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Text, photos and dressings: ktl

Surfingboard is one of the developments of "Flyprofessor" Pertsa Kanerva. It fishes splendidly in warm summerwaters fishes like trouts and rainbows. The basic idea is to imitate small fishes like bleaks, which are natural food of trouts. Important is the silhouette, which fishes see on the surface. Hurt, small fishes often swim on the surface, and they are easy catches for trouts. Surfingboard is at its best in fast running waters like rapids in places where the fast water turns into riffs, in deep pools behind underwater stones and on heavy riffs. Fishing with Surfingboard is not the way like puritanist flyfishing. You make the fly to swim at the right place and make it run on the surface. This makes fishes to react on the irritation and silhouette. In june I was lucky, when I had possibility to follow how Pertsa fished with this fly in  Kituskoski area in Virrat. How the trouts took Surfingboard, which Pertsa served to them, was amazing, real splashing hits on the fly.

                         
                         Pertsa and a trout which hit on Surfingboard

        
Original Surfingboard tyed by Pertsa sidewards and underwards. The backshield is made of adhesive foam.

Because I did not have in my storage adhesive foam, this instruction is tyed with glue and crepla-foam.

           

Cut the foam in the way in the picture. Fasten it in front of the hook so, that the broad part is near the eye of the hook.

           

Dub withflashabou dubbing the body of the fly.. Leave some stripes in behind as tail. Christmastree silver is ok for the body.

           

Put some glue on the crepla and fasten on it some of the dubbing material. Adhesive foam does not need glue.

Turn the shield on its place and fasten it in the back of the shank.

Dressing:

Hook:       Streamer long 3-4x  #2-8
Body:       Flashaboudubbing or christmastree silver
Shield:    Adhesive foam or crepla