Nogle meget store fisk fra 2015

43 tommer gigant…

Ian Martin fra Canada med sin personligt bedste tørflue laks: 43 tommer (109 cm) – omkring 36 pounds (16 kg)

Ian Martin fra Canada bidragyder jævnligt med foto og ord her på Fishmadman. Denne gang har han sende os et super foto af en stor-laks, fanget på en Monster Tube Caddis tørflue.
Ian er en kendt fiskeprofil i Gaspesie regionen, hvor han ejer og driver fiske-lodgen; LES 4 Saisons, beliggende ved bredden af elven Petit Cascapedia..
Læs hele historien om fangsten af den gigantiske tørflue laks – og se, om din næste fiskeferie kunne være i Gaspesie regionen, på Ian`s lodge

Fanget på Monster Tube Caddis

Monster Tube Caddis – En super effektiv flue til store-laks –  på begge side af Atlanten – Vores mindste og mellemstore udgave synes at virke bedst til skandinavisk laks – XX Large udgaven virker  Især godt på elve i Canada og Newfoundland
Hornene på fluen, er kanin-knurhår – et levende og meget attraktive fluebinding materialer, som vi har stor tiltro til
Se vores side om Monster Tube Caddis

Seks storlaks på tørflue…

Lad ikke størrelsen snyde dig! – Både Ian Martin og Kim Nyborg (foto) er begge mænd i  + 100 kilos klassen

Fishmadman´s egen pro-fluebinder Kim Nyborg, var atter i Newfoundland og havde denne gang, helt perfekte forhold – Med seks laks i 10´kilos klassen, blev sommeren 2015 en uforglemmelig sæson for Kim.
Den største fisk blev anslået til + 30 lb  – Mange af fiskene, blev fanget på Monster Tube Caddis, på Humber elven, i selskab med  den kendte tørflueguide Bill Bryden.

Se hvordan du binder en Monster Tube Caddis eller få en “pakkeløsning” og køb vores Monster Tube Caddis bindesæt – Se vores annonce herunder
Hvis du ønsker at fiske Newfoundlands fantastiske elve – følg linket her

Fluebinding kit`s fra Fishmadman

FlashBack Bug Bindesæt…

Det perfekte fluebinding kit til dig der ønsker at prøve dine evner på havørred og steelhead wake fluer – Nok til at lave 6-7 fluer i forskellige størrelser
Køb FlashBack Bug fluebindings kit

White Tube Bomber Bindesæt…

Efter mange frugtløse forsøg, lykkedes det os endelig at, skaffe ordentlige hackler til dette fluebindings kit – I pakken finder du Amerikanske Metz hackler og alt andet, nødvendigt for at kunne binde Tube Bombers
Køb Tube Bomber Kit

Monster Tube Caddis Bindesæt…

At skaffe ordentlige kvalitets hackler til denne store vårflue imitation, har altid været et problem for os – Nu kan er vi stolt præsentere vores Monter Tube Caddis fluebinding kit, med super kvalitet Metz hackler, og alt hvad du ellers skal bruge for at, kunne binde et udvalg af disse store tørfluer.
Køb Monster Tube Caddis Fluebindings kit

Smurf Bomber

Smurf Bomber (eller Smølfe Bomber) er et fint flue-mønster fra Newfoundland, med den rette blå tone af hjorte-hår, kombineret med hale, vinge og hackle i brun.

At få den helt rigtige blå farve på de hjortehår vi bruger på vores Bombers, vist sig at være vanskeligere, end vi først troede – men til sidst lykkedes vi med alle detaljer – og vi kan stolte inkludere endnu en Bomber i familie af 14 varianter –Se dem her

Smølfen er en tegneserie karakter skabt af den belgiske tegneren Peyo Disse blålige skabninger blev første gang set i tegneserier i begyndelsen af 60’erne C & R Peyo

En ny Youtube video fra Fishmadman

Helt i tråd med vores FlashBack Bug fluebinding kit – har vi lavet en Youtube video, der viser hvordan man binder denne effektive wake flue – Vi håber du har fornøjelse af videoen – og håber også at, du vil kommentere på Youtube
Du kan selvfølgelig også se vores andre Fishmadman Youtube videoer, på vores ydmyge Youtube kanal

Nye ting fra Fishmadman

En sjælden mulighed – for at få en Barred Brown Mini egernhale til dine små vådfluer eller riffling hitch fluer … Vi købte en sending til vores produktion, samt yderligere haler til vores nyhedsbrevs-læsere … absolut små og bløde haler …
Køb dem mens lager haves

Vi har lavet et nyt parti af denne riffling hitch Blue Charm flue – Med ekstra plads foran hovedet for at gøre det muligt for dig at lave din Portland Hitch knude.
Denne version af Blue Charm er ligeledes stylet som vi ønsker, at vores vådflue Blue Charm skal se ud
Køb dem her

Forty-three-inch giant…

Mr. Ian Martin from Canada with his best ever dry fly salmon: Forty-three inches (109 cm) – about 36 pounds (16-kilo)

Mr. Ian Martin regularly contributes with words and photos to our pages here on Fishmadman – This time, he has emailed us this super photo of a giant Atlantic salmon caught on a Monster Tube Caddis # small.
Ian is a well-known angler in the Gaspesie region where he also runs the fishing lodge LES 4 SAISONS situated at the banks of the river Petit Cascapédia.
Read the whole story about the catch of the giant dry fly salmon and see if your next fishing holiday could be in the Gaspesie region at Ian´s lodge

Caught on Monster Tube Caddis

The Monster Tube Caddis – A super fly for big salmon on both side of the Atlantic – Our small and big version seems to have the great attraction on Scandinavian salmon – The XX-Large version seems to work especially good in Canada and Newfoundland.
Horns on the fly are whiskers from rabbit – a vibrant and very attractive fly tying material that we have great faith in
See our page on the Monster Tube Caddis

Monster Tube Caddis: A odd caddis imitation designed to be fished at dead-drift.

