The late Shumakov tied beautiful long winged/shorter tube flies for Salmon in his Russia and beyond in his final resident country, Sweden. He was a pioneer in Russia, working with meager resources and an innovator in the land of Spey
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……in 1993, was invited to Lund University for post-doctoral training. Since 1993, I live in this small university town in the south of Sweden. Here, I have found a very rich environment for my hobby: many rivers, lakes, P&T reservoirs, not counting hundreds miles of first class coast line for fishing sea trout and other species. I have many friends here with whom I work behind our ‘vice’, fishing together and discussing future fishing trips. Here, I discovered for myself Scandinavian style tube fly-tying and became a ‘die hard’ fan of it. There is no doubt that a particular article in UK “Trout and Salmon” magazine by Hokan Norling, the inventor of the Templedog fly, opened up a whole new world of tube flies for me to discover. It gives almost endless possibilities for tying. I have fished tube flies with great success since 1995, in many rivers on the Russian Kola Peninsula and in Kamchatka, as well as Sweden and Norway.
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