Pike Premiere

It's been a long winter.
But now,finally the warming rays of sun is starting to do its job proper and the snow is melting.
The ice is still on the lakes and rather thick to add to that.
Some rivers and streams are opening up though and with easter break comming up me and the lass is planning to go up to her parents, stay a few days, take care of our house and get it sorted for moving in and i plan to make my pike premiere of the year up in river Våmån, specificly in the lower regions.
The upper are still iced over and the pike are in low stock anyways.
Up there it's mostly grayling and brown trout and the season start for those are not until the sixteenth of May.

So pike it is!
Hopefully the river is fairly open and that some pike will have started moving up in preparation of spawning.
Might as well bring a rod anywhere you go,wouldn't you say?
There's always some fishing to be done.

To that end and in general preparation for the pike season i've tied some more glitter ones.
Experimented a little bit with fox hair and added rubber legs to a couple ones.
The all-hair ones are way to small for my tase in pike flies,only about 10 cm(over all they are a bit small, brown/orange flash/hair fly is 15 and YES that is a bit small), but the hairs lenght has its limitations.
Gonna have to get my hand on some Big Fly Fibre or Craftfur or something like that, tying with just fox hair is a bit expensive...
I do however like to look of the flies, especially the monochrome one.

Here's to hoping and a good comming pike season!

Murky waters,big flies and big fish.

So i've been looking through some videos...
I've often said that my dream flyfishing trip would be starting out in the south of England,fishing dries on the chalks such as the Test and work my way up fishwise,rodwise and up the country ending my journey with salmon fishing on the river Spey.

I'm not entirely sure any more.
I've realised one of the things i enjoy the most is fishing for predatory fish.
No,not big trout that eat small fry but bog,mean toothy bastards of fish that attack with bad intent and out out nowhere.
Murky waters, ancient looking monsters and big flies that simply get shredded!
There's a couple of fish that fit that description.
One is of course our native pike but also the south american Tararira or wolffish.
They simply look ancient and mean.

Another that got me interested is the Australian Murray Cod, seems to be some sort in the bass family.

Placing your fly,stripping in....nothing....nothing....WHAM!!

Toman, the Giant Snakehead in southeast asia.

Tararia, the Wolffish




Here's a link to a GFF article about the Wolffish with more fish pictures as well as flychoice etc.

There are many more and i don't find flats fishing for big saltwater predators unappealing at all.
It's just something about the murky waters though...