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[Nice One]

Hempseed's been a popular pattern in the last week and tonight I tried to tie it as a fishing fly. Some of you probably feel it is a bit heavy on the bottom but I am convinced that it fish well anyway.

Hope you all have a good time out there.

Sven

[lucaseabass]

A true fishing fly, with a killer looks. For sure I would like to use it the next summer if I were you.
Ciao
Luca

[BSH]

Sven, I like your version! This bushy hackles are making the fly very tasty! Good luck with it!

[whiskeyjin]

Hi Sven
So funny Sven I was think about same(mixed) ,,,,but I didn't decide yet which hook or size go for.
Very nice came out and love the this pattern on double.
Thanks for sharing.

Jin

[mike townend]

hi sven
that will swim very nice
mike

[S FONTINALIS]

Tons of stuff on that hook --- she looks tasty!

Nice job, Sven!

[geraldsherbrook]

Dear SVEN,

Absolutly GORGEOUS fishing fly !!!

I am sure as Kjell-Ove brings over 'KILLER FLY' ...but then a LITTLE 'one' !!!

I repeat a smashing example of a very very difficult and demanding pattern !!! LOVE IT !

Geert

[phil j]

super job sven ive really enjoyed your little mixers recentley really really good keep them coming

phil

[sky-pilot]

Me too belivie it will kill, Nice swimmer for sure.

[Dale A. Darling]

I'm with the others - and really like seeing your flies. Will it hold up to casting and a salmon? The head seems so close to the hook eye to me, and I wonder at the practicality of ostrich on the head of a fishing fly; just curious!

I'd love to see one of your flies in the jaw of a salmon! Good luck.

Dale

[Nice One]

Thanks for your comments.
I think Dale has some good questions I'll try to answer.
As regards the place of a steering knot, I agree with you Dale to the point that in this particular fly is a little on the low side.
I use almost exclusively steering knot(see photo) when I'm fishing flies tied on double hooks also though many feel it impairs the fly swimming in the water.
Actually I am quite convinced that my fishing flies are sustainable even though I have not tried my mixed yet.
I always use wax when I tying, and the head gets one or two rounds of varnish or super glue before I proceed with herl or wool.
But I agree with you Dale that herl heads is probably not the optimum in terms of sustainability haha.

I must admit I also would like to see some pictures with my 'classic' of the jaw of a salmon , but it will probably take until August before they are put to use.
In my home river that has pretty colored water most of the season I fish almost exclusively tubes but you never know, maybe one or two will be tested there as well.

I take the opportunity to include my last fish was caught on Wednesday evening, A female 9.6 kg (21lb) 95cm

Hope you have a good time

ATB

Sven

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[whiskeyjin]

Hi Sven
You don't mind asking about The double hook your using this pattern.
I love hook like Limerick band.
Thanks.

Regards
Jin

[Nice One]

No problem Jin
Salar M.Frödin made by Partridge CS14/2B

Sven

[whiskeyjin]

No problem Jin
Salar M.Frödin made by Partridge CS14/2B

Sven

Thank you very much Sven.
I might looking for this item.
Thanks again for information Sven and very nice fresh salar your hand,,,,,Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!

Regards
Jin

[Dale A. Darling]

Hi Sven!Thanks for the answer - it is clear and good. I do hope you'll try one of your classics and that it works!

The salmon is beautiful and looks pretty bright. How far from the salt was it hooked? Do you let them go or eat them?

The first Atlantic I caught was on my first day of salmon fishing in Scotland on the Tay. It was a fly I'd tied based on very little information and no previous classic tying experience. (I'd caught salmon in Alaska and Colorado - land locked Kokanee, which are a form of the Sockeye salmon.) The fish was very bright. No one was near when the fish was hooked, but when I looked back to the shore while fighting the fish and the current, there was a Scottish gent standing in the soft rain, dressed in his tweeds and so on, puffing a briar pipe with two Spaniels sitting obediently by his side. Wow, for me! (Darling is Scottish, and being on that river and in that moment, I felt Scottish blood was flowing through my body!)

The next time I looked back was in response to the Ghillie saying "Well doon Dale, well Doon!" He was carrying a big net.

I landed the fish. Took a couple of pictures. Not wanting to disturb the prevailing practice, I asked the young man what we would do with the fish. he said, It's your fish, eh?" I told him I wanted to release it - so far that day every fish landed had been killed. Then he looked at me and said,
"First salmon, eh?"
"Yep" I knew he wouldn't count the others that found their source in the Pacific.
Before I knew what was happening, he pulled a large knife out of his pocket, cut the salmon's throat, put his hand in and then smeared book on my forehead.
Tradition, indeed.

He also asked for a copy of the fly I'd used. I always tie at least 3 of each. One is on my Hardy hat, and perhaps he still has the other. That was a long time back. But it's a great memory. (I released the other two I landed on the third, and final, day.)

Thanks, Sven!

dd

[Nice One]

Nice story Dale :-)


Sven