Small Tube Bombers & Monster Tube Caddis for 2010

When fishing through the summer in Norway I normally run tube-dries in sizes equivalent to flies tied on size 1/0 - 6 singles - but I also carry a whole rang of tiny flies I use for finicky fish, some as small as a pea. This year I spend 4 weeks in Northern Norway with extreme heat and water temperature reaching 22 degrees Celsius (71,6 degrees Fahrenheit) and the small pea flies where in use most of the time - I would normally resort to little Bombers tied on regular Wilson single hooks size. 8 - 12. But this year I made a group of tiny Tube Bombers an Tube-Caddis on some extreme thin plastic tubing I got from Japan. The results was first class - I had expected little differents in the way that the flies would work in the surface - But the tube versions acted somewhat different - and enough so to draw some fish in very difficult circumstances.

Look out for the micro dry tubes that where going to put in our shop for season 2010 

See you by the river

Jesper Fohrmann August 2009

The Monster Tube Caddis draws big  fish in Canada !

Gilleleje/Denmark 14 of August 2009

Upon returning from my salmon holiday in Nothern Norway - I recivede an E-Mail from Mr. Bill Bryde who manages some campes In the heartland of dry fly for salmon - in Canada.

Bill, guests and guides had terrific sport with our Monster Tube Caddis - And managed to pull many fish to the big brown flies - even in bad weather conditions. 

I will let Bill tell his story in his own words and recommend that you dry fly specialists check in to our homepage at:

www.fishmadman.com and view the nice pictures of big Canadian Salmon - You find them under the page called: Super Catch Report From Canada

27. July 2009 02.22.22

Hi Jesper

"Here is a photo of a 40 inch by 21 inch Atlantic salmon we landed on one of your whiskers caddis tube flies last week. You can see the fly hanging from the fish's mouth (barely). I've hunted large salmon for 20 years throughout Newfoundland and Labrador and that fly moves them unlike any other. We've had many large fish come to that fly in the last week when other flies just would not move them. I rose 5 different big fish yesterday on one of those flies and two of them ate it despite a cold east wind! Once a fish is hooked, the tube fly slides free of the single barbless hook during the fight and significantly reduced the chances of the hook shaking free due to the drag induced on the hook by conventional non-tube dry flies. We are using them with a #2, standard shank length, sproat bend hook, with round down turned eyes (the old Mustad 3999), and thus the full hook hangs down from the tube on a 45 degree angle with just the eye in the tube....as a result every fish has been hooked solidly with the gape of the hook around the bottom of the lower jaw or very deeply in the scissors. By the way, one has taken 6 fish so far and it only has a bent whisker to show for wear. However, I'll be needing more of those flies as the guides and guests alike are hoarding them.....  

Cheers;

Bill Bryden

Eureka Outdoors Inc.

Newfoundland and Labrador Outfitter

If you want to contact Bill Bryden and try some of the awsome fishing that Eureka Sports holdes Please go to: www.eurekaoutdoors.nf.ca