tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60741745453412528942024-02-20T16:44:48.682-08:00Niklas Dahlin -FlytierA Flytyers quest of giving the flytyers and flyfishers of today and tomorow a chance not to forget about the Amazing heritage from the past.Niklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-52550196495478092072015-03-25T12:49:00.000-07:002015-03-25T12:49:10.899-07:00Sportfiskemässan 2015Sportfiskemässan is Swedens biggest gathering for fishing. This year it was time to go back to Jönköping for the fair, last year it was held in Stockholm. The fair is getting bigger and bigger every year, and this year was off course no exception. I have been responsible for being the one to put together the flytyers row for a few years now, lots of work but a task I enjoy very much. For this year me and my friend Anders Grünning (se photo below) went down early Wednesday to build up the area.<br />
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We also got help from two of our friends, David Stenström and Markus Hoffman, thanks guys.<br />
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We had a nice workday without bigger problems, might be that we have done it a few times by now so the routines have been set. Above a picture of me and Anders mounting the scenery. When the evening closing up on us we were done and ready to leave the fair area to meet up with the other tyers at the hostel, Sjöhaga Pensionat. We try to arrange so that we live together so we really can meet and take care of each other, its like having a second family. We had a pretty calm first eveing as we were going out fishing river Baltak on the thursday. Below a nice picture of my friend Markus Hoffman taking the first trout of 2015.<br />
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We had an amazing day with really nice whiter and most guys catching fish. Well yes even I caught a nice fish. Below a picture of me trying to get some attention.<br />
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We finished the day at the afternoon to meet up at the hostel again, now time to meet more of our fellow flytyers. For this fair we had gathered 22 tyers, from Norway, Sweden, England and Ireland.<br />
Thursday evening we had our annual Sjöhaga hostel Peasoup, panncakes and Punsch to go with that, as usual very nice. After the dinner our Norweigan friends had made a nice little challenge for our friend from the north, the hillbilly the wicked Stefan Larsson. Stefan is awesome on whiskey, I must say knowing nothing about whiskey but how to get a headache, I was really impressed. He could by smelling and looking say pretty much all you needed to know about the whiskey, he almost nailed the name of it, almost... next time Stefan :-)<br />
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The evening continued and we had a great time, Richard and Eivind took care of the entertainment<br />
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Well of to bed, we all had a long three days of tying flies at the fair. Below a picture of me concentrating to start up the tying.<br />
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Ulf Hagström using his nose to hold his flies.<br />
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Flytyer extraordinaire Mr Barry Ord Clarke in action.<br />
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Well the weekend continued at the same speed as above, I can only speek to myself but I had ireally good time. Meeting some new aswell as catching up with some old. A big thanks to all involved.</div>
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As you all proborably understand, its impossible to make such arrangements as this without help. I want to take this moment to say thank to the ones responsible making this event possible. Thanks Niklaus Bauer at Vision/Flydressing, Stephan Nielsen at Sporting, Mark Hamnett at Partridge of Redditch, Markus and Mårten at Hökensås and offcourse Agneta Brunell at Sportfiskemässan.</div>
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Now we´ll rest for a few weeks and then start planning for Sportfiskemässan 2016.</div>
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The first fly I made for the collection was an Atherton No:1...<br />
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Hook: Allcock W170 #12<br />
Thread: Textreme 8/0 Black<br />
Wings: Medium Dun hen tippets<br />
Tail: Medium dun cock cape fibers<br />
Body: Very light fox belly fur<br />
Rib: Oval Gold rib<br />
Hackle: Cock cape Light Cree<br />
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... but I felt I also needed to add my favorite Atherton fly aswell, the Atherton No:5. This fly is the most common in John Atherton serie of flies.<br />
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Hook: Allcock W170 #12<br />
Thread: Textreme 8/0 Black<br />
Wings: Woodduck flank<br />
Tail: Cock cape Cree fibers<br />
Body: Hares ear<br />
Rib: Oval Gold rib<br />
Hackle: Cock cape Cree<br />
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This fly has given me my finest dryfly fish, I took a really nice trout last summer on a size 14 Atherton No:5. The fly is slightly buggier than most common Catskill style flies, I like it.Niklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-88540367110789769762015-03-08T15:40:00.003-07:002015-03-08T15:40:44.033-07:00Mr Red Quill
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of my favourite Catskill Style dry flies, one of the most beautifulll flies there is, asccording to me anyway. This fly imitates the male version of the Ehemerella Subvaria, and it was originated in 1933 by another Catskill heroes Mr Art Flick. A somewhat juicy detail is that initially he claimed to be the first to
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">In
H.G. McLelland’s book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How to Tie Flies
for Trout</i> (complete title <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Trout
Fly Dresser’s Cabinet of Devices or How to tie Flies for trout and grayling
fishing</i> (1898) as it happens, you can read: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">“Another
kind of quill is that obtained by stripping a long hackle or saddle feather of
its plume on either side. It makes a very natural looking body, which, so to
speak, tapers itself automatically in the forming; the quill used being
tapered, and so the joints of the body becoming wider and thicker as the
winding proceeds from tail to shoulder. “A friend, to whom my first
acquaintance with this material was due, makes a very beautiful red spinner of
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Niklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-1499319754868637902015-03-08T11:15:00.002-07:002015-03-08T11:16:56.207-07:00Mrs Hendrickson<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Hendrickson
is proborably one of Americas earliest imitations of the Ephemerella Subvaria.
