Dry Flies

The most common fly used by fly fishers in the north of Sweden is the caddis fly (sedge fly) in different colors. Lightly colored caddis flies (sedge flies) in the spring and darker in autumn. I usually use the E-12:an when I am fishing for trout or grayling. I tie the fly with different colors on wings and body depending on the season and the hatch.

Light colored Europe 12 or E12

Hook: 10-12 Mustad 94833 dry fly down eye.

Tying silk: Tan or yellow

Body: Fly-rite #19 Light tan

Wing: Two breast feathers of a female mallard Duck.

Hackle: Cree

Ribb: (Optional) yellow or tan tying silk

Dark colored Europe 12 or E12

Hook: 10-12 Mustad 94833 dry-fly down eye.

Tying silk: Yellow

Body: Fly Rite #39 Medium Brown Dun

Wing: Two breast feathers of a female mallard Duck.

Hackle: Brown

Ribb: (Optional) yellow tying silk

Big brown sedge.

Hook: 10 2x-long dry-fly hook, down eye.

Tying silk: Brown

Body: Brown

Wing: Grey Flank, dyed brown.

Hackle: Red cock

A good fly for the autumn is the black or dark grey upwinged fly. If you se a hatch of these flies in the summer, try the pheasant tail nymph instead of the dry fly.

Autumn fly.

Hook: 14 dry fly down eye.

Tying silk: Black

Body: Dark gray almost black.

Hackle: Black or very dark dun.

Tail: Black cock

Klinkhammer is a fly that I have been fishing with for about six years. It is a fly that sometimes gives a very good fishing. I have caught grayling and trout on it, in almost every river were I have fished.

Klinkhammer tan.

Hook: 10-12 Kamasan B 100

Tying silk: Black

Abdomen: Fly-rite #19 Light tan.

Wing: Poly yarn white

Thorax: Peacock hearl

Hackle: Cree, grissle or red cock. Parachute hackle

Klinkhammer green

Hook: 14-16 Kamasan B 100

Tying silk: Black

Abdomen: Fly-rite #13 Grannom green or light green

Thorax: Peacock hearl

Wing: Poly yarn white

Hackle: Cree, grissle or red cock. Parachute hackle