Some new slinky baitfish patterns destined for a good home. Here is a bling bling baitfish tied with white flash n slinky with a slash of gold flashaboy and gold tinsel added.
A very successful colour scheme for low light conditions the Red baron
This is a simple mottled green sllinky baitfish with some arctic fox trim.
And lastly a smaller baitfish tied onto a tube using a mix of slinky and SF blend.
Not long back I was fortunate to be able to spend 5 days guiding a couple of french lads Jean-Sebastien and Stephane who were out scouting for new areas to bring prospective pike anglers too, other than Vastervyk in Sweden. Fishing was tough and as a guide your always under a bit more pressure when guys like these come out to put them onto the fish. Most fellas when they fish this island suddenly realise how truly huge the fishing grounds around here are. You could fish a different area every day for a whole season and never see another boat on the water. That's how little sport fishing pressure this area has. Even Netting is at a minimum. 
Anyway I very rarely manage to get my camera out to take snaps all the time.....well there are more important things to be doing you know! So I'm dependant on clients sending me some which Stephane has kindly done. Thanks for these Stephane, especially the catch and release images. 
More flash flies using the dubbing brush tool on my vise. This one is made with gold and silver Xmas tinsel baught down at the local supermarket in December.
This one is with Blue Xmas tinsel and some turquoise bucktail thrown in.
This one I started by 1st adding a clump of Dark brown fine tinsel tapering the ends.Then added a gold clump. Then a dubbing brush of the green/silver & gold fine tinsel.
This is just a classic red/silver version and has been quite successful over the last few weeks.Jani had a couple the other night with one head tied up using the same colur scheme.The difference being he used red deer hair for the front of the fly.
Another Goldy mix Xmas tinsel flash streamer. Have to say though that I'm finding the fine tinsel a lot easier to work with than the thicker strips like this one is constructed from. I've also found the finer tinsel flies far easier to cast as they are less wind resistant aswell. 
Here's a new Olive lazy boy I tied up the other day for an order. Has a dahlberg diver head in Chartreuse and white. a length 120mm olive raccoon zonker strip tied on to the back of the hook. A large collar of white bucktail and some grizzly crazy legs.
You can fish this with a floating line but I far prefer to use a slow sinking Intermediate with this fly as you get a great undulating movement as it gets retrieved back. The head pushes a hell of a lot of water while the tail gives off some wicked eel like movement.
The grizzly crazy legs are always a good addition to any pike fly just for that extra bit of movement. Probably one of my favourite flies to fish with over the last couple of years.
Tied up some cross over fry patterns yesterday. I'm running short on perch flies and these will keep me going till the middle of September when they slowly go off the bite.
I used Tiemco 811s 3/0 hooks for these babies. Simple construction. Placed a sprig of white bucktail on the underneath of the hook shaft and then a sprig of yellow above. Then wrapped some Uni Mylar Holographic silver around that. Stuck a couple of eyes on then Bug-Bonded everything up until the bend of the hook.
This one I used Grey bucktail and blue eyes.
This one is chartreuse with red eyes
And finally a Brown with silver eyes.
These will last me a few seasons here at least. What I do like about these is how well the clarity of the bug-bond has brought out all the colours of the eyes,bucktail and especially the Holographic Mylar.
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