the imitates the female version of the species. A problem for the fly fisherman
who likes to match the hatch is that you need two flies to be able to
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writes in his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Streamside Guide 1969.. </i>‘‘As
a rule, the male will emerge on one riffle, the female on another, and trout
are usually selective to such an extent that they will only take a Hendrickson
if they are feeding on the female, or a Red Quill if the opposite is the case….
Often I have been unable to raise fish to a Red Quill, changed to a
Hendrickson, and had good luck. To prove the point, I have again changed to the
Red Quill, have not been able to raise another fish, and have again gone back
to a Hendrickson, and again caught fish.” </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the fly is no less than Theodore Gordon protage, Roy Steenrod from Liberty, New
York. teenrod was taught tying flies by Theodore Gordon, Gordon gave Steenrod
not only a vise and fly tying lessons, but also inspired him to give his skills
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his first Hendrickson in 1916 after a fishing trip with his buddy A.E
Hendrickson. The fly proved very successful, but he had not given it a name
yet. Later A.E asked Steenrod for the name of the fly that they had been
fishing so successfully, Steenrod looked at him for a while and replied: “ It’s
a Hendrickson”. In that moment he most probably didn’t realize that this fly
would become the best imitation of the Ephemerela Subavaria, and also one of
the most popular American dry flies ever. It is most revealing that through the
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his Hendrickson in various colour shades as to imitate different upwinged
flies, just like Gordon his teacher had done with the Quill Gordon. When fly
fishers speak of Steenrod’s fly today, they mean the Hendrickson, sometimes
also named Light Hendrickson. This is to distinguish it from the Dark
Hendrickson, a variation (not by Steenrod) getting popular later on. The Dark
Hendrickson is tied with a body of dark grey fox belly fur.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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there has always been some lack of clarity around the naming of the
Hendrickson. Well-known Preston Jennings for instance spoke of the Little
Hendrickson aiming at the male Ephemerella Subvaria. This of course arose some
confusion since today we are used to only name the female Hendrickson. Jennings
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Niklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-85353626660219383902014-05-30T01:57:00.002-07:002014-05-30T01:57:49.364-07:00The Big ones is hereGodmorning my friends.<br />
Not far off now until I once again stand by the shore of Stavre in north of Sweden. I have been there in the beginning of July as one of the staff of Swedish magazine "Flugfiske I Norden" for the last three years now. I could blame the fact of being among the staff, or the weather, lousy flies etc... ok I admit, I have not catched a single decent fish there, offcourse some smaller fish, but not those bigger ones that we know are there. This year I decided that I will be better prepared, and give the evening fishing more time, I wont give up until I get a decent one. So I have now started to build up my boxes for the event. As I most tie classic stuff I don't have many Danica patterns, so that one is kind of a puzzle for me. I saw my friend Joe Bonasera tying up some extended bodied flies with deerhair thought I should give that a go as I thought it looked interesting. <br />
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I tied the body on a needle, attached three long fibers from a moosemane then I took white dee hair and tied it in by it tips at the point where the tail would end. Worked my way forward just as you do with foam for the "Mohican Mayfly", first attach deerhair, fold back and some thread under, fold forward etc. When done I took Deer Creek Diamond Flex UV resin and covered the body with that to make It slightly more durable. A set of Adams wings so I have something classis on the fly, a Cree parachute hackle, and some Squirrel SLF as thorax. <br />
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I actually liked the result, with time we´ll see if the fish likes it as well.. I wont make many of them though.. it wasn't easy to get the tail right.<br />
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NiklasNiklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-38158829390477413372014-05-20T12:32:00.000-07:002014-05-20T12:32:27.514-07:00Royal Coachman Fanwing meets FMAO film crew.Evening.. Here´s another fly from the same session as when we filmed the Quill Gordon. I can tell you one thing about filming, it isn't easy to get the words right. I am pretty pleased anyways as it´s my first time doing it and I am deeply impressed by Eric and Johannes job with their cameras and Eric´s hours he put down on cutting and getting suitable music to the clip. It´s like the Quill Gordon in Swedish but hopefully some of the pictures talks to themselves.<br />
Too see the clip just follow the link, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IKzCFQP-mw&list=UUD0vzHjKxXVYbQ53uqC-IxQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IKzCFQP-mw&list=UUD0vzHjKxXVYbQ53uqC-IxQ</a>.<br />
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NiklasNiklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-70567135909215516562014-04-06T13:47:00.000-07:002014-04-06T13:47:30.001-07:00Quill Gordon meets FMAO crewEvening my friends.. It just struck me.. Last fall my buddies Eric and Johannes from FMAO productions released a filmclip of me tying a Quill Gordon... But I have forgot to share it here with you guys. Some of you might offcourse already have seen it but anyway..<br />
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I am really proud of being a part of this, not so much for my part of it, it was my first time behind a camera so lots of improvement needed. But I must say that they really captured the feeling of flyfishing and flytying with the intro. The intro is in English but the tying is on Swedish, but the pictures talk for itself quite good I believe.<br />
Follow this link..<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrd1SmSyJxw" target="_blank">Quill Gordon</a><br />
