Icelands annual fly tying comp: Three great looking winners!
Artistry in motion. Photo by Heimir Óskarsson.
The results are in for Iceland‘s annual competition for the best and „fishiest“ new flies, this year sponsored by the Icelandic national association of angling clubs along with local angling shop Ellingsen. There were some seriously good looking flies this year as you can see in the forthcoming news item.
And the winner is! JeiPí (Icelandic for the initials JP), by Júlíus Guðmundsson. JeiPí is in fact a five year old fly that Júlíus cooked up and tied and named in honour of a good friend of his, Jay P. Goldsmith who has fished on Icelandic rivers along with Júlíus for years. Júlíus and a small group of friends have used the fly as a secret weapon since and caught many a fine salmon on it. Several very big salmon have fallen to the JeiPí on the big Laxa in Adaldal for instance. It has also been tried on sea trout rivers to great effect, and not surprisingly. We on AnglingIceland feel that it shows a resemblance to an old trusty campaigner, the Vulturine Blue Elver. True, the colors do not match, but a lot of other things do, for instance its general look and manner.
Second came a trout nymph by the name of Tinna., by Einar Sigurðsson. As seen in the photo, Tinna comes in two variations. On one the wing is lighter in color, and on the other, darker. Both have been tried and they certainly work well....both of them, be it on the lakes or upstream fishing on the rivers.
Third place fell to another trout fly, Kvistur, by Ragnar Guðlaugsson. It is in the old fashioned wet fly mold, yet different in the way that the hackle is excluded in preferrance to a collar. Kvistur certainly looks like a fly that any trout in its right mind would and should like to try out.
We will not be forwarding any recipies here as serious fly tiers tend to do their own editions, we know that you will simply look at the photos and tie the flies according to your own eccentricities.
