Beautiful flies! These small wooly buggers (we call them leeches) also work very well for brown trout and grayling here in Finland, Europe. I always use marabou for the tail but having seen these patterns I think I should give a try to the fur tails... Being lazy, I sometimes tie them even without the hackle - with no impact on fishing.
Very Nice!!!! Are all these Streamer's in the Dick Stewart and Bob Leeman's book " Trolling Flies for Trout and Salmon 1982. If so, is it possile to get this book somewhere? I thing I will start tying the streamers from the top.
thank you i was inspired through this article to tie a fly nearly like this in different colours and it brought me some good fish on our last trip to southern sweden you can read about the tour here and see the fly:
www.foerde-fishing.de/breisen06.html
thank you for the inspiration and in our german balticcoast it works also very well!!!
2 Everybody,
thank you for comments!
2 Kirill,
In general i didnt feel a victim. I knew where I am going and what to expect as it was my ninth trip to Kola.So it took me two minutes to calm :)
Finland's Lapland or Finmark of Norway could be a nice alternative, but from my experience I can tell that I never saw a brownie attacking ear plug fly but just in tundra of Kola. This is really special place worth risking.
Anyway thanks for info about Oulu.
rgds
Rolandas
Do any of you ever use hen hackle tips for wings on your wet flies? I see many on emerger patterns, but I also tie up traditional flies like Royal Coachman, Flight's Fancy, Red Ibis or Yellow Sally with hackle tip wings. They are very attractive and much more durable than quill wings. Nice option to try.
Very interesting...looks very inviting for steelies. You have that Egg Cluster Fly for sale? If so let me know how to purchase. Thanks!
Appreciate your source of good maribou hackle feathers. I live in Anchorage, AK
If you want to see the process in pictures, See: (I wasn't allowed to post the URL, ??) but if you go to Midcurrent.com and the archives you'll find the article. A Google search using my moniker, Buttonwood Bob will turn it up, also.
I use 4 pound P-Line's floro-clear. All the qualities of florocarbon, its a copolymer, and costs a third the price of florocarbon. Note that I encourage everyone to make them, and no one to buy or sell them at $15 a pop.
Dear Rolandas,
I hope you were not too-o-o-o-o frustrated of Russia.
But generally, if you tried to find a less expensive trip, why don't you try Finland in Oulu for example?
At least that's what we do , living in St.Petersburg. It appears the same or even a little less prise.
And you for sure avoid the perfect russian services. And it's closer to us as well as to Klaipeda.
Just in case, we were traveling in French Alps in the summer, we found a beautiful lakes connected by mountain rivers, we got to nearest city, bought the licenses which were claimed nation wide (not the cheapest), and it appeared those licenses are not valid on place we were stayed!!! So why do you so surprised about wild trips?
Cheers,
Kirill.
well done! As a breeder myself, I am pleased to read such a good quality article. Keep it up!
Muddlerman,
thanks. My friend Persson is also quite happy with it.
Kasper
Very interesting article. Makes me want to onwn a fly rod too. Really a beatiful work of art and passion
Kasper,
The Mussel is one great looking fly! My kind of pattern, simple but sublime.
Best,
Muddlerman
nice article overall but the qote "and soon we were in the suit that suits us the best" is one of the greatest i've read.
What a great website with crisp patterns! Keep up the great work.
Happy Easter to all.
Ken
Could you tell me who the champ is in casting with a bait casting reel?
Salt water.....I heard it was quit a long distance.......I don't want to say what it was because I'm doubtfull
very good work,, the images of our fishing dreams......
There was a guy soaking bait, and catching skates, near my home in Brooklyn. He checked his line, and had a shrimp, that looked just like the honey shrimp, impaled on an 8/0 hook. He was fishing in about 50ft of water, in the shipping channel. I've gotta tie some of these, as all my shrimp patterns are pretty beat up. Fluke and Bluefish like these, too. Striper season opens Apr. 15th, so I'll need the honey shrimp by then. Tight Lines, Lars p.s. report from Upper N.Y. Bay
Jesper & Kasper,
Man, you guys have produced a great fly. I really like the style of the fly and the legs are cool man. The Deep honey is smooth too.
all I can say is WOW..... makes me miss home even more....
Paul,
You are right about Connecticut and Rhode Island, I come from Connecticut myself and have made a fly similar to this one and if you send me your email address I will send the pattern to you. Okay :-)
Butch,
It would be great to see your variant. I have sent you an email.
Kasper
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