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NiklasNiklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-56908431169045135922014-03-30T12:04:00.002-07:002014-03-30T13:08:33.051-07:00Mörke John -wrapping hackle and finishing a fly<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Evening dear followers, today I played with a pattern called "Mörke John" ("John the dark"). The fly is a variant of the more famous "Europea 12", same fly but with different colour. The fly "Mörke John" comes from the vise of Harry Strandberg who comes from the northern part of Sweden. Harry is unfortunatly no longer with us, he passed away a couple of years ago. My friend Leif Milling has written a nice pieca about his friend Harry in his book "Länge leve flugfisket" (Flyfishing, may it last forever), Harry was actually one of the first professionell flytyers of Sweden.</div>
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While tying this fly I decided to take some pictures to tell my friends how I do the hackle and how I finish of a hackled fly leaving a decent head. As we all know this information is more for the eye than for the fish... I dont either think the fish cares if theres a bump at the head or if we have some hacklefibers sticking out here and there. But I do belive in the satisfaction a really nice fly in my flybox gives me.</div>
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To get an nice and straight hackle on
your dry flies can sometimes be an pain. Well offcourse thereś a
question of the quality of the hackle, but not just that. Some really
nice hackle can have stems that are not entirely round and sometime
the stems are kind of thick which also can make it harder. Well
anyway, here I want to share some thoughts of mine that has helped me
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I use the best hackle I can get, I use
Whiting, Charlie Collins and I also have a Keough that was awful
until my friend Roy Christie dyed it for me, after that the stems got
softer and by that the hackle got easier to work with. When I started
to tie I had som Indian capes, I have heard that you can find decent
quality, but the nice ones that I have found dont have the length of
the feathers in the sizes I tie. So I have given that up and I stick
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Well then, let me try to explain,
start with making sure that you have a nice and even foundation,
bumps can make your hackle slip. Tie in the hackle in and set it into
an 90 degre angle towards the shank of the hook. Make sure that the
hackle has a bare stem the first wrap, that will help us to not get
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Wrap the hackle in tight turns toward
the eye of the hook. Secure the hackle with three hard turns of your
tying thread, wrap the thread towards the eye of the hook.</div>
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Grab the hacklepoint and fold it
backwards, wrap another three tight turns of thread but now backwards
away from the eye of the hook. By doing this we have locked the
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Here is how our wall looked, really nice with some really cool pictures taken by photografer Svanthe Harström.<br />
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We had a really great crew in the both, we were lead by the boss William Moberg Faulds aperson who puts loads of efforts in running the magazine, more than anyone can imagine. We had Mr and Mrs Gullstrand helping us out with selling subsciptions and other stuff. Lasse Hallberg our editor, wow he was one great salesman, calm and full of knowledge I was really impressed by him. Svanthe Harström a really funny guy, also a great salesman and ambassador of the magazine. Not to forget Joakim Blomkvist, Christer Holmberg who also did a great job during the whole weekend. We had some other guys aswell helping out parts of the weekend, Mikael Åkerlund for example. We got 50 new subscribers, and several of our subscribers who extended their subscription for another year.<br />
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Here is me caught in action by another photografer, Joakim Blomqvist.<br />
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I concentrated on tying Catskill style dry flies, here my Variant of the legendary Quill Gordon, I call it the Rough Gordon. I really love this one, appealing for the eye aswell as for the tyer.<br />
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Also whipped up a batch of Dark Cahills. I had one of my newly founded buddies Jan Johansson joining me during the whole process in detail of making one of these puppies, and boy itś cool to see that he in only a few days after that session has improved his Catskills loads. Offcourse he got the fly to bring home as a momory of our session. I really enjoy these moments when tying at fairs when you get to meet poeple with a genuin interest.<br />
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Also found some time to tie up some orders on my Steel Blue Quill. Itś great to after a while of tying 15 minutes flies just get crazy in making a batch of 3 minute flies :-)<br />
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Also made a batch of Gunnar Johnssons Kneckestorparen for my own fishing, I have never tried it but I really like the idea of this fly. <br />
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A sad thin happened while we were buildning the tyers row, while my friends Anders Grünning and Markus Hoffman helped me out building the tyers row somebody breaked in to Anders car and stoled Markus bag containing a whole winters production of display flies and flies that he was supposed to be selling at events during 2014, I dont understand why there are people out there who has the need to do stuff like this, sorry for your lost my friend. If any one see a batch of really ice wooden boxes with flies for sale by suspicious people, dont hesitate to contact me. Another friend Eric Andersson lost his camera at the fair aswell...<br />
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Next year the fair will be held in Jönköping, south of Sweden. Weĺl see if I will be int the both of the magazine or at the tyers row. Havent decided yet.. <br />
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Over and out<br />
NiklasNiklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-91127662211306105272014-02-24T14:37:00.001-08:002014-02-24T14:37:35.836-08:00Out of my comfort zoneA good thing now and then is to work slightly out of your comfort zone, both in real life and when conducting your hobby. I do have a love/hate thing with tying flies with slip wings. I kind of get them right sometimes, well that isnt good enough is it... So tonight I was on training camp.<br />
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The pattern I played with is a really old pattern, a Red Quill. Well yes the same name as Catskill style dry fly by Art Flick. The fly was first tied as a wet-fly in 1803 by an English tyer Thomas Rushworth. The fly is later mentioned as a dry-fly by no other than F.M Halford. Halford writes that "the fly is one of the sheet anchors for the dry-fly fisherman on a strange river". So, the pattern has some serious experience catching fish.<br />
