Pelles Fiskes biggest inventions
Chapter 4 - The One (Den Enda in Swedish)
Text & Photo: Raven & The Graylinger
To
start with; from an article about a fishing trip to Stora Harrträsk
2003:
"We all have our favorite flies. Often, they become our favorites
already at the vise, without having been in the vicinity of a leader,
let alone a fish. You just feel deep inside that they must to be good,
and because of that they get a lot of chanses and, with time, catches
a lot of fish. These flies have made the easy route to a place in the
fly box parlor, like the CDC-12 - you need
only to look at it once to get a new favorite pattern. Opposite to
this, the journey's secret weapon has taken the hard, thankless path,
to a location on The Graylingers fly cast!
The pattern was originally created by Raven, more like a ploy and to
see how a body of dubbed flash would look like, than with the
intention to actually fish with it. It looked quite bad to his eyes
and the fly quickly was relegated to the fly boxes backyard where it
was forced to share a room with various - most often totally
meaningless - may fly immitations with parachute hackle and burnt
wings. You know those flies that you tie only to show that you
actually can, but that other than that fulfills no function and are
kept languishing in the box. Nevertheless, they are there in the
luggage, travelling all around the country when it is time for the
annual fishing trip. It was in these deep recesses of Ravens box the
The Graylingers greedy fingers was aiming, as if led by Sauron's eye
he had caught sight of The One. And he had ...
The
Graylinger was not at all satisfied with result that the first
evening´s fly cast had shown. The GHE-12 was
good, but not as good as expected. The Graylingers, since childhood
most cherished fly, the Black nymph, did not at all live up to the
expectations, and the third fly - the usually murderous efficient
GLSSCCSe 2 - fished so bad that they subsequently had difficulty
remembering if it ever was there on the leader or not. Now, a dramatic
change was required, and that was why The Graylinger dug himself so
deep into the fly boxes forgotten domains that he found The One.
Neither The Graylinger, nor Raven, really harbored any great faith in
The One, and that gave the fly the place at the top of the leader,
placed as "the third fly". Normally this means that the fly will do
very frugal footprint in the fish stock. Though, they soon understood
that they had misjudged The One, and before the evening was over it
had taken over the place as "the number two" fly on the leader. It
actually deserved to sit on the end of the leader after the first
evening fishing, but for a fly fisherman, most changes are preceded of
a not insignificant resistance, and The Graylinger was most unwilling
to switch place with the GHE-12.
The following day, The One took step to the end of the tippet. It had
by then catched a big fat grayling from the depths, and enough was
enough even for The Graylinger that somewhat reluctantly changed
positions of the flies. The One did thank for the confidence and, once
it reached the best place on the leader, completely outshone its
rivals. There were only a concern - they only had one copy of The One.
The last day, the inevitable happened. Their only The One was lost in
the mouth of a big grayling, and The Graylinger and Raven was
devastated as they sat in the boat, looking at the cut off tippet.
According to the plans, they would go home the next morning, but after
a few uneventful turns with the boat they gave up the adventure,
packed their things, got into the car and drove home. For the upcoming
seasons, neither Raven, nor The Graylinger, will travel anywhere
without a hefty set of The One as a part of the luggage!"
And
now, from an article about another fishing trip to Stora Harrträsk,
this one from 2004:
"The first few laps just gave some smaller ones, and The Graylinger
began to wonder if the drizzle in the face actually was beginning to
feel pretty annoying after all, when he suddenly felt a sharp stroke
on the lighter rod. When the sensation of a stroke varies depending on
the speed on the boat, The Graylinger, with some uncertainty in his
voice exclaimed: "it felt pretty nice". "It is much larger than the
great one we had before, I saw when it jumped" said Raven who now
almost stood up in the boat. The grayling (and The Graylinger) had to
calm down for a while before the rod was handed over to Raven who was
best positioned for fighting the fish. He smoothly and methodically
cranked the fish in and finally The Graylinger was able to grab the
huge grayling and lift it into the boat. The fish was nicely hooked on
a The One Derivatives 1.
They just sat there and looked at it for a good while. "So damn large
it is," Raven said. "It is a grayling-monster" The Graylinger said.
They fished for a while longer, but soon felt that they really would
rather celebrate the big grayling in the way it deserved - by creating
a nice dinner with it as the main course.
Saturate, contented and slightly drunk they fell asleep with a happy
smile on their faces, this the last night in Stora Harrträsk for this
time."
The One´s status today
The
second citation mentions a The One Derivatives 1, so what is that
then? Well, the difference is that the Derivatives 1 only consists of
flash dub, also the thorax when compared to the original The One. This
improvement has shown to be working really well. Over the years we
have tried several other Derivatives by testing different colors, but
none of those have been any real success, it is the mixed flash dub
you must get a hold of if you want what the grayling seems to like the
best - Derivatives 2, 3 and 4 are now passed to the above mentioned
forgotten domains of the fly boxes.
What has really proven to work though is the The One With Head - when
you want to fish deeper you choose one of those, and if you want to
fish even deeper you choose a well led-weighted The One With Head.
The One is a weapon to really consider when searching for grayling -
you can fish it from just under the surface or right at the bottom,
depending on the conditions - if the grayling is there, you have a
really good chance to get it to take!
We apologize for the poor English...
/The Graylinger and Raven