Arriving at the river pink salmon are silver and the meat is red and tasty a bit like our native trout,  after some weeks in freshwater the meat loses some of its taste and firmness and pink salmon become less interesting as food.

A brace of fresh pink salmon caught on a Ban´s Special. The top fish is a female, the bottom fish is a male.

I did my bit my fair bit to diminish the runs of pink´s this summer and I highly recommend these fish for your sushi and sashimi.

Pinks on a Bomber

Using our Orange tube Bomber fitted with a small Owner ST BCX # 14 trebles I managed to hook and land several pink salmon. The orange and the brown coloured Bombers was definitely the best choice for pink salmon. See the Orange Tube Bomber in size medium.

When pink salmon have been in fresh water for some time they can become quite difficult to catch and very easy to spook – but the sheer amount of them makes things interesting and this summer I spend countless hours trying to catch them on a dry fly.

The long needle – Sunray Shadow needle

A specially made needle for long tube flies like Sunray Shadow flies.
Fits our 3.0 and 3.2 mm Hitch tube that has an inside diameter (Ø) of 1.8 & 2.0 mm. The total length is 115 mm.

The Hitch fly Needle

A short needle we use for our skaters, riffling hitch flies and normal tube flies up to 2 # … Super quality forged steel. Fits perfectly with our 3.2 mm hitch tubing that has an inside diameter (Ø) of 1.8 & 2.0 mm. The total length of the needle is 62 mm.

The Medium needle

For small/medium diameter tube flies or metal tubes with inner-lining tubing – Bottle tubes.
Made for our 1.8 mm tube that has an inside diameter (Ø) of 1.1 mm. The total length is 97 mm. A needle that will enable you to tie big tube dry flies a.o.

The Thin needle

For tiny tube flies or metal tubes with inner-lining tubing – Micro Bottle tubes.Made for our thinnest 1.4 mm tube that has an inside diameter (Ø) of 0.7 mm. The total length is 62 mm.

A new type of tubing for your cone head flies

Cone-Head-Tube ™ from Fishmadman

A simple solution to a major headache

If you design tiny flies on tube you will often come across the problem where your tubing doesn’t fit the tiny coneheads you want to use in your fishing, and you probably already have a whole draw full of coneheads that won’t fit the tubes you can buy (except for those extra expensive tubes manufactures make to fit their special coneheads) – Well… we have the solution for you…and we know you’re going to like it.

Heat and pull the Cone-Head-Tube ™ and change the diameter of the tubing

Here is a revolutionizing concept in the world of tube flies that we have been working on for some years. Simply heat the tubing slightly – pull – and let the tube cool down, now you have a new tube dimension that could fit your desired conehead. A really smart tube to have if you design tube flies with coneheads

The best tube material on the market

Absolutely “low-memory” properties within the plastic compound ensure that the tube will fall back into place after the hook has been removed The non-toxic special plastic formula used for the tubes also prevent the tube from cracking up in challenging temperatures.

Use the Cone-Head-Tube ™ as an inner tube on your metal tubes – then add a conehead

The Cone-Head-tube ™   1.6/ 0.8mm. fits perfectly into most met™al tubes found in shops.

Heat and pull the Cone-head-tube ™ and you can shape it to accommodate a small tungsten conehead making it possible for you to design tiny heavy flies.

NB! Fits our Fine tube tying needle

Our thinnest Cone-Head-Tube ™

Size and Product specification

Outer diameter: 1.6 millimeters. Inner diameter: 0.8 millimeters – This is the smallest version of our Cone-Head-Tube™… suited for tiny riffling hitch flies – tiny sub-patterns

1 – meter of material       3.45 $

NB! Fits our Fine tube tying needle

Our thicker Cone-Head-Tube ™

Size and Product specification

Outer diameter: 2.0 millimeters. Inner diameter: 1.0 millimeters – This is the biggest version of our Cone-Head-Tube™ … suited for tiny riffling hitch flies – tiny sub-patterns

1 – meter of material     3.45 $

Las Fischer is the new guy on the block at Fishmadman

In fact, Las isn’t that new as he has been part of Fishmadman for some years. Las is a cornerstone in our small enterprise where angling doesn’t have to be part of your CV…but it helps (:

Here Las is pictured on one of those classic looking vintage photos showing off his first-ever sea trout back in 1993

Thank you for supporting our highly specialized fly shop – We hope that our flies will bring fish to your leader and a smile on your lips in 2022

To make things a bit merrier we would like to give you our newsletter readers a 11 % discount on all goods in our shop.

To take advantage of the discount please use the promotion code FISHALOT at checkout and the discount will automatically be deducted from any purchase you make in our shop. 

The offer will be valid for the rest of 2021