KIS-Fly fishing

Hi folks! It's that time of the year that there's really nothing fun to do. It's cold, there's snow everywhere and it's very, very dark... I'm getting a bad case of cabin fever here!! The good thing about this is that I have lots of time to tie flies. I've been doing lots of saltwater flies for my up and coming tuna trip and some bigger salmon flies for the start of salmon season on the 1st of June when I'm going to make a comeback to the Gaula. Even managed to tie up some trout flies for my local river. Tying flies is fun and all, but I'm really looking forward for the 1st of  March when we start up for the Pacific ocean and the search for those big tunas begins... Some new salmon tubes For Tuna and what ever is willing to bite!

I've been testing the Airflo's Rage compact shooting head for a while now and thought I'd write some thoughts about it here. As some might know the Rage is a floating shooting head designed to act like a floating skagit head. It also works with short sink tips. I tried my 510gr Rage with several rods including 12'6 #8 and 14' #7 Meiser S rods and Beulah 8/9 switch rod. I also tried several  different leader setups with it, ranging from a tapered mono leader of 18' to a fast sinking 10' polyleader. I fished and casted many different flies with it from a #6 Woolly bugger to a 6" Flash fly. I also used the same rods with other matching shooting heads to make out the differences more clearly. The other heads were: Tactical Steelhead, Compact skagit with a intermediate tip, a DDC Connect and a SGS shooting head from Meiser/Godshall. For me the best setup was the 12'6 #8 S rod rigged up with a intermediate Polyleader and a big Flash fly. This was ...