Notice: In coloured water I sometimes include 2 strands of fine spectraflash on each side of the tail and pectoral fins. Variations with a bright and flashy body can be extremely deadly in some circumstances. When I use this pattern … Read more
Notice: When I use a dry fly line I prefer a weighted variation. In that situation I use a fine lead wire as underbody. In later variations I also use a ribbing of silver, gold or copper wire. Red or … Read more
(Original dressing)
Hook: Daiichi 1710 size 8-6
Thread: Uni 8/0 grey
Tag: Green fluorescent flexibody, wool or stretch nylon
Tail: Partridge hackle fibres tied as delta wing
Body: Hare, rabbit or squirrel dubbing dyed in several natural colours
Pectoral fins:… Read more
The three most recent additions to the group of patterns that I designed in Norway are already a few years old. As usual, they were developed on the banks of the mighty Glomma River, but this time under very difficult … Read more
For Northern Europe you can find below my absolute top 10 flies that I used between 1981 and 1996. Most of the flies I still using today during my travels all over the world. Some of them have been improved … Read more
Winter is surely high season for a fly tier. When the weather turns bad, and the rain starts to hit the windows, it feels good to sit inside, in front of your desk, and tie some flies. The worse … Read more
CDC an MP tying material by Leon Links
Just imagine the following: you are invited to fish for two weeks on a river after your own choice, no matter where on this planet. You may take along whatever you need, … Read more
There are unweighted nymphs, flymphs and emergers, but because I think that this pattern has all these properties built into it, I gave this fly the striking name of the REMERGER. I arrived at this name because my wife Ina … Read more
Originally designed for the large, deep and fast flowing rivers of Scandinavia, the beadheads are also very effective patterns for any other watercourse. Their value has been noticed by a growing number of fly fishers, and they are accounting for … Read more
Crazy Sedge (Leon Links)
Hook: Daiichi 1170 sizes 14-10
Thread: Uni-thread, 6/0, colour brown or tan
Body: Thread and palmered hackle
Hackle: High quality, colour red-brown
Wing: A bunch of soft pale grey almost whitish coloured reindeer hair. (Caribou perfect … Read more