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I managed myself to tie three of these, It took some time but it was worth it, I got pretty satisfied with all of them. I choose the fly because I promised to send my buddy Chris Sanford some "Halfordian" flies to be auctioned of at a charity event on the Test later this spring. Hopefully they will ride a riffle on the Test, maybe at a one of Halfords favourite spots.<br />
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Over and out<br />
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<br />Niklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-49755500295478839652014-01-13T13:18:00.002-08:002014-01-13T13:18:31.094-08:00PreparationsWell.. Not long til itś time to start packing for the best event of the year, British Fly Fair in Stoke England. I have been tying at this event several times before, it was actually my first tyersrow. This year I managed to get my fiance to come with me aswell, exciting to see if she appreciates the people and atmosphere as much as I do.<br />
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I have wanted to make some nice display frames to bring to events, to show a selection of Catskill flies in a nice way. When working with dry flies it isnt that easy though, there are not that many frames suitable to hold a dry fly. Atleast I have had problems getting frames with a decent look. So this year I took the time to buy some frames that I liked, and then I rebuilt it to fit my fry flies. And I have spent a week or so to tie the flies on old size 12 Allcock handmade hooks, the real deal.<br />
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And I must say... I am quite satisfied with the result..<br />
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And a close up on the flies<br />
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<b>Conover</b><br />
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<b> Dark Cahill</b><br />
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<b> Deer Hair Coffin Fly</b><br />
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<b> Delaware Adams</b><br />
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<b> Royal Coachman Fanwing</b><br />
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<b> Red Quill</b><br />
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<b> Quill Gordon</b><br />
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<b> Whirling Blue Dun</b><br />
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There is also a March Brown and a Ginger Quill that I forgot to take photos of, sorry :-).. I made three frames that I will bring to the BFFI, so if anyone is interested, just tell me...<br />
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Over and outNiklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-16273580084604747032013-12-23T13:30:00.001-08:002013-12-23T13:30:56.597-08:00Grey Fox Variant<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One of the most significant characteristics of the
Catskill style dry flies is the split wing of wood duck. There are, however,
really nice patterns in the genre without the magical wing of wood duck. Here
we will learn a little of one of those patterns, one of my personal favorites,
the grey fox variant. The pattern was created by Catskill celebrity Art Flick. The
fly was of what I heard one of the flies Flick had closest to his heart. Flick
tied the Grey Fox Variant to imitate the green drake in his beloved Schoharie
Creek. He says in his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Streamside Guide</i>,
“So far the most effective fly to fool large trout feeding on natural green
drake is a very large grey fox that has been tied with good stiff hackles”.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Many of those familiar with the variant patterns think
that it was Art Flick who originated it however that is not entirely correct.
Flick learned of the pattern by his master Preston Jennings, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Book of Trout Flies</i>. Jennings’s book
tells us that the variants originally came from an English tier, Dr William
Baigent. So we could say that Baigent originated the pattern, Jennings
discovered it and finally Flick made it known to the modern world by his book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stream side guide.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I meet the variant for the first time in one of our
Swedish fly tying legends, Lennart Bergqvist´s book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Flugbindning på mitt sätt (Flytying my way)</i>, Bergqvist writes that
his friend Paul Jorgensen told him to tie some of the variants for an upcoming
trip to the Catskills, he didn’t like them at first but after a while he
discovered it as a great attractor pattern. At this time I was a beginner
within the world of fly-tying, and this fly had it all, I loved it´s appearance
and it was fairly easy to tie. I tied loads of these and after a while all my
flies had bodies of stripped hackle stem. Actually this fly was the one that
got me interested in the Catskill style dry fly. I use these flies on both
trout and grayling, I like to tie them really small for the grayling, my
favorite is a size 18 gray fox variant, and the grayling love them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I tie my gray fox variants with a slightly shorter
hackle and tail than what Flick did; I believe that the fly is better balanced
this way. Flick mixed light ginger, dark ginger and grizzly for hackle but I
used coachman brown mixed with grizzly, mostly because I don’t have dark
ginger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fish the fly as free drifting
as possible, now and then I make it move that can sometimes trigger the fish to
strike, a great fly to use when there´s low activity on the surface. As some
will notice I use a different way of hackling this fly than what most
traditional Catskill style tier’s do, I tie in the hackle at the front and wrap
it backwards, finishing the fly by securing the hackle with the thread. This
way I belive that I get a slightly more durable hackle , this way also give the
fly a neater head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">An important issue with making flies with hackle stem
bodies is that you need a nice and even foundation for the body. I use Textreme
8/0 that is thin, strong and I can easily get it to lie flat on the hook. When
preparing a lighter shade hackle stem for the gray fox variant I just rip the
fibers from the stem, but when working with hackle stem of color, like a
natural brown/red hackle, I burn the fibers away in a mix of bleach and water.
