I've been obsessed with Scandinavian style flies since about the year 2000. the way they're built around movement and how they swim so beautifully. I find them mesmerising in the water the way they pulsate and wriggle.
It's perhaps a different approach to our traditional Scottish fishing techniques but when you see the flies in the water you understand why the fish take them.
The Samurai is a slightly different style of fly, it's much thinner and more streamlined . These flies are very flashy, and have two balls of dubbing tied in before and after the wing. This flashy dubbing is aggressively brushed out which creates that all important halo in the water. Designed to fish fast through the upper layers like a Collie Dog or a Sunray.
They look just incredible when they swim, very much like a sand eel or a small fish. Colour combinations are endless too.
A templedog is can be tied on pretty much any tube, but I mostly tie on "US tubes" and Sean Stanton signature tubes. The fly's engine room is a palmered hackle over tinsel, or dubbing, or both which does two things.
Firstly it supports the wing which is tied in above it and helps it kick in the current.
Secondly it traps the flashy dubbing and creates a halo effect in the water, it's very cool.
