Read the letter in Scandinavian (This time Danish)
Hello, fellow anglers and welcome to another newsletter from us at Fishmadman.
So to keep things in balance and get ready for the summer fly fishing season I will be doing a short newsletter with a few highlights
Hello, fellow anglers and welcome to another newsletter from us at Fishmadman.- Hitching for sea trout
- NEW flies from us
- A NEW Owner hook
- Shop on holiday
- ★ Holiday discount (Promotion code further down in this newsletter
Hitching for sea trout
I had the fortunate opportunity to go to Scotland and fish the North Esk river in June this summer and conditions was shallow water as we have seen over the last decade…only very few fish entered the river and other than an 11 lb fresh salmon we were left with the occasional sea trout that had settled in the pools. I have fished this beat in similar conditions and aimed for sea trout.
Daytime sea trout is a tall order
Sea trout or sea-run brown trout are notoriously tricky to catch during the day, mainly because they are so easy to scare. Most sea trout river guides recommend that anglers stay well away from the river until late evening when sea trout change attitude and become bold and aggressive.
Daytime sea trout caught on a Green Hitchman I use a relatively thin leader (0.20 mm Maxima) to get more movement out of the tiny flies. Ripping small hitch flies or bigger Sunray Shadow flies across the river on a square angler can also be a great technique during summertime low water conditions
Per Fischer and friend Christian Balle who are in Southern Norway on low water conditions (as I write) also used hitch flies and Speed Sunrays to catch day time sea trout
Stealth fishing and riffling hitch flies is the technique
When fishing for salmon, most anglers will be fishing daytime, and very few will ever experience the local sea trout until late at night except if you fish with tiny hitch flies and have a stealthy approach to the tail end of the pools or shadow runs where sea trout may hide out during day time. Try this form of fly fishing next time you visit your salmon river in low water conditions
Snaeldas n the shop
Islandic salmon candy
The Snaelda, or Snælda as it is called in Old Norse, is also the name of a hand spindle made from wood used for spinning and twisting fibres, such as wool, into yarn. The Snaelda fly is Made in so many versions in various colours – you usually find the Snaelda flies with a black wool body made to be fished deep.
We have two versions in 3 sizes for 2022
If you are pursuing salmon in Norway, Scotland or Russia (not so much the latter for political reasons) …these are flies to bring.
Snaelda Willie Gunn Conehead Copper Tube ½ a version of the Willie Gunn Snaelda. The Willie Gunn pattern is a hair wing pattern after the head keeper on the Sutherland Estates (river Brora) Scotland
German Snaelda Conehead Copper Tube # 1
We made a small selection of this great fly pattern (a version of the German Snaelda) originally designed by Icelandic angler Mr Grímur Jónsson.
Shop holiday in week 28
Shop holiday
The calendar week 28 in the year 2022 from Monday, 11.07.2022 to Sunday, 17.07.2022
This is the week when we can’t ship your orders …so we hope that you will order flies and fly-tying material before this period or after – or wish you are patient and can wait for us to ship to you.
Thank you from us
Thank you for supporting our highly specialized fly shop – We hope that our flies will bring fish to your leader and a smile on your lips in 2022… I think we all could need that (:
Remember to bring your kids and grandkids fishing it is only by sharing the dreamy and glorious moments at the river and ponds that new generations of people would want to conserve the fragile world of the salmon and trout that run our waters.
Yours Per & Jesper