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!

New materials.

 Today i donned the usual viking outfit (yes, there is one) and went down to the local yearly mediveal market to have a few beers with a mate, play some games and have a look around.
As usual i was on the lookout for flytying materials, there's always an abundance of feathers and furs to be found in those markets and way below fishing store prices.

I payed in total 200 swedish crowns or about 20 euro for all of this.
One big piece of dark red/purple fox that turns black at the tips.
One fairly large piece of blue/black racoon.
One very dark purple whole rabbit skin.
One lepard dyed whole rabbit skin.
A whole peacock sword.

The sword is neatly cut into bits to fit my tying box.
As you know it's a versitile material used for tags, nymph bodies, dryfly torsos and also goes in classic flies like the Sunrays Shadow among other things.

Rabbit is another material i really like.
It makes a great wing for streamers and has a way to almost vibrate in the current.
To strong of a current and it will collapse though.
It still makes a good swung fly and is excellent fished in still water.
The hair also makes an excellent dubbing for nymphs.

I like those moment when you buy those odd materials in an odd place and the salesman wonder what it's for and you reply with "fly tying".
That usually sparks some conversations.

Feathers and furs.

Rabbit zonker sculpin for seatrout or large browns.

Hairwinged salmon fly quickly named "Nightmare".
Peacock tag, silver body with thick silver rib,
black rooster, fox and racoon wing and guinnea fowl hackle.

I like adding a bit of  a silver body to my salmon flies, i have a theory that states that a swung fly should in some circumstances have a bit of material that gives a bit of reflection to catch the attention of the fish.
Not that i fish for salmon and seatrout a lot but they are fun flies to tie.

New Norwegian childrens book about salmon

The wild salmon Salomon.

I really enjoy these types of childrens books.
Books that isn't about a fairytale land where everything is allright but books that educate and inspire questions.

The book is about the wild salmons journey from river to ocean and back again and the many perils they meet along the way.
One of those beeing the farmed salmon and the sea lice to wich the response from the Salmon Farming companys that it was a book to propagate against them.
Another was the anglers hook to wich we anglers responded "That's a brilliant book!".
Prioritys...

The book is in Norwegian and painted in very nice watercolours.
It also contains lots of facts and photographs and information on fish conservation.

Read more over att GFF and have a sneakpeek at the book at http://capellamedia.ipapercms.dk/Fagbokforlaget/VigmostadBjorke/VillaksenSalomon/

Badass salmon that bested the angler.

The EU passes new salmon law.

Link/article in Swedish.

The EU have passed a law requiering its meber countries to phase out all farmed salmon in the next 10 years in favor of the wild.

This in turn will require bypass systems so that the wild salmon can get into the rivers to spawn, this is not the case in almost all Swedish salmon rivers atm.
This will affect sea trout breeding as well.
It will also require the young salmon passing in to the ocean to get by the water damns and the turbines unharmed.

Closer controlls and a relativly short plan period really promises a brighter future for the salmon.
If the new directive is followed that is.

On the other hand, not remodelling the water dams is now illegal.

Now for the inland dams....
Trout and grayling need to be able to breed as well.