I've been so busy over the last week especially since Balticpikeflies.com opened. I had no idea that I would get so many orders for flies so soon,so If your waiting for your order then please bare with me. Sure its nice to be in a position where I can say to people they have been placed in a cue but I also like to get my orders out still with the same quality and standard you'd expect.I'm not prepared to rush an order so I can just get the next one on the go.
This is an Olive Banger tied with some black bucktail for body and have used some olive Ostrich hurl for the main wing/tail and some olive Marabou hairline for the head.
This is an all orange banger and has been catching me a good few fish at the start of this season. Was particularly effective down in Merikarvia last week when Rowland was over as well as the pink white banger. Orange seems to be one of those colours I can count on over here when the chips are down.
Anyway I have some cool things to be posting over the next month with regards to materials,spinner attractors, flies,catch & release, reviews, products websites,Reels.......so stay tuned.
Some more Mirror Image baitfish patterns I've been using the last few days with varying success. Am sure with warmer weather they will bag me more than I've been getting. They look fantastic under the water and have a real fishy action. The top two are tied with Steelhead silver and a small sprig or olive raccoon for the underchin.While the bottom 2 are Steelhead silver with a sprig or yellow Raccon for the chin.
Another two chaps I was glad to have met during the tournament were Steve Gait & David Smith from the UK. Like most they found the going tough the first couple of days and battled to improve their score for the tournament but came into their own once things became a lot more relaxed with both bettering their own PB's.Steve in fact broke his pb 5 times in 3 days
While David here bettered his with nice fish.Thanks for coming out lads I truly enjoyed your friendship and having you here.
No 50 so far for the season. I'ts been a period of ups n downs for me these last 2 weeks. By this time last season I had doubled this tally but with the winter we've just had and temps dropping drastically since last week it feels like I've had to grind every pike out. I've tried different flies,rigs,retrieves and even added small spinner blades to my leaders for extra attractors yet the pike seem reluctant to snaffle my fluff.Most have been hooked in the front of the lower or upper jaw depending on which way the hook is facing, which says to me they are still in post winter mode. Things can only get better though.
Im a bit late with this but I suppose better late than never.Anyway the next instalment from the boys at Sleeping in the dirt featured last week and its the absolute bollocks. click the image to visit 'Road trip'.
Sorry for the lack of posts again this last week but I've been extremely busy..... or should I say very privalaged to have been fishing with another true gentleman within the world of pike fly-fishing Rowland Frazier the last couple of days. It hasn't been easy this last week here on Replot and locating pike has been extremely hard. Pike seem to be in that post spawn funk they go through coupled with that weve had some adverse and often difficult weather conditions to contend with.Saying that though we've picked up 5 or 6 in the 85 to 89 cm (35inch) bracket and we still have 2 more days of fishing to go.
This is something I'm seriously looking into. I spend a lot of time wading here on the island and using this technique from rocky points would expand my target area considerably. My only downfall is getting to grips with rigging up a skaggit line for my 2 handed rod. If anyone knows how to construct one please get hold of me to share some ideas. Sure they rely on current to be able to load the line but am sure with a decent wind behind you it would work in the same principle.
I've been so busy over the last week especially since Balticpikeflies.com opened. I had no idea that I would get so many orders for flies so soon,so If your waiting for your order then please bare with me. Sure its nice to be in a position where I can say to people they have been placed in a cue but I also like to get my orders out still with the same quality and standard you'd expect.I'm not prepared to rush an order so I can just get the next one on the go.
This is an Olive Banger tied with some black bucktail for body and have used some olive Ostrich hurl for the main wing/tail and some olive Marabou hairline for the head.
This is an all orange banger and has been catching me a good few fish at the start of this season. Was particularly effective down in Merikarvia last week when Rowland was over as well as the pink white banger. Orange seems to be one of those colours I can count on over here when the chips are down. 
Anyway I have some cool things to be posting over the next month with regards to materials,spinner attractors, flies,catch & release, reviews, products websites,Reels.......so stay tuned.
