Grayling Flies

[hans ahlstedt]

I’m going to Finland next month for a week and am going to fish for grayling. I understand that hare’s ear, pht and caddis would work. Anyone have any recent experience from Northern Europe?

[patrick mccormick]

Grayling here love stimulators, EHC, Humpies, Adams or pretty much anything floating, pretty much any smallish soft hackle is killer too, not sure how european grayling differ from Arctic though.

[hans ahlstedt]

Thanks for your reply, yeah I think you are right, they don’t seem to have a reputation for being very selective. I think my standard U.S. trout patterns would work. I hear grayling take very softly on the fly though, is that correct?

[patrick mccormick]

In AK grayling take the fly in every way but soft

[hans ahlstedt]

oh! Okay, It’s going to be interesting when I get over there. The area of Finland I’m going to has this very short but swift rapids almost like chutes between the lakes, (the whole area is dotted with thousands of lakes) so you buy a permit for so many hours to fish these fast moving rapids. It looks like a lot of these rapids have a quota on how many fisherman can fish at a given time.

[john switow]

That sounds bizarre.

[hans ahlstedt]

John!

Maybe chutes aren’t the correct word to use. It’s more like a narrow channel of water which moves very fast. I guess it’s similar to side channels in a river delta, the only difference here is that it’s waterways between freshwater lakes. I can’t wait to get over there.

[mark s]

Sounds badass.

[hans ahlstedt]

Mark,

I’m flying in to Turku in the southwest of Finland. I’m planning on fishing some water around the north of town and some about an hour north with car. It would be just south and southeast of the town of Tampere.

[mark s]

Good luck.

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