If you rip off those fibers some of the colors also disappear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This is what you need to tie a Grey Fox Variant, my
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Hook:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Partridge SLD #12-18<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Thread:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Textreme 8/0 White<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Tails:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Spade hackle fibers Coachman Brown<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Body:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Stripped hackle stem ”Ginger” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hackle:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Cock
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Tie in your thread, start 1/3 down from the eye of the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Pick out 8-10 nice stiff spade hackle fibers as tails
and tie them in, make sure they stay on the top of the hook. The tail need to
be 2 times the length of the hook. Wrap the thread up to where you tied in your
thread.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Tie in the stripped hackle stem by wrapping your
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Wrap the hackle stem in tight turns towards the point
where we tied in the thread from the beginning. I try to finish the hackle stem
under the hook, secure it with a couple of turns and make sure to cut the
excess close to the body to avoid too much bulk.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Measure the length of your hackle feathers, 2-2,5 the
hook gape. Tie in both of the feathers just behind the hook of the eye. I tie
it onto the hook with an X winding which leaves the feathers in a 90 degrees angle
to the hook. I wrap the brown hackle first because of that I make sure that
that feather comes first. Cut excess when done. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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end the feather at the same spot as the brown hackle that will give you
unnecessary bulk. Now make sure to spin your bobbin, we don’t want a flat
thread when working the thread through the hackle, which will mess up the
hackle. Now wrap your thread through the hackle, again a good tension on the
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Niklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-51404534567029922712013-11-08T12:42:00.001-08:002013-11-09T00:26:49.143-08:00Something differentFinished a frame this evening that have been in my mind since past midsummer. The frame was built in July, I have known all along which fly I wanted to frame so I have been looking for a suitable background picture and a few weeks ago I finally found it, my buddy Per -Anders Nilsson posted a picture on Facebook of a really nice caddis so I asked him and luckily he let me borrow the picture for a couple of frames. <br />
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The frame is not a boxframe from the beginning, it was hard to find a nice frame so I gave up and bought a nice frame that remade as a boxframe. Some work but totally worth it.<br />
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A close-up on one of the flies, my Streaking Quill off course tied on a sexy Partridge SLD. This fly started me up as a flytyer, has since it´s birth been a dear friend of mine. <br />
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I made 2 frames this evening to see how my idea would work, I´m pretty satisfied and have decided that I will make 10 of them no more, no less.. So now I need to get my but away to buy some wood:-)<br />
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<br />Niklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-53591856896114780852013-11-03T11:04:00.000-08:002013-11-03T11:04:06.627-08:00Halloween tyingSwapping flies is something I strongly recomend all tyers out there to take part in. It´s a great opputunity for you to evolve as a tyer. One thing though.. dont wait too long to take the time to sit down and actually tie the flies, to many times I have signed up for swaps and managend to get in trouble and have to sit fo a whole day and tie swapflies. Today was one of those Days...<br />
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First 14 flies for a midgeswap, and then 8 flies for a wetflyswap... Well now I´m almost done by now.. <br />
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For the Classic wetflyswap I wa supposed to tie the Butcher, but to honour Halloween, I tied the Bloody Butcher instaed.<br />
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Niklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-21698621535336215652013-10-14T14:04:00.000-07:002013-10-14T14:04:31.423-07:00IrresistibleSome time ago when I was messing with flies from Harry Darbees book <em>Catskill Flytier</em> I stumbled on a interesting pattern called Irresistible. Tied a couple but I didnt have the proper material for the tail and the wings, I hadto do it with deer hair which isnt any good for that, deer hair has too much air in its fibers so it just gets messy. The other day Igot a piece of White-Tail deer body sent to me from a over sea friend, Jack Fields from Central Pennsylvania (thanks Jack). And what a difference it made.<br />
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The hardest part of these flies is that you need to tie the body first and then the wing, it gets kind of crowded. On this fly the wing was mounted slightly to long toward the Eye of the hook, I will try to make one more proper later on.<br />
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<strong>Irresistible</strong><br />
Hook: Partridge SLD #14<br />
Tail: White-Tail deer body<br />
Body: Natural Deer<br />
Wing: White-Tail deer body<br />
Hackle: Dark Rusty Dun cock <br />
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In the book <em>Catkill Flytier</em> you can read "Originated by Joe Messinger. Joe sent his fly to Ken Lockwood in the hospital. Ken, an outdoor columnist, said, "I havn´t used this one, but it sure looks Irresitible" from there got its´name. <br />
