Readers fish porn

Looks like my good mate Mike Green has been at it again. He sent me this the other week. Am really looking forward to fishing with him again hopefully in the Spring.Thanks for this Mike.

Baltic pike flies Issue 5 out!

Baltic pike flies Issue 5 has been a while in the making but I finished it last night. When you do something like this you suddenly realise how much time and effort must go in to producing quality productions like "This is fly", "Catch Magazine", SID, Bloodknot to name but a few. Anyway I hope you all enjoy it. Best viewed in full screen mode

Open publication - Free publishing - More pike flies

Cross over flies

Its always great to see how other fly fisherman develop and adapt their flies to target other species, cross over flies I call them! Anyway new found fly fishing buddy Perttu Vierimaa took two well known salmon flies the "Silver doctor" & the "Green Highlander" and tied his own interpretations of the fly onto 3/0 hooks and turned them into pike flies. I would have liked to have seen the tail extended a couple of centimeters on each fly just to give it a little more length but they have given me food for thought to maybe tie up some similar models in darker colours Black,brown,Silver & off white to immitate baitfish fry, Which the pike around here seem to feeding on at the mo.

Great idea Perttu and thanks for sharing. Tight lines with these mate.

Fly Candy

Raccoon bunnies have been leaving the house by the dozen since I opened up Baltic pike flies shop. I've also found myself just using these bunnies when I fish with tubes thats how well they perform under the water.


One of my favourite colour combos is this grey/white /yellow version.


These wolf bunnies. have a double trailing tail of raccon zonkers which just add extra flexibility to the fly. You need at least a 10wt line to chuck these beauties especially if its a windy day.

This is fly vol 2 issue 3 out!

I love this read,its something I look forward to each start of the month, but I'd dig to open its pages one day and find a 10 page spread purely dedicated to pike on the fly. Think I've got as much chance of that happening as me winning the lottery. anyway click the image to visit the issue.

Readers fish porn

A big shout goes out to my very good friend here Jani for picking up a PB over the past weekend.Considering this is his 1st full season targeting snotrockets with a fly, Its been a tough old year for him with lots of blanks spread out between a lot of Jacks so seeing him with this 78cm made my day. I think once he gets his boat , fishing is going to drastically improve for him though.Anyway congrats mate. Maybe you haven't noticed Jani but you can tell this is a lake caught pike purely because of the dark colouration markings to the ones we catch here around the island.

Party poppers

Here's a tight ass top tip for party poppers. Don't throw them away after you've fired them off, they not only make fantastic action discs for the front of your fly,but also make awesome popper heads for tube flies.

Peel off the wrapping and take a sharp blade and trim the top section from the main body of the party popper,like so.

Place a tube in your tube attachment and build up a decent front end using foam. Take off and place a generous helping of super glue all over the foam, and then slide the party popper head down the tube. Easy and works just as good as an action disc. I've been experimenting with different sizes the last few weeks and they push a lot of water around the fly giving the Marabou hairline and microbarb saddles so much more movement.

Action discs,nothing wrong with them but you can make them for a tenth of the price if you become a tight ass like me.

Steve Silverio was kind enough to send me this image of some of his tube flies he ties using Juice bottle tops to more or less achieve the same effect. Thanks for this Mate!