Trickster flies

From the early days of fly fishing for salmon, it was pretty much always done with either a single hook or a treble hook when fishing with tube flies. However, this changed about 30- 35 years ago when the double hook was introduced heavily in the fly fishing industry. Therefore, double hooks became more or less the standard for salmon fly fishing.

I have never stopped using single hooks during my entire salmon fly fishing career. Single hooks are very efficient when fly fishing for salmon and sea trout, especially when you are fishing floating lines due to a low and clear river – or in situations where, due to regulations, it has been the rule to fish floating lines. The advantage of fishing a single hook compared to a double hook under the conditions mentioned above, is that you will always fish your fly deeper and the movement of the fly will be less static. Whereas using a double hook under similar conditions will make your fly sweep higher in the water columns.

There are many advantages of fly fishing with a single hook. Once a single hook is set, it’s usually in for good. What I have always liked about single hooks, is that you always know where you are with a single hook, which makes it a lot safer to release a salmon or sea trout without hurting yourself or the fish.

The Trickster flies are all tied on an Ahrex HR418 WD Bomber Hook #4, which, to me, is a perfect hook for the Trickster fly series intended for wet fly fishing for salmon. The weight and the shape of this hook, with the “spoon” (hook eye) pointing down, makes it a perfect salmon single wet fly hook, on top of being an awesome dry fly hook as well.

There are 7 different colors in the Trickster flies series, in order to cover many of the different water/weather/color conditions we face when we are at the river. Please note our recommendations.

P.S.: All Trickster flies are tied by a professional Danish fly tier and therefore maintain a standard of high quality, in both material and workmanship.

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Banana Trickster

Season: From start to the middle of the season, when there are fresh salmon running into the river. Yellow/grey is always a strong color.