Kai's Green Terror
Published Nov 13th 2007
If one day you should lie on the bank pounding your fists into the sand in frustration over the lack of fish and someone sneaks around the corner offering you a chartreuse coloured fly, perhaps it's Kai Nolting.
By Kai Nolting
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+  Kai's Green Terror |
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We stayed in the area near Bogense in the north of Fyn, in a comfortable house. Everything was nearly like we had expected it.
Everything except the fish.
Especially their behaviour regarding taking the fly - or unfortunately not taking the fly.
We saw sea trout splashing and saw their dorsal fins and tails close to the edge of the water.
We fished large flies and small flies. We were retrieving the line in fast strips and in slow strips. We were changing places and tried every tactic we could think of, but couldn't get a single take at all.
After 10 minutes lying there in pure desperation, something from deep down in my weary angler's head told me to consult my fly box one last time.
After a coffee break I followed this miraculous inspiration out of nowhere and found two unbelievable ugly flies - bright green body, orange tail and a grizzly-hackle tied around the body.
After storing my wet handkerchief in my pocket, I took a closer look on the illuminating flies and swore to do good for every desperate angler I'd meet, if these flies caught me a fish.
Making sure no one saw me, I tied the forbidden fly on.
With a feeling of "if I'm in guilty I will pay" I entered the water, made a few casts and - immediately caught my first sea trout!
Not a big one, but a fish!
Happy as rarely before I climbed out of the water to find my friends. Free from tears and frustration I stumbled around the next cliff and saw my good friend Rüdiger lying on the ground, pounding his fists into the sand. After an infusion of a good amount of coffee a gave him a green fly...
Since that day I've caught so many fish on this green fly, which Martin has called "Kai's Green Terror", that I always carry a good amount of these flies in my fly box.
So, if one day you should lie on the bank pounding your fists into the sand in frustration and someone sneaks around the corner offering you a chartreuse coloured fly, perhaps it's me.
But if you would like to tie some of these flies yourself (since I can't hang around the world's waters all the time), please read the instructions in this article.
Kai's Green Terror
| Type | Cold saltwater fly |
| Originator | Kai Nolting |
| Year of origin | 2004 |
| Difficulty | Easy |
| Target species | Sea trout (sea run) |
Materials
| Hook | Stinger hook, size 2-6 |
| Thread | Green |
| Tail | Red or orange yarn |
| Body | Green flash chenille |
| Hackle | Grizzly |
| Head | Thread |
Tying instructions
- As usual – start your thread on the hook shank
- Tie in a patch of orange or red yarn for the tail
- Now position a single grizzly hackle.
- Protect the the hook shank with a layer of varnish. Necessary or not?
- Tie in the chartreuse body material.
- Wind the body material forward in very close turns
- Leave enough space for the head
- Cut the body material after having secured it with the thread
- Now cut the tail off In my experience it has proven very well to: - let the body material end in the position of the hook point - and end with the bobtail where the arch is Following this instruction you get a rather small fly in comparison to the size of the hook. But as long as I fish these flies I got more hook-ups and lost quite less fish then before. And on the other hand it seams to me, that a larger hook doesn’t bother the fish at all
- Comb the body material with a brush.
- Normally I gave the body a torpedo like shape
- Now wind the hackle round the hook
- Again, leave enough space for the head knot
- This is crucial! Secure the hackle separately with a good amount of glue; otherwise it will obviously come lose within a few takes
- Make the whipfinish knot
- Secure all again with glue
