Her er det planen at jeg og andre vil præsentere nogle af de “bedste ørredfluer” som findes, og ligeledes forklare hvordan de fiskes. Jeg har lagt ud med et par af mine egne favoritter som desværre indtil videre er beskrevet på engelsk.

Poormansrat

Month ago I moved back to Denmark after spending most of my adult life abroad, and as I didn’t bring all my stuff back at once (fly tying kit etc) I bought one of those fly tying starter kits available.

Disappointed to discover that the kit did not contain the materials I needed to tie any of my favorite patterns, I created some patterns of my own. One of them has proven to be quite successful down at my local river. It has a population of very spooky sea run brown trout, and  last month I managed to catch two (and lost one), while learning to fish this slow moving Sea land River(Got some browns, and a Perch on it as well).

The first fly I tired from my new kit, was a hair variant of the well known Danish fly For Sea runs, the “Johannes” (hybrid of a Coachman and a red tag)), I used it for some time, but didn’t get much on it.

So back at the wise I mixed up tree different fly patterns, the Johannes, Mallard and claret, and tied it rat wise (like Rusty rat from the Rat series), and the Poor mans Rat was born.

Hook: Salmon fly size 8-6
Tag: Red fluorescent wool
Body: 1/2 gold tinsel, 1/2 claret or dark brown seal fur sub
Rib: Embossed gold tinsel
Wing: dark brown fox tail (or sub)
Hackle: Dark brown hen (or sub)
Head: Red varnish

Traditionally in Denmark, Sea runs are caught on local patterns like Johannes, and the Krogsgård series, who all has the hackle tied in after the wing, just like rusty rat.

I fish the fly traditionally, casting to the opposite bank, let it swift towards own bank, then strip it in. All fish took at daytime, stripping in the line in the slow moving current.

Chers

Killer bug.

Conehead zonker

I was first acquainted with this odd kind of fly, in the 1980 Jul/Sept issue of fly Fisherman, when Gary Borger’s Strip Leech was the first Zonker alike pattern I ever tied.

In the years to come I carried it around in my fly box, but I never used it. I simply
could not imagine a trout eating something as disgusting as a leach!(as a kid I believed in many things, one being exact-imitation theories). Casting a Conehead Zonker to a brown or a sea run, might be mainstream to most fly fishermen of today, but n definitely ot to me, until I saw The Trout Bum diaries for the 5′th time , so in an attempt to be a cool and successful modern fly fisherman, I felt I needed some beasty black coneheaded Zonkers.

After a heavy rainfall the day before yesterday, the river ran fast an colored through the fields, so the conditions was met for trying my Zonker on sea runs. The river had been visited quite often lately, so I thought that I might try some of the hot spots fished up stream instead of down.

Unfortunately the sea runs was not cooperative that day, but I took two nice brown trouts, one being 46 cm(one kilo maybe), not a trophy, but nice to meet after all (the browns seems to disappear? when the sea runs appears in larger numbers).

The technique I used to fish the Zonker is more or less the same as the one used for heavy nymphing, and that day the brown trout was very responsive to this way of fishing a big fly, mutch more than to anything else I have tried lately down “my” local river. So this way of fishing the Conehead Zonkers obviously works very well, with the biggest pro,,being approaching the spooky trouts from behind, and the biggest con, being that the fish is differ cult to hook(I guess due to the size of the fly, the trout can’t just suck it in, like with a smaller fly?).

I would be happy to hear if anyone has experiences from anywhere, with Zonkers(or other big lures), fishes upstream in deep unclear water, especially for sea run browns.

If anyone should feel inspired to use my Conehead Zonker, you can find the pattern below.

Chers

Killer bug.

Thread: Black
Hook: Kamasan lure size 8
Body: Flat silver tinsel
Rib: oval silver tinsel
Ving: Black Zonker strip(I used Rabbit)
Hackle: Black hen or sub
Throax: Black Rabbit or Seal’s fur, or sub
Conehead: Like photo, or maybe two bead heads as sub.

Alternatively you could use the Conehead wolly bugger