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Aug 1999 - All - Editorial, videos, user submitted content
Aug 1999 - All - Editorial, videos, user submitted content
Kasper Mühlbach, Denmark
When I'm not working it is quite often because I have gone flyfishing, which I have been doing since my teens, more or less.
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The Idiot
The Idiot - or 'Idioten' in Danish - is another typical Danish sea trout pattern. The story of this fly is quite well known and documented. A team of Danish fly fishers including Erik Døssing were fishing in Norway when one of the company stated that he had never caught a sea trout on fly in the stream Karup Aa - probably Denmark's most productive and famous sea trout stream.
Selecting hooks for saltwater
Fly hooks for Scandinavian salt water fishing There are several considerations to make when choosing fly hooks for salt water fishing for sea trout.
Get help seleting here
The road to Lake O.
A Welshman's story about the little known Dutch steelhead fishing in Lake Oostvoorne. By Paul Slaney.
Night trip
The first fish I caught on the Morrisfoam Diver was a small sea trout which I took on a nightly outing with Maj-Britt and Henning
The Femmer Crab
This fly is the latest development in my experiments with the melt glue I have used with some success for cod. This version is much smaller than the original and uses a simpler and better method for building the body. This not only makes the fly faster to make, but also much easier to cast.
The Cone Head Tube Fly
A brand new way of tying tube flies. The usual way of weighting a tube fly is by using copper or aluminum tubes. This article shows a totally different approach
Read about it here.
A Novice Graylingfishers Abstract 1999
For the last last three years, some of my friends and I have been to the southern central part of Sweden in the Malung-area in the pursuit of grayling and trout.
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