This video shows how to land a big salmon. This guy had a to fight for it….
Posted in salmon, Uncategorized on November 6, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Posted in salmon, salmon flies, vision fly fishing on August 9, 2012| Leave a Comment »
First I have to apologise the radio silence in Nordic Angler Blog. I was on holiday whole july and I had very little time to update the blog. I’m sorry !
Annual trip to Finnmark was cold, wet, windy and we had few nice salmons. The count was not like we have used to have but the fish size was larger. This time we decided to start the trip three weeks earlier than usually and it was a good decision.
Over the hills and there it is…
Camping
Weather could have been better. Most of the time tempretature was 6-10 celcius and it rained quite often. It was essential to have good tents, jackets, etc.
Four guys landed 10 kg, 8 kg, 5.5 kg, 5 kg , 4 kg and one 2 kg. Additon to these my friends got two sea run chars which tasted awesome.
My friends 10 kg salmon. It was a tense fight with a #6 weight single hand rod. Congratulations V-M !
My 8 kg salmon. I landed it with Vision Cult #8 weight / 9 ft single hand rod.
5 kg salmon. This poor fellow was fried and eaten by four of us. Very good dinner !
Another salmon landed by my friend. This one was 5.5 kg
My friend got a 4 kg. This pool seemed to be packed with fish.
The trip was awesome and I can’t wait to get there again next year. What river is it? It is a secret 🙂
Posted in salmon, salmon flies, zonker tubes on April 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Last sunday I visited the annual Finnish Fly Fishing Fair with my fishing buddy. I noticed that Pirkanmaan Perhokalastajat had a water flow device available for testing various flies in different current conditions. The device is very very cool and every fly tier should have one in the basement/garage. Basic idea of the device is that you can test your flies in the current. The device creates a water flow which is circulating around the rectangle shaped box. You can adjust the water flow speed with valves. I made this quick and dirty video to show how zonker winged and hair winged salmon tubes are swimming in the current. The videos were filmed with mobile phone so video quality is not the best.
I have had some suspicions that zonker winged tubes are not suitable for the job but after these tests I definitely need to tie few zonkers for this season salmon fishing trips. Zonker winged tubes seems to be very lively in the water.
I hope you find this video helpful.
Posted in salmon, salmon flies on August 12, 2011| 4 Comments »
One of my favourite salmon fly nowadays is a fly called Swedish Sergeant. Swedish sergeant is originally developed in Sweden by Robert Weiss. Swedish sergeant is one of six flies in the “Sergeant -series”. I tried to google more information about the Sergeant series and the origins of the fly but unfortunately I did not find much information. It would b very nice to get some information about the Sergeant series…so if you have information about the other sergeant series flies please drop me a message 🙂
The fly is widely used in whole Scandinavia; Norway, Sweden and Finland. It is said to be very productive fly in northern waters and it is very simple pattern to tie. The fly was very productive on my latest trip to North Norway. I managed to land one 6 kg salmon with it and my friends landed several other salmons too.
Full size image can be found here. Tie by “Someone”, don’t remember who.
Pattern (variant):
Tag: Silver wire
Butt: Yellow silk
Body: Synthetic dubbing in peacock color or peacock herls. Please note that peacock herls are not so durable than dubbing.
Wing: Yellow squirrel tail hair. Only few hairs are needed. Less is more.
Hackle: Soft light blue hackle. Couple or turns only.
As you can see the fly is quite minimalistic. Usually I prefer very little hair on the wings. It seems to be the best approach when tying flies for northern rivers.
Posted in salmon, salmon dry flies on August 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I tested the Foam Bomber on my latest trip to North Norway and it seems to be working very well. Fly is floating really good and does not soak or sink. One thing to remember is that you need to glue the foam patches together really good so the foam cylinder is solid. Otherwise it will break after few catched fish. That’s what happened after two fish although the fly floated well after some damage.
I got two 2.0 – 3.0kg salmons with the fly which has the red butt. This is approx. 3.0kg fish:
Some damage on the fly after couple of catched salmons:
The same pool provided some good salmons for other fishermen as well. Of course with a bomber fly.