- Leader for dry fly fishing
- New Green Bomber
- New Black-Hig-Viz. green Bomber
- New Tube Rat
- New Brooks Sunray Tubes
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Choice of leader for dry fly fishing
Obviously, you would use a variety of leaders in your fishing. Some prefer to; keep it simple with only a length of nylon – others would choose a custom-made leader – At the end of the day, choice of leader is often a matter of temperament and tradition.
Fly fishing leader formula
Dry fly fishing for salmon is definitely a close combat sport. Often the angler will be no more than a rods length away from the fish when it hits the fly – Setting the hook demands a fast right hand and one could quite easily snap the leader or straighten tiny hooks.
Fighting fish and especially grills (small salmon) could also be a very demanding task on a short line. Small grills will often stay close to you – and spend time somersaulting relentlessly under your rod – often getting off the hook as a result.
The shock absorber
To absorb shock when hooking-up or fighting fish on a short line – We use a fairly soft tippet at the end of our leader. We prefer old fashion mono lines like Maxima Chameleon or Original Stren – Other soft lines from Maxima and some of Berkley monofilament could also be used as tippet on a leader for dry fly fishing
Sinking leader when fishing dry fly!
We know we will raise a few eyebrows when we recommend that you use a sinking leader for your dry fly fishing! – Newer the less we advise you to buy a couple of hover poly leaders. The hover leader is the leader classified one step above intermediate.
The hover poly leader does not sink particularly much or fast it will merely stay just below the surface during the short duration of a drift with a dry fly. We have found that sub-surface leader like the hover leader is less likely to cast – frightening shadows – than a similar floating leader otherwise could do
The poly leader will also outperform a standard nylon leader when it comes to casting big bulky dry flies… We use a 5 – 6-foot hover leader combined with a 50 – 75 cm. (20 – 30 inch.) a piece of Maxima mono-filament
Clear Fly fishing leader – called; Hover or intermediate from Airflo is super leaders for dry fly and riffling hitch fishing..
fly fishing leader sizes and Snell`s Window
The technical term for the way in which underwater life sees thing above water is called Snell `s Window. According to this knowledge fish see`s things on the surface through a cone with a width of 96 degrees. It is at the edge of this cone that we want to position our dry fly – The edge of the cone is also a place where the fish can see and be intimidated by our leader. Since the angle of the cone is approximate. 45 degrees we will roughly be able to calculate where the edge of Snell `s Window is situated. A little calculation will show that e.g, a fish sitting at the bottom of 6 foot of water (1.8 meters) will have the edge of Snell` s Window 6 foot in front of him … Thus, you will want to use longer leaders if you are fishing with dry flies in deeper water than if you fish at low rivers. For most of my fishing in Finnmark (Northern Norway) I use a quite short leader at 6 to 7 feet
Read about Snell`s Window and how you position your fly
New flies for 2011
Anglers fishing clear rivers in Scandinavia and elsewhere have their special choice of fly colors
Dark Green Bomber™
We have made a few custom colour flies for the upcoming season. The Dark Green Tube Bomber is one of them. This particular green with its brown hackle has proven to be one of the best flies anglers can bring to rivers in Finnmark (Northern Norway) – and Westland region (mid Norway) – It could be the green tinted colour of some rivers – or just the fact that a lot of the fishing ground on these rivers run through green dressed forrest..The Dark Green Tube Bomber comes in 3 sizes See all 3 sizes in the shop 
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New Black & High Viz Green Bomber™
A Tube Bomber designed specifically for Fishing And Hunting shop in – Norway… a dark and green Tube Bomber for day time fishing…in clear light and gin-clear rivers as you will find them in Northern Norway. Comes in 2 sizes
The Tube Rat
This is actually a pike pattern that we designed for Danish pike anglers – but quite a few anglers fishing Taimen and Brook trout have already made orders for their upcoming season. Build on our special hitch tube this fly will be a super-light alternative to those big rodent imitations tied on hopeless big long shank hooks. Leverage problems will be solved with this Tube Rat, that will hold a variety of different short shank hooks.
The Tube Rat also comes in a smaller version: Tube Baby Rat See Tube Rats in the shop
Brooks Sunray Shadow
Sunray Shadow Developed by UK angler Raymond Brooks who fished the Norwegian Salmon River Laerdal through the ’70s and ’80s. The fly was so efficient that Mr Brooks had it patented… Today the pattern has ended and anglers on salmon rivers from north to south will have this deadly pattern in their box.
We have made the fly in two custom editions as well as the original version.. Comes in two sizes
How to work the Sunray for salmon
This long-haired fly much in line with the Collie Dog pattern works perfectly for aggressive freshly run summer salmon – Latter in the season it will work miracles on big male salmon especially in the hour just before and after dusk… The Sunray Shadow is fished down and across as many other regular salmon flies but at times it is much better to fish this fly at high-speed, by casting it straight across and pulling it as fast as you can with both hands… It just seems to be to an irresistible snack to salmon
Sunray Shadow a must-have fly for speed-topwater fishing
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