New stuff from Fly TV

 I'm back.
I've been out working for the last month and have barely been home at all.
Had the chance to try some new waters, one especially comes to mind.
A small wild creek were all i'd heard was that "maybe" there were some browns.
There were. Lots of them and a good size fish in comparison to the water.
I got to enter "Small river, No name" into my journal.
I'll show you sometime if we pass that region.

Since i've been gone FlyDressing have released a new Fly TV episode.
Skagit fishing for salmon in the north of Sweden.
Very nice camera, nice fish, nice setting, nice everything.
My itch to get to use the twohander wasn't really helped by this...

Enjoy!

Here's one i really enjoyed.
Diverse species, diverse fishing, a bit of humor.
Nice!

FLY TV - This is Skagit

So here we go.
The followup to "What the hell is Skagit".
I had been looking forward to this since they announced it last week but unfortunatly it was a little bit of  a letdown.
First of it was a bit short.
But more importantly it felt more like a long commercial...
Of course they want to sell their gear and the vid is released without us poor fishermen having to pay for it but still.
I like Visions skagit gear, i fish it myself but i really would have liked to hear more about the techniques, line placement, anchoring, mending, what flies are typical skagit flies and why to use them on our sea trout.

It's still a nice clip but unfortunatly not as good as the previous FLY-Tv videos.
Sorry guys.
More fishing, less selling.

In the depths of winter.

Here's a small clip for you to watch.
In Swedish, bellyboat fishing for pike on the fly.

Not much is happening.
Did another trip to Stockholm and had another go at the seatrout.
No luck at all,just lost a couple of flies.

And as usual,you all know that feeling, there's not much going on in the depths of winter.
Fishing is hard,the fish is deep and the ice is covering most waters until the rays of spring sun starts to do something about it.

We've had some mild weather in the early winter but if the current cold keeps up i'll be able to do practice the only other form of fishing i do apart from fly - Ice fishing.
The greatest days for that is when the sun have started warming a bit in late februari,early march.

I'm tying flies and longing for the spring pike.
I've come to realise that pike is after all one of my favourite fishes on the fly.
I mean,just look at that water rising as the fish attacks!

In the meantime,more flies,more waiting and unfortunatly....more snow.

One of the favourites. Flashy pike candy tied with fox hair and big eyes.
25 cm long on a thick Carp hook.

First clip from fishing in Stockholm

So here's a small clip that Patrick shot with his head-cam.
I was standing beside him,we were talking to another guy and he was just lazily placing his fly out in the stream and was rather surprised that he got a bite.
On the other hand it was propably not a big one and he wasn't very scuffed about loosing it.

Mattias shot a bit more and i'm eagerly waiting for his edit!

The first fish

Stumbled upon this video over at the GFF Video Channel and thought i'd share it. I can't remember the first fish i caught. Probably a perch or something like that. I can however remember the many many times that my father took me fishing. Mostly pike and perch, i remember one summer eve when we caught 26 perch in an hour in the sunset, and most of the times on spinning rod, he's not the fly fishing purist i am ;) The first fish i caught on a fly was a rainbow trout on a small black nymph fished on a sinktip line in a lake. Here's the film about a five year old boy catching His first fish.

Only the river knows

The guys from Frontside Fly are at it again,this time with a 80 minute film.

"Only the river knows" promises to be a real treat judging by the trailer.
Nicely filmed in nice settings and with a story, not common in fly fishing movies.

They have been involved in some of the best productions these last years including the Vindel River series.

Here's the trailer: