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Mr. Ron Grantham - designer of the Grantham Sedge

Grantham Sedge wake fly in the mouth of this beautiful BC steelhead – Angler behind the fish Mr Ron Grantham. The rod: A split cane rod of Mr Grantham’s design fitted with a Hardy St. Andrew reel. A super stylish photo taken by Mr Chris Purcell

Ron lives in Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada – he builds custom split cane rods and has been fly fishing and tying flies for + 40 years. His passion is fishing remote BC rivers for summer-run steelhead using floating fly lines and skating… Grantham Sedge flies.

Skate flies for Steelhead

The Grantham Sedge, the superior wake fly

 

Left: Grantham Sedge tied by Ron

The Grantham Sedge: A surface fly is known on all Steelhead rivers in North America – A caddisfly imitation that brings a steelhead to the top. The dubbing used on the original Grantham Sedge is: Arizona Simi Seal dubbing, colour # 19 Canadian Brown

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Tied on a Riffling Hitch tube

For some time, we have worked with Ron on a version of his Grantham Sedge tied on our Riffling Hitch tube

The fly has a hole in the belly – The hole is for the leader  – this creates an angle that will make the fly pull effortlessly to the surface. This Grantham Sedge fitted with an Owner Chinu # 4 hook

[cq_vc_hotspot image=”16623″ iconbackground=”rgba(132,249,77,0.8)” circlecolor=”#f75838″ pulsecolor=”pulse-red” arrowposition=”top”][hotspotitem] Body made from John Rohmer’s famous Simi Seal in Canadian Brown[/hotspotitem] [hotspotitem] Tied on our super 3.2 Riffling Hitch Tube
[/hotspotitem] [hotspotitem] The tube will hold a variety of different hooks
[/hotspotitem] [hotspotitem] The leader goes through a hole in the belly of the tube – Here
[/hotspotitem][/cq_vc_hotspot]Buy Grantham Tube Sedge

Riffling Hitch Tube (big) 3,2: 2,0 mm. - 1 meterThe Riffling Hitch tube system allows for multiple choice of hook and hooks setting: On the picture, the hook is turned upwards – It could just as well have been turned downwards – a bit like fine-tuning a plug. This way of altering details in the movement pattern of the fly is something Riffling Hitch anglers in Scandinavia do when fishing tiny Riffling Hitch tube flies for salmon.

More about this tube fly technique

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Arizona Simi Seal dubbing for grantham sedge

Grantham Sedge, a wake fly with a delicate wake

Fly fishing for steelhead is often associated with flies fished on the surface. Even though top-water fishing is only possible for a limited time during the steelhead season, anglers will gear up for these precious days of superior fly fishing. A wake fly like the Grantham Sedge will be part of any steelhead anglers box and a line of other specialized surface flies.

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Development of the Skate & Wake fly series

Steelhead on wake flies

Lodge manager and steelheader par excellence: Chad Black from Nicholas Dean Lodge participated in developing the Fishmadman Wake & Skate fly series. Here is a picture of one of several fish Chad had on his day off from the lodge (the office)

Chad wrote us: I’m happy to report that the hitched tube patterns have got a lot of use with our guests and have been very, very productive. I raised 6 Steelhead the other day on the Grantham Sedge Tube and Steelhead Beetle Tube and landed 4 !  Thanks again for a great product!

More from Chad Black

Skeena steelhead caught on big Black Tube BomberRead advice by Chad Black on how to fish Steelhead in the surface

See a video on how we tie the Grantham Sedge on Riffling Hitch Tube

See our page on tube for tube fly

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