![]() Salmon comes hammering out of the surface. Fish will travel close to the bank and surface… keep the fly on a short line – work yourself downstream with short casts and a rod held high. Riffling Hitch in high & brown riverįishing a tiny fly on the surface during a rising river going muddy – might not be the first thing that springs to mind… never the less… Riffling Hitch can be an extremely efficient technique under such circumstances. If you tie your Riffling Hitch patterns on a single or double hook, you should leave enough room in front of the hook so you will be able to fit in the hitch knots. Use thin hair! We have, through the years, noticed how Riffling Hitch flies tied with squirrel’s fur have a particular alluring ability… The best hair is found on tails from small or young squirrels therefore, we recommend you hand-pick the tails for your fly tying – or buy them from us. I added the riffle hitch as a standard tactic, designed fly patterns specifically to take advantage of it, and experimented with other floating-line methods. Salmon flies are not equally good to use as Riffling Hitch flies ! There will be fly patterns that work better than other Left: Partly dissolved land and water insects – taken from the stomach of an Atlantic salmon in Northern Norway – Some salmon do eat during their stay in the river! …and for some reason, particularly those inhabiting the rivers in the far North of Norway – Something biologist Mr M Johanesen from the University of Tromsø, Norway has made a study on Read more This time of the year sees fly boxes being checked and restocked ready for the. Various terrestrial beetles, spiders, crane flies, and water insects like Stoneflies, Mayflies and Caddisfly may be on the menu card. Who invented the Riffle Hitch Monday 30th June 2014 - By Graham Waterton. We know that the parr of the Atlantic salmon is one of the most, if not the most, surface-orientated hunters of the Salmonidae family. An adult salmon grabbing a drifting insect in the surface or a small nymph-like wet fly below the surface is a part of the salmon life that easily could be explained with the experience it has had as parr in the river – Experiences that is part of a mutual genetic memory that Atlantic salmon has built on for 100 million years.īut what about the Riffling Hitch fly – what does this odd fly represent? ![]()
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