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Scandinavian-Tyer

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About Scandinavian-Tyer

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    Atlantic Salmon, Searun browntrout
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  1. There you see Jens!!! One has to be careful about choosing fishing and flytying friends. In your case I fear that you have gotten the "Irish Shrimp Fly bug" from that Olinsson guy who for some reason is obsessed with these flies. Only known cure is Guiness during the day and Whiskey in the evening, preferably from one of the pubs in Ballina along the riwer.
  2. Letumgo; The Temple dog style of the modern Scandinavian tubeflies are tied with the last layer of hair tied in reversely as I described. But there are certainly a lot of other ways to tie these tubes, with different combinations of hackles and wings. And who is to say one way or the other is more correct than the other? As long as the tying in point of the wing does not create too much build up of the tying thread, that will prevent the placing of the cone. I have a preference for this way of tying the templedog wings since I believe the wing becomes more durable. But like I said there are other ways to tie these tubeflies. Lately I came across these US Steelheaders webpage that shows another way to make the conehead tubeflies: There are step by step pictures of the tying the tubefly and they get a good result. This will probably be helpfull to others that were not so fortunate to be able to see Jens online class. http://www.flyfishusa.com/newsletter/121006/#Tube%20Fly Only thing I would like to ad is: Be really careful with the superglue , since it can destroy both hackles and the wing if applied in excess.
  3. A great loos indeed! I can not believe there has not been one single reply to this post. I met Warren Duncan in Odense, Denmark,where he demonstrated his remakable skills at creating hairwings salmonflies at an amazing speed. Despite beeing a very fast tyer the quality of his flies was outstanding!!!! I still use some of tricks for creating better and more durable hairwing salmon flies. The Duncan loop, securing floss butts and his way of tying in the hair to make the wing stronger was really outstanding and everybody should know about it. Thank you Warren
  4. I think you did really well at your first attempt at making a temple dog tube fly. Nice job finding a substitute for the long fox or dog hair used for these flies. Even many scandinavians with the right materals for the wing would not have done as well in their first attempt. I would use a longer hackle for the body. The fronthackle is perfect. It is correct that the wing is tapered in order to create the teardrop shape of the wing when wet. If the wing is created by 3 layers of hair the 2 first layers is tied in with the second layer longer than the first. Then the fronhackle is tied in. the third and toplayer of the wing is tied in reverse at the butt of the hair, with the tips pointing forward. Then that layer is bent backwards and secured with 6-10 wraps of tying thread and a smal amout of superglue is added to the tying thread ( not the wrapping at the root of the wing!!!) and wound a few more times. When dry the thread is cut. This way the build up at the front that prevents a conehead to be placed is avoided since the securing of the hair is very short. It is possible to make temple dogs tube flies without the conehead. done like I described the head wil be very small and neat but I will use more wrapping.s. It is possible to weigh down the front of tubes in other ways than using a cone. I have come up with a very elegant new way of doing this that I will describe in a later post. But keep it up
  5. Hello fellow flytyers. I look forward learning a lot here and perhaps even teaching you something new about modern scandinavian hairwings flies and tubeflies for atlantic and pacific salmon. I am working on setting up a website featuring my flies for atlantic salmon that I sell. I work part time as a pro flytyer selling very high quality, state of the art modern salmon flies.
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