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NiklasNiklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-77867365287055490782013-10-13T13:52:00.002-07:002013-10-13T13:52:25.899-07:00Messing with a classic
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Theodore Gordon’s Gordon Quill, proborably more known as Quill Gordon is
one of my absolute favourites, to tie and to fish, both equally important. This
fly work fantastic just as it is but during a fishing session I noticed that my
way of fishing needed a slightly more buoyant Quill Gordon. I considered the
fact of trying to become a better caster or a fly fisherman but came to the
resolution that it was no point of trying that. So I decided to mess with the
Quill Gordon and give it a body hackle that would give the fly longer drifts,
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Normaly a body hackle takes away a lot of the body material effect. To
prevent that from happening I decided to peal off the fibres on one side of the
body hackle. This and the fact that I wound the hackle quite sparse gave the
body that nice look only a stripped peacock quill can make. Another problem
that I thought I could stumble on was the fact of that the hackle could slip on
the quill body, I solved that by adding a thin layer of clear super glue before
wrapping the body hackle. Finally<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">Besides from the fact that this fly works, I actually sent a sample of
the fly to the Southern Appalachian Fly tying contest 2011, It gave me a third
place. There’s off course a lot to say about competing with fly-tying, but I’m
really proud about it.</span> <span style="font-size: small;">The one sent in for the Contest had a natural coloured bydyquill and hackles from a dark dun cock neck. The one shown here has a dyed brown quill from Polish Quills and hackles from a grizzly/cree coloured cock neck. The fly is tied on a size 14 Partridge SLD.</span></span></div>
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Niklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-89187953669693808112013-09-29T12:20:00.001-07:002013-09-29T12:20:33.583-07:00FreestylingThe best time together with the wise is sometimes when you are freestyling,or trying out thoughts developed in ones mind. Today I forced myself to sit down and do just that, have had some trouble to find the mojo for tying and thought that this could get me back, and yes it feels like it worked. A while ago I read an article about the Adams in "Fly and tie", an article written by my friend Ulf Börjesson. You could really smell how much he loves the fly Adams, as I also love the pattern, Reading the article got me thinking that maybe I would whip up some Freestyling Adams for my friend, just for fun offcourse. <br />
My thoughts the last few Days was to make a different Adams, there are The Parachute Adams, Irresitible Adams etc.. hrm.. I have never seen a Quill Adams, well folks here it is..<br />
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I Think that it turned out pretty nice, in fact I think it´s awesome :-)<br />
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Hook: #14 Partridge SLD<br />
Thread: Textreme 8/0 "Black"<br />
Body: Polish Quills "Natural" sealed with Deer Creek Diamond Fine Resin<br />
Hackle: Coachman Brown/Grizzly<br />
Wings: Hen cape tips<br />
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Niklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-13399574046945436982013-09-10T14:26:00.001-07:002013-09-10T14:26:55.337-07:00Bracken ClockFinally I found some time to hit the vise tonight, I got my promotion hooks from Partridge last week and I have wanted to get my sticky ones on the hooks for several days now. Unfortunatly I had to use the nice weather this weekend to sort out some stuff on our house, you know some of those "will do later" kind of things. <br />
A fly that have caught my attention this year is a older North Country fly, The Bracken Clock. I got introduced to it by a friend on facebook, Bengt Andersson, he and his friend have caught loads of fish on it, so offcourse I had to try it out. From pictures I have seen I thought that the fly had a solid peacock body, but a couple of weeks ago I saw a Picture in an old Veniard book and the body on that one was made by a red thread and peacock herl. So I had to try one of those on the Partridge Spider Hook, I used size 16 as I Think that size will be great to try on the Grayling in Gysinge later this fall.<br />
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Well I am still slightly confused by the background of the fly, I will get back to the blog to tell you all if it worked or not and hopefully with som more info about the fly. If anyone of you guys have some info, please let me know.<br />
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NiklasNiklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-31196864141434273722013-08-19T13:35:00.001-07:002013-08-19T13:35:45.999-07:00Gone Fishing... soonEvening my friends<br />
On wednsday afternoon I will go up North to my Gimdalen and my belowed Idsjöströmmen. I will actually go with my some of my new workmates, the new Place I work at has a batch of nice fly fishermen. So I have been really busy with tying flies for august grayling fishing. The Riverkeeper and my friend Lars-Åke Olsson told me that we need flies with peacock herl. Not hard for me to find suitable patterns with that in mind. I started with a pattern I never tried Before, the Bracken Clock, a really old North Country fly pattern.<br />
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<strong>Bracken Clock</strong><br />
Hook: Partridge Spider #16<br />
Body: Peacock herl<br />
Hackle: Feather from the neck of a male Partridge<br />
Thread: Red <br />
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Next pattern was Another pattern I never tied Before, i have seen it but never tied or fished with it. The Grayling Witch. <br />
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<strong>Grayling Witch</strong><br />
