KIS-Fly fishing

Here's a shitty step by step on how to tie a "intruderish" tube fly. Can't tell you if it works or not? Probaply not:). Sorry about the bad quality pics. Tie your thread to the tube: Make a tag/butt with super bright red dubbing: Tie some white bucktail reversed style. Keep it sparse: Reverse it: Repeat it on the other side of the tube and add in some flash: Tie some peacock on both sides. I tie these also reversed as the seem to last longer that way: Tie a collar from yellow(dyed) pheasant hackle: Tie some lead wire on the front section of the tube: Tie some Pearl flat braid or similar to the back section of the body: Tie some Caddis green dubbing to the front section: Tie some white bucktail as a wing the same way as we did the tail: Add some green dyed amherst tail in the mix. Two strands on both sides: Tie in a collar from yellow pheasant: Secure and finish, add some glue and slide in a silver conehead...

What is so addicting about casting a fly line? This is the question I've been asking myself lately. I guess it has something to do with getting better at something you love to do and watching that loop unroll nicely in to the horizon. Or is it the agony of those bad days when you feel like this is the first time you've touched a fly rod and you got that feeling that it can only get better the next time you go out? What ever the reason is, there's just something about casting a fly line and for me especially casting a spey cast with a double hander. The down side to this addiction is that I have lost a lot of intrest in my local trout fishing. I basically only fish a spot where there's very few fish but lots of room to spey cast:) Which is kinda retarded. And most of my pike fishing is all about casting and spending time on the water and not so much about catching fish. However...If (and when) I go to a fishery that really motivates me I don't think about cas...

Hi all, Back home from Panama. Actually I've been back home for a week now but I haven't had the time to write a report. First off I'd like to start by saying my hat is off to all you that chase Tuna year after year. That's one hard fishery! We had a hard week of fishing. Hard winds every night and morning. Cold water and small bait. All this combined made the Tuna stay below the surface most of the time. The good thing was that the fish were there and it is just a matter of time before things blow up! Some calm, warm days and some bigger baitfish and it's on! We saw lots of dolphins and lots of Tuna with them. There was also a healthy amount of inshore fish in the waters surrounding the island. The fish were just so passive that it was almost unbelievable. Well, all and all the trip was an amazing experience. Fishing was tuff as hell and it really tested me as a angler. That week made me look at all the other fishing that I've ever done in a differe...

Hi all, I'm in the process of sorting out my gear for the up and coming fishing season and thought I'd write something about the subject. When I'm going somewhere to fish for species X, these are the things that influence my fly gear selection the most: - How big of a fly I'm going to use ? - How windy is it? - Is it tight quarters or a wide open flat with tons of room? - Am I wading deep, fishing from a boat or something in between? - How big are the fish? From all of those things I try to do a compromise that won't let me down even if condition get worse, but is still enjoyable and fun to use. I personally like to sacrifice some rod power to make fighting fish fun and lose a bit on effiency, but there are some fishery's where this is not an option and you have to be as efficiant as possible to get the fish. Also the thing that I like in my lines is that they have enough power. For most fishing I don't like finesse tapered lines - they a...

Hi all, Sorry I haven't been writing anything lately. The last month has been terrible. Complete chaos at work and the weather has been extremely cold. The result of all this has been a slight case of depression and a big case of fly tying and alcohol drinking:). I've tied all kinds of flies, but mostly saltwater patterns and salmon tubes. Now it's about time to get my shit together and start working on a few articles and also focus a bit more on this blog of mine. Here's a few pics of the flies that have come out of the bench lately.

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 ...