The Complete Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Blog
All our flyfishing and flytying blog posts by publishing date. Both languages mixed – just read on. Use the menu above to filter the posts into either Norwegian or English. Filtered articles will open in a new window.
Spent Spinners – Seven ideas for successful fishing
/0 Comments/in Engelsk, English, Fly Tying Article /by Kjell S. RakkenesDon’t you just love those summer evenings when it all comes together after good may fly hatch, and the evening show opens with a magnificent spinner fall?
Spent Spinner Wings
/6 Comments/in Engelsk, English, Fly Tying, Fly Tying Article /by Kjell S. RakkenesIt’s impossible to fish a mayfly hatch cycle without having spinners in your fly box. Either in the form of an upright version, or the version imitating the flat and dead spent spinner.
Perfect Mayfly Dun Profile
/1 Comment/in Engelsk, English, Fly Tying Article /by Kjell S. RakkenesWhat’s the perfect mayfly dun profile? It depends on the water you’re fishing in, but on a calm river nothing beats the lucid print from a No Hackle.
Five principles for tying a BWO Dun
/2 Comments/in Engelsk, English, Fly Tying Article /by Kjell S. RakkenesExcept for being right all the time, nothing in this world is better than successfully fishing a BWO dun cycle.
The Danica and Sulphur in July
/2 Comments/in Engelsk, English, Fly Fishing, Photography /by Kjell S. RakkenesIf you’re lucky you get to experience a Super Hatch. I was lucky to fish one this summer. The Danica and the Sulphur hatches were both peaking during the same days in July last years.