/12 it's time again for "Från Fluga till Antispinn" at Möller Bil in Uppsala Sweden. The show opens 11.00 to 16.00 and there will be loads of activites for both young and old people.

Vision and Fly Dressing will be there to show the New Siks rods and other news for 2012.

In the Flytying Corner will names like Niklaus Bauer, Ulf Hagström, the young girl Emma and many more show you how to tie the best flies. I'm going to have my own tying corner by the Vision monter and if you are going there come and talk some flies and Vision gear with me.

Ace Skagit Head and Siks... a perfect combo!

I got my hands on the New Vision Siks 13,4#7 and 490grin Ace Skagit head in october and it was love at first sight or should I say cast! The medium action rod with the line was so easy to cast with and could throw out from small micro tubes on a intermediate tip to a big fat Intruder on a T-17 tip and it is just a #7 rod we are talking abouth. So my first tought was that this combo will be my first choice for nearly all fishing situation this season to come. Of course I will use both shorter rods and sometimes longer rods when needed but I still will have the 13,4 with me all the time. The name Siks comes from that the rods are just a 6 piece rod so it will be easy to take with you when traveling and with both the 13,4 and 15,2 in my trunk I don't need to pay any extra money when I go to Scotland and River Spey in march and saving some money I can buy a nice bottle of Spey side whisky insted.