With the opening of the season just days away my thoughts have turned to flies and which patterns are going to work best - as always the river height and temperature will play their role in choosing the right one!
Black and Red Frances
Snaelda's
If you have fished with me in the spring before you would have heard me say "Fish any fly you want, as long as it's Black and Yellow" this is always a rule of thumb but as we all know Salmon don't always play by the rules!! It would be a boring life if all the flies I tied were only Black and Yellow.
More traditional tubes
Monkey Flies
There is certainly a huge Scandinavian influence on some of the more popular flies we use now and also how we use them, but there is still room for our more traditional patterns. As you can see from the photos, we have to use every trick in the book to fool the fish into taking our flies and wouldn't it be a boring life if we only ever used one!
Templedog style flies
If you have fished with me in the spring before you would have heard me say "Fish any fly you want, as long as it's Black and Yellow" this is always a rule of thumb but as we all know Salmon don't always play by the rules!! It would be a boring life if all the flies I tied were only Black and Yellow.
There is certainly a huge Scandinavian influence on some of the more popular flies we use now and also how we use them, but there is still room for our more traditional patterns. As you can see from the photos, we have to use every trick in the book to fool the fish into taking our flies and wouldn't it be a boring life if we only ever used one!
Nice collection Sean hope to se you during opening week. Tight lines
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