Hook: Partridge SLD #16<br />
But: Red wool yarn<br />
Body: Peacock herl<br />
Rib: Flat silver tinsel<br />
Hackle: Dun cock<br />
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So.. Tonight I went throug my reels, new leaders, cleaned the lines etc. Tomorow I will pack the rest of the stuff so I will be ready wednsday morning, cant wait to wet my new flies..<br />
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See ya..Niklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-85874204529262883602013-08-13T12:46:00.002-07:002013-08-13T13:21:04.283-07:00Back in Business10 months since my last blogpost, in that post I said I was putting the blog to sleep.. I have thought about it for a while and feel that I want to wake it up and see how it feels bloggin again.<br />
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Lots of stuff have happened that inspired me to try again.. I have become a Pro Staff member of Partridge of Redditch, I signed the contract a couple of days ago, it feels great, have really missed some of their hooks. Mark also showed me some new stuff coming out on the market that looks really interesting. I have also joined the Pro Staff of Polish Quills, I have used their quills for more than a year now and their stuff is pure quality.<br />
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So to celebrate these events... a Steel Blue Quill tied on a Partridge Spider Hook and with a quillbody from Polish Quills.<br />
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Over and out.../Niklas<br />
<br />Niklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-19369008989128424352012-10-27T06:31:00.003-07:002012-10-27T06:31:51.567-07:00The fall, another favourite..So what does he now talk about, well as much as I love when the winter goes away and the spring comes with all it´s expectasions and possibilities, I also love the fact that it disapears and goes into a new shape, the fall. The fall to me is one of the most beautifull of seasons, with all its colours. Love how the season changes mother nature. Another thing is the possibility of sitting inside in the kitchen tying flies again, without the neighbours thinking that i´m crazy or not sitting inside. <br />
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This September I and a couple of friends went ti Idsjöströmmen for a nice fishing weekend, that´s another thing with the fall, the Grayling fishing. I usually take this trip to Idsöströmmen every fall, I love fishing for Grayling this period of the year, no mosquitos and a lot more time to relax and enjoy the companionship with your frinds. We didn´t have as good fishing this year as we usually do but we had a really nice time, loads of really top notch food, wine and all the stuff needed for a great time away.<br />
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Here is me catching a nice grayling in Idsjöströmmen, the photo is taken by my friend Ulf Hagström. We´ll se if there will be a fall trip to this place next year, unfortunatly it has become so very popular that it´s hard to make a reservation. Othervise we need to look for somthing else as cancelling the fallfishing isnt´an option.<br />
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The Grayling Steel Blue has been my number one fly this fall. I put it together last fall for the fishing in Idsjöströmmen and I have had some really nice fishing with it, both there and at other places. Fun to tie, nice to look at and it catches fish, what more can I ask for.<br />
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The fall has also given me som time to tie some other flies. A fly that I love to tie and fish is the Royal Coachman Fanwing, i havnt given it that much time this year so I sat down and tied a batch, just for fun... and I loved it, so this winter I need to make a batch for next seasons box<br />
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It passes more and more time betwen me posting my thoughts on this blog. It´s alot of work keeping a blog running the way I want and there is not that many intrested, people are more intrested in facebook nowdays? Well we´ll se what happens I have startted to help out a Swedish flyfishing magazine, Flugfiske I Norden. I have actually had three published articles this year, a fact that I am very proud off. It might be so that I will put this blog into sleep and start blogging on the magazines homepage, in Swedish. <br />
Niklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-15463059546241607802012-08-26T10:32:00.002-07:002012-08-26T10:32:35.356-07:00Spider ModeWith an upcoming fishing trip to Idsjöströmmen, Jämtland just two weeks from now it´s time to start to tie some flies for it. Last year around the same time I had nice sihing with a fly that now taken a certain place in my box, the Steel Blue Quill, today I made 12 of these buggers in an more olive tone than usuall. With that new Polish Quill dyed quill I thought it need a new name so welcome to my box, Gim River Spider. Gim River is the water from where it evolved.<br />
<strong>Gim River Spider</strong><br />
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My friend Jonas Hagborg from Dalarna told me this summer (with a smile) when we meet "a small white spider would make a revolution within flyfishing". I used White Pearsalls silk thread and the lower part of a feather from a white hen, the lower part of the feather because I thought it felt slightly softer than the upper part. Jonas, a few samples will soon be on it´s way..<br />
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<strong>White Midge Spider</strong><br />
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Finally a fly that I have read about loads of thime but never tied or tried on my leader. The Tups Indespenible, got some dubbing from a dear friend an a hell of a flytyer, Mr Geoff Littler (thanks Tuppsy) I tied it like a Spider as I was in a Spider Mode..<br />
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<strong>Tups Spider</strong><br />
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It was a long time ago I tied this many flies in one day :-) I actually made over 50 flies.. Well they will be needed at upcoming demos and for fishing..<br />
