The V-FLY

This fly is one of the best flies you can carry in your box. Though small and dull - it will pull big salmon to the top...time after time

Leaving a dry fly to dead drifting across salmon is one thing but trailing a fly in the surface is another highly efficient approach

Hitching,skating, dibbling, dapping... all names of methods that can bring atlantic salmon to the top.

The fly in these next frames comes highly recommended. It has grown out of old traditions of: hitching a fly that evolved more than a century ago among fly fishers at the east coast of America. Here fly fishers noticed that the salmon fly tied on sideways would pull to the surface where it would trail leaving a v-shaped wake behind it. Salmon also noticed the trailing fly - and the technique soon became very popular.

Their is no doubt in our mind that this technique and fly presentation is closely linked with the life and behaviour of the caddis...for more information on this fantastic insect go to

Good luck to you! Jesper Fohrmann & Per Fischer 2008

A simple trick in the book of trailing flies. Keep your fly bouncing on top of the white water. Ex. the inlet of the pool. Below waterfalls and fast ripples. Salmon will come out of the water like that troll in a box

Fish hooked on Owner ST-36 BC size:14 You can also use; Alec Jackson Single Tube Fly Hooks or Owner STD-36 BC. double hooks. Buy flies

Trailing flies perform at their best in slick water. A constant wake should be kept by applying speed if necessary.

Gentle flow on Allan's Stream at North Esk. Salmon are hanging just on the edge of the current making the V-Fly the perfect choice

V-FLY seen from the fishes point of view

Experienced angler Mr. Jerry Rothman getting ready to hitch for salmon

The trailing fly can have a most persuasive effect on otherwise uninterested stale fish. Here a beautiful ca. 5 kg August salmon. Water 11 degrees Celsius (51,8 degrees Fahrenheit) - just the right temperature for the V-FLY Buy flies

Experienced angler Mr. J. Rothman fishing the Gorge at Canterland beat - North Esk.

Keeping the rod high - and applying speed to keep up the hitch deception

Determination, a long single hand rod and a little V-FLY did the trick for Mr. Rothman

Water 11 degrees Celsius (51,8 degrees Fahrenheit)

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