River Mörrum

Had to great days in River Mörrum with Fly Dressing/Vision boys! We caught around 15 kelts and a clam on a fly. Heres some pics from the trip!

Bauer on the Kings chair

Bergman at work

Bauer is ready for some action

Brunch in the sun

Fish on

06:30

06.00

110cm Kelt

Peter is playing fish

The King

Back in Bucktail... with a twist!

Abouth 15years ago my cat by the name of Orvis pied in my box with Bucktail and I had to trow them away. Bye that time it was all Fox and Temple Dog hair in my flies so I did not bother to buy any new bucktails until two years ago when I wanted some other material than polar bear for building up the wings on my flies. So I'm back in bucktail again. After see Niklaus Bauers stuning Pike flies that he ties with a reversed to get a big translusent fly with lots of movement and with a foundation for all the soft flash material I started the tie in my bucktail pointing forward and the folded back. This technic will give you a light but big fly and that swimms a whole lot diffrent the big bulky fox or TD hair wings that are popular here in scandinavia. The soft fox or TD hair in use with thinner flash materials have tendencie to snug up in the hook and on the leader and you end up loosing half the wing trying to untangle the fly. The Bucktail do not tangle as easy and using with flash materials like Flashabou and Crystal Flash you still got a fly with great volym even in hard curent that won't tangle up so easy. The trick to get a good bucktail flies is of course to buy good quality soft curly summer hair and not the stiff and hard winter hair and not over dress the flies. If you use to much hair the fibers will lock it self and the fly will get stiff, bulky and not swimm as i should. After you tied some flies you will get the right "swung" on them and now you will have a realy good fly that swimms great and will catch you fish. I also tie my bucktails with the Monster Cones from Eumer that add more movment and volym to the fly. So why not try some bucktail flies this season and i don't think you will be disapointed.

Home, Sweet Home River!

-4,3c and the coffe is in the flask and two pairs of long johns are on! Have been waiting from late december last year to start the season in my home river Ljungan. The water temp is just 1,4c so the fish are not moving so much but me and my fishing buddie Mattias K tried some classic spring pools but no fish! We had a nice time anyway in the sun and will try again tomorrow with new flies and fresh coffe!

The Swedish Sport Fishing Fair 2012

The Vision/Eumer/Fly Dressing Team had a great weekend at the fair in Kista. It was fun to meet and greet with fishing friends and other fly fisher! A big thanks also to the students from Älvdalen, Pastorn, Åre och Tobbe that did a very good work in the monter!

Spring fishing in River Spey 2012

Started up the season in the best possible way at Delfur beat in River Spey. It was nice to meet Mark, Grant and the other Ghillies over a cup of coffe in the hut. After a while Malcolm, Graham and the other fishers arrived and then Mark took Alex and me up to Two Stones pool and I made the first cast of the season. Fished down the pool and had one strike on the fly. We the changed pool two times before lunch but no fish for us. After lunch we went to Broom pool and there Alex hooked a 9lbs Sea trout and thats a realy big fish for the Spey. Just after that I caught two kelts in 20 minutes but no Springer! We tried the Collie pool with no result before we quit the fishing for the day.

Day 2:
The second day Alex and I was going to fish the Rothes beat were Alex took a springer a couple of weeks ago. Whe we arrived at the hut the ghillies Mike and Robbies was making us a cup of coffe. Alex and I started to fish below the hut and after 30 minutes fishing I'll had a strike on the fly. Now the wind started to realy pick up and it was difficult to get the line out in the storm. The fish did not like the cold storm any more than we fishermens did so nothing caught in the afternoon.

Day 3:
Again at Rothes I got the Long pool and Town road this morning. After a fishing awhile in Long pool I had fish on! After a nice fight with a strong fish it came off just before neting it! I hade the fish just outside me a couple of time and by the shape of it I could say it was a springer in the weight of 10-11lbs. Then I tryed the Town road pool and there I got a nice kelt after just some casts. We went down long pool again this time i hooked up a bracnh i tought but after some tricks to getthe fly free the "branch" started to swim thorwards me and Alex that have gone down strem to try to loosen my fly see a real big silver fish over 20lbs when it started to fight to get free. The fish started to swimm right up the river so I had no chance to keep the line tight so it come of and need I say that i was realy disipointed abouth that! Fished some more before it was time for lunch in the hut with no result. After lunch Alex had a pull but I did not feel anything.

Day 4:
Back to Delfur again were I meet up with to other Swedes, Hadi and Kent Håkansson from the River Em that was there for a days fishing. Willie dnd I got to start fish the neck of Sourden andd soon I caught another kelt in nice condition. We did see some what ee think was fresh fish but we did not hook up with any of them just had two nice pulls on the fly! After lunch we got bridge pool and broom but no it was a real storm blowing so it was difficu just to stand still and the fish did not like the wind either so we had no offers in the afternoon at all. It was nice to meet Kent and Hadi at Delfur and talk some Swedish for a change when you fish in Scotland.

Day 5:
At saturday Alex and I was back to fish Rothes again for my last day in Spey for this time. We started up in Town road pool but no offers in there so we went down to Long pool were Graham Ritche caught one kelt in the morning but I did not come in contact with any fish at all. After lunch we fished the pools below the hut and the wind did realy pick up again so at 16:00 we quit for the day with out any strikes on the fly.

I want to say a big thanks to Alex and Willie for putting up with me for the whole week! And thanks also to Mark and Grant at Delfur and Mike and Robbie at Rothes.

The Fire Flame... A hot fly for cold water!

The Fire Flame is just a great cold water pattern that I have had great sucsses with the last 5-6 years. It may look like something from a Drag show but it sure will catch fish. The combination of the colours comes together well in the water and it's there the flies will catch fish, not in the fly box.

Tread: Orange

Tube: Fl Orange Eumer

Ribb: Oval Gold Tinsel or Twisted Orange Mini Flat Braid.

Body: 1/2 Mirage Salt Water Flash 1/2 Hot Orange Dubbing.

Wing: A bunch of FL Fire Orange Bucktail tied in forward and the folded back, 2 strands of Holo Fuchsia Flashabou, 2strands of Holo Blu Flashabou. FL Red Fox Hair, 2 strands of Holo Red Flashabou, Blue Fox Hair, Purple Fox Hair, and 3 Peacook Hearls bleeched and dyed FL Red

Hackle: First, a Red Soft Hackle tied in after the red Fox hair. Second a Yellow Soft Hackle tied in after the wing as a collar.

Cheeks: JC dyed Hot Orange

Head: FL Orange Eumer Monster Cone or Cone Head.

I also make a zonker version of this pattern and just change the fox hair against a Fuchsia/Purple zonker stripe and the Peacook hearls against Holo Red Flashabou. I still use the FL Fire Bucktail as underwing.

The Fly Tying Tour in the North of Sweden!

We had a great time visiting three diffrent tackle shops in Sundsvall, Övik and Skellefteå. Bauer, Drugge and myself showed are diffrent tying techincs and fly patterns.