Dry Fly for Salmon Today: A Call for Revival
Killer Whisker A big Canadian salmon dry fly
We tie our Killer whisker on tube – We don’t think big dry flies should be tied on hooks
Killer Whisker is
A pattern that eats lots of material and makes a swooshing noise when it flies by your head…We have tied quite a few of these big dry flies for people fishing the Lower Humber in Newfoundland, where it is cast on big salmon lying in relatively slow water.
Killer Whisker 1982 – 83 Comes from mainland Canada. An alternative to the sparsely dressed Bomber – Killer Whisker is a fly I would use to fish the Alta River.
Don’t tie your Killer Whisker on a long shank hook
A fly like the killer Whisker with it’s long bulky body is a first-class case of a fly that – NEWER – should be tied on a long shank hook – but ideally on a plastic tube – The Leverage factor – The weight issue – The missing exposure of the hook
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