About the Red and Black Tempelhund Salmon Atlantic Fly

The Red and Black Tempelhund is a potent and rewarding member of a series of huge hair winged salmon flies.

Expert Tip:

The templedog is a series of tube flies developed by the swedish fly tyer Hakan Norling. They all are tied with the same style and with the use of "templedog" hair for the wing. This can be substiuted with good quality artic fox.

Country of origin for this salmon atlantic fly: Norway

This salmon atlantic fly is designed to be fished on Rivers & Streams

Dressings

• Tube : Brass Bottle Tubes .5" & 1" :or Plastic or Copper
• Tying Silk Black
• Tag : Red Glo brite multi floss
• Tail : Red Glo brite multi yarn
• Body : Rear half glo brite floss with pearl mylar tinsel over.
• Body : Front half black ice dub
• Hackle : Red palmered over (front half of body only)
• Rib : Oval silver tinsel (over front half of body)
• Collar : Black hackle
• Wing : Red artic fox, strands of flashabou with black foxtail over top
• Cheeks : Jungle Cock

The templedog is perhaps the classic fly using fox, but just about any hairwing fly can be tied using templedog-style, with a longish wing set rather vertical.