This list of the best flies is based on editors fishing trip to Lapland in july 2000.
It is very personal, but perhaps gives some ideas to our readers.

OLIVE SARVIJAAKKO (TIMBERMAN)

This fly gave many contacts with salmons in Teno- Lakselv and Vetsikko-rivers. The tastiest catch was a grilse a bit over 60 cm from Vetsikko. Mr. SFM-toimitus has said, that Olive Sarvijaakko has to be tied in the leader, when the nature around you looks out like olive. I followed this advise, at Vetsikko in early morning hours. First my brother-in-law, Topi; had a good contact with the fish. It rose to the fly, but did not take it. After a while I had possibility to serve Olive Sarvijaakko to the same fish. What followed was a aggressive hit and an enjoyable fight, which, this time, I won.

Hook: Long trebble 6-10
Tag: Red Floss
Tail: Beaver
Body Hackle: Brown Hen (Whiting) or Cock, halfed by cutting
Body: Olive Polypropylene
Wing: Beaver
Head: Brown

CREPLABOMBER

First summer this salmon dryfly had possibility to float on salmon rivers was 1999. The results were promising. During wintertime tying-sessions I tried to make the float and the swimming of the fly more effective, that means to better the fishing quality of the fly. In summer 2000 Creplabomber gave one nice grilse to the trip-menu. We used successfully th fly to locate salmons in the river. In late July many of the salmons have choosed their places in the rivers. These fishes ( about 20 pcs) reacted every time, when Creplabomber floated by. Some of them took afterwards some other fly and ended in our nets. The pinf version of Creplabomber catched a nice 46 cm seatrout in River Teno.

Hook: Salmon dryfly 8-12
Tail: White calftail
Back: White crepla or foam cut in the form
Body: White dubbing
Body hackle: Orange cock, cut underneath so that the herls are pointing sidewards on the floating line
Horn or horns: White calftail. It is a matter of taste if divided in two

CDC-NYMPH

This basic nymph gave tens of graylings, whitefish, trouts every pace it was fished with, and a grilse in Levariver. Actually CDC is in this dressing only the legs, which are tyed with the CDC-herls. The abdomen is tyed with the shaft of bold stripped CDC-feather. If You tie dryflies of CDC You will have a lot of this material.

Hook: Nymph 12-16
Pyrstö: Cock feather herls, grizzle or coq de leon
Rib: Thin copper wire(optional)
Abdomen: Bold stripped CDC-feather shaft
Back: Black 1 mm crepla
Legs: Cdc-feather herls, dubbed in a loop and cutted to show only to sidewards

CREPLA-ANT

Jake Karvinen developped this ant-dressing. It is easy to tie and it fishes like an angel (or Saint Peter). One of the best fishes with Crepla-Ant was a 600 grams artic charr , which ate as its last meal a yellow ant-fly. The advantage of Crepla-Ant is, that You do not have to dry and grease this fly all the time like You have to do with classic dryflies.

Hook: Dryfly 12-16
Backbody: Doubled 2mm crepla
Middlebody: Tying thread
Hackle: On the waist a sparse hackle. Cut underneath
Frontbody: Doubled 2mm crepla

BEADPUPA

This pupa-dressing fished whitefishes and trouts in River kautokeino, graylings in Levariver and some hot hits of grilses in Tenoriver. In summer 2000 I tested some pupaflies with the bead in thorax under the backshield not in the head. The results were very promising. On the Tour de Lapland 2001 I will have a box full of these Beadpupas

Hook: Pupa 12-16
Thorax: Golden bead
Abdomen: Green, yellow, brown, white etc microchenille, Burn the end in the form
Vail: Soft-fibred antron, sparse
Wing cases: Goose biots cut in form
Back shield: Black or dark brown 1mm crepla
Legs: Dubbed CDC-herls
Horns: Ultra thin rubbe

Picture.
A trout and
a artic charr
from River
Kautokeino.