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Back to the vise..<br />
NiklasNiklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-81974353430748609922012-07-16T07:48:00.000-07:002012-07-16T07:48:09.468-07:00Irresistible<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The fly Irresistible was a frequently fly tied by Harry and Elsie Darbee. The fly is one of the Darbee´s deadly dozen. In the book Catskill Flytier you can read that the fly was originated by Joe Messinger. It got it´s name throug that Joe sent a fly to Ken Lockwod in the hospital, Ken, an outdoor columnist, said, "I haven´t used this one, but it sure looks irresistible." So through that it got it´s name.<br />
Tail: Dark deer hair from body of white-tail deer.<br />Body: Dark grey clipped deer body hair.<br />Wings: From body of white-tail deer same color as tail.<br />Hackle: Dark rusty dun cock hackles<br />Hook: Sizes 10 to 14.<br />
<br />I have now during a couple of days worked pretty hard with tying der hair bodied flies. While doing them the biggest issue was getting a decent wing. Tried to do the wing first than the body, nope, didn´t like that. My major problem was offcourse while working with the hairwings as the tend to "bulk" a little behind the wing messing up the body slightly. I learned that I could repair the mess I made by taking a few strands of deer hair on the damaged area and tie it in on that spot. The one on this picture is one of the repaired ones, above just behind the wing... just some reflections...<br />
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A funny thing about tying the batch of Irresistbles. I tied a batch yesterday took pictures etc.. started to write on a forum about te fly and then it struck me.. after five flies that were supposed to be according to Darbee´s Catskill flytier.. I had mixed the recepies.. so I had tied it with wrong wingmaterial, I used calftail instead of dark deer hair. So now I have to throw the ones with the wrong wingmateral away :? .. kidding offcourse they will be used on wednsday and hopefully they will show me the way to a decent trout.<br />
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Over and out<br />
Niklas<br />Niklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-14123887045981405822012-07-14T02:04:00.001-07:002012-07-14T02:06:53.374-07:00Rat Faced McDougallWhen visiting British flyfair a couple of years ago a bought a book by Harry Darby -Catskill Flytier. Harry Darbee are one of those guys responisble to that we today have something called the Catskill style dry flies. In his book he has a list of flies "Darbees deadly dozen", among these we find soem Deer hair bodied dry flise which were one of Harry and Elsies trademark. I have tried to tie the Rat faced McDougall before in my early days, not very succesfull though, it was before I got the proper material etc. Last week I finally got my sticky ones on one of those Deer hair packers, so now it was time to try it out properly.<br />
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<br />As with all old flies there is a story, I love those. In this case I found about how this fly got it´s name, found it in the book offcourse.<br />
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"As I was ting up an order of Bastards late one evening in the summer om 1939, Percy Jennings a amateur flytier from Cold Spring Harbor. Known among anglers for the time he cought a 3,5 pound brown on a backcast, came by our house. He looked down at my vise and asked why I didn´t tie the same fly on a smaller hook. He thought it would work better for the local trout population. I said, "why dont you do it" So he did, and it was while Percy was tying one of these that a young friend of his daughter, Mary Dimock came by. She saw the fly and said "Boy that´s got personality."Percy, knowing that the fly had a troublesome name among our more gentle fly-casting friends, rose to the chance and challenged Mary to give it a name. She was up to the chalenge, saying, "I think it´s a Rat Faced McDougal." And so the fly was dubbed."<br />
<em><strong>-Catskill Flytier Harry Darbee with Mac Francis</strong></em><br />
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<strong>Rat Faced McDougall</strong> -Original pattern<br />
Tail: Ginger Cock Hackle fibers<br />
Body: Cliped tannish-grey deer hair<br />
Wings: Cream grizzly hackle tips<br />
Hackle: Ginger cock<br />
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This is one of these flies you dont want too loose in your first backcast, it takes a while to get it proper. I fisrt tie in the tail, then the body in two portions. Then Istart the cliping, which takes a while, and dont forget to watch that tail, you dont want to clip that off. Well, I´m quite satisfied with this one. Now let see if Percy Jennings was right about it´s "troutability".Niklas Dahlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499255892685536042noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6074174545341252894.post-37212178620815128402012-06-28T14:23:00.003-07:002012-06-28T14:23:45.536-07:00Mojo NightSometimes i get a great urge for some tying, and tonight it came to me . I used the mojo to make som "promised to friends flies". I made a batch of Catskill dry flies for my friend Martin Stout, a great tyer that recently discovered the magic behind the gems from the charmed circle of the Catskills The other part of the batch goes to another friend Mikael Larsson a fantastic photographer and charcoal artist, with some luck he will find some time to draw my Catskill dry fly patterns. I will keep the chubby ones crossed.<br />
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<strong>Atherton No:5</strong><br />
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<strong>Quill Gordon</strong><br />
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<strong>Red Quill</strong></div>
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<strong>Conover</strong><br />
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Over and out<br />
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