KIS-Fly fishing

Flatwing(ish) I'm not sure if I can call this fly a true flatwing or not, but what I do know is that a fly like this has been kind to me. It's easy to make and very versitale in catching many different species of fish. They can be fished in rivers, lakes and oceans and seem to work for everything that eats minnows/baitfish. There's a shit load of movement in this type of fly. The compination of the bucktail and rooster hackle is unbeatable. No wonder that the fish are so turned on about this pattern. A trio of flatwings with epoxy eyes. You can start off this article with this video:  in Youtube   in Vimeo It's my very first try at making a tying video.  And here's the Step-By-Step pictures: Tie some white bucktail as our tail. Tie it big! Add some flashabou. Tie a long and wide rooster hackle on top of the tail. Silver doctor blue this time. Blue bucktail on top of the hackle. Dub the body with pearl wings and flash. A...

Keeping it in the review mode and next up is the Echo King twohander... The Echo King series of fly rods consists of two 13footers - a 9weight and a 10weight. My experiences are from the 9weight. It has a black finish and deep red wraps on it, which makes it look ageless. I personally appreciate looks like these on a rod. Nice and simple. Snake The reel seat is a standard, black Echo aluminium reel seat and the grips are made from the new and sweet "HD"-cork. The "HD"-cork is very nice to hold on to when your fishing and it takes a beating without falling apart. I think the cork is a major step forward for Echo as I have had some not that good grips on my previous Echo's. Echo man shooting to the moon... The action, well it's... Just what you've expect from Echo = smooth and responsive. A very strong butt section that eases off when you get to the middle. Mix in a authorative, but responsive tip and you got the King rod!! It is a deli...

Sorry for my long brake... I'll explain later... I have been using the new Vision Ace skagit heads a lot this season and thought I'd write some sort of review about them. The heads are white in color with heavy duty loops at both ends. There's also a print at the front loop that tells you the grain weight of the head. Vision sells them with a ready looped T-14 tip that's matched to the head. The heads were designed by a group of two handed fly fisherman that I respect a lot: Antti Guttorm, Mattias Drugge and Tuomas Rytkönen. I really dig your style and casting gents! Tapering on these heads is pretty standard modern skagit head stuff, but I really like the way they engineered the front tapering. It gives you a smooth, but powerful turnover. Just the way I like it!! Actually the front tapering is so nice that this line has become my favorite head for intermediate and sink 2/3 tips and smaller tubes/doubles. The straight, no kinks turnover makes it nicer to use ...

Hi all and greetings from the lovely Gaula river in Norway. Had my first try at the premier on Gaula and it was an intresting week... There was the usual ups and downs of atlantic salmon fishing and the fishing was a stricktly sunk line affair. I was personally a bit "out" because I've never really done this type of heavy duty sinking line fishing before and it was a true learning experience for me. Skagit lines and intermediates with tips we're WAY too light for the flows we fished in so it was sink2/3 to SinkYourAssOff as our go to lines. It was a real university of early season salmon fishing and it was a delight to fish in the same team with the Professor Frode Olderkjaer - a man of 2000++ salmon on the fly. It was very inspiring to see how simple things can be when you know what your doing. He had a very down to earth and simple method of fishing and I learned a lot from him. The total for our four man fishing team was 15 fish, but it was mainly Frode tha...

Spend the weekend a few weeks back with my friends in Särkisalo which is at the southwest corner of Finland by the Baltic Sea. Had a very, very fun time fly fishing for pike, eating mediocre food and drinking lots of beer and red wine. Mother nature was not cooperative with us because the weather was terrible the first two days we were there, but that's okay cause it left more time for you know what... DRINKING!:). Even though our time on the water was limited we had about 30 small pikes in the boat that weekend so it was not that bad fishing wise eather. I really enjoy pike fishing, but don't have any real passion for it - it's more of a pass time then a real passioned sport for me. Still it's the best fishing we got here in southern Finland and that makes me a bit sad... Here's a few pics of the trip.