Six 20 lb`s salmon on dry fly…

Don’t let size fool you – both Mr. Ian Martin and Mr. Kim Nyborg (photo above) is big guys in the + 100-kilo range

Our own pro fly tier Mr. Kim Nyborg was in Newfoundland for the second time and got everything right in the summer of 2015 – with six salmon in the 20 lb´s range, with this giant estimated at + 30 lb´s as the biggest – Many of these fish were caught on the Monster Tube Caddis on the Humber River together with friend and renowned dry fly guide Mr. Bill Bryden.

See how to tie the Monster Tube Caddis or get the full Monty and buy our Monster Tube Caddis fly tying kit – See the offer below.

If you would like to fish the fantastic rivers of Newfoundland follow the link here

Fly tying kit`s from Fishmadman

The FlashBack Bug kit…

The perfect fly tying kit if you want to try your skills on steelhead wake flies – Enough to make 6 – 7 flies in various sizes –
Buy FlashBack Bug Kit

White Tube Bomber kit…

After endless trials getting the proper hackles to use in this kit – we finally got a break with these first class Metz hackles. Everything needed to tie Tube Bombers is included in this kit
Buy Tube Bomber Kit

The Monster Tube Caddis kit…

Getting proper hackles for this big caddisfly imitation has always been an issue for us – Now we proudly present our Monster Tube Caddis fly tying kit with super quality Metz hackles and everything else included to tie a selection of big dry flies
Buy Monster Tube Caddis Fly Tying kit

The Smurf Bomber

The Smurf Bomber: A fine Bomber pattern from Newfoundland with the right blue tone of deer-hair combined with tail, wing and hackle in brown.

Getting the right colour on the white-tail deer we use for the body on our Bombers proved to be more difficult than we first thought – but we finally got all the details right and we are proud to include yet another Bomber in our family of 14 variations – Look them up here

The Smurf is a Belgian comic character  created by cartoonist Peyo These blue skinned creatures was first seen in comics in the early 60´s C & R Peyo

A new Youtube video from us

Quite in line with our FlashBack Bug fly tying kit – We have made a Youtube video showing how to tie this efficient wake fly – We hope you enjoy it and would welcome your comments on Youtube

Do also look at our other videos on our humble Fishmadman Youtube channel

New things with Fishmadman

A rare opportunity – to get a Barred Brown Mini squirrel tail for your small wet flies or tube riffling hitch flies… We bought some for production and additional tails for our newsletter readers… absolutely small and soft tails…
buy them while you can

We have a new batch of this slim style riffling hitch version of the mandatory Blue Charm – Made with extra room in front of the head to enable you to make your Portland Hitch The flies is also styled just like we want our wet-fly Blue Charm

Buy them here

The winner of the 2012 Fishmadman Competition

Norwegian angler Mr. Jan Harry Årsen wins this years FISHMADMAN competition with a + 14 kilo (+ 30 lbs) Atlantic salmon Jan Harry wrote us:

“Fish jumped out of the water to grab the big Bright Green Tube Bomber ™ from above” The salmon was caught in the fantastic Lakselv River in the very north of Norway August 2012. Cloudy conditions. water temperature 11 degrees Celsius (51.8 degrees Fahrenheit)  Hook used: Owner STN-36BC Treble #8 

See fly in shop

High VIZ. Green Tube Bomber ™ In big… A efficient pattern for Lakselv River salmon

Another Big salmon on Black & Green Zebra Shadow

Norwegian angler Mr. Jens Olav Flekke entered this beautiful salmon from Northern Norway: 108 centimeters (42,5 inches) caught on a Black & Green Zebra Sunray Shadow ™. Jens wrote us that his wife Mrs. Ellen Svendsen had a similar size salmon during their fishing session. This one on a smaller salmon tube fly with wing of black and green hair

Both fish released back in to the river after quick photo session

Here a version of the Black and Green Zebra Sunray Shadow ™ rigged with a small salmon tube fly double hook – Jens Olav used a barbless single hook rigged in a hanging loop .

See Green and Black Sunray Zebra Shadow in our shop

Salmon from Gaspè Peninsula on Pearl Sunray Shadow

Mr. Raynald Ménard mailed us this classic picture with father and son and a super fresh summer salmon in the 10 – 12 lb. range. Fish caught on a Pearl Sunray Shadow at the famous Gaspè Peninsula in  Matane River – Rod 12`# 5 Spey rod

A salmon tube fly for big greedy fish

The Pearl Sunray Shadow

See fly in our shop

XXL arctic char on wake-foam flies

Mr. Bo Jensen from Denmark enjoyed super fishing for XXL Arctic Char in Greenland this summer. Fishing gin clear rivers using our Tube Chernobyl Ants. Bo wrote us that that average arctic char is in the 2 kilo range (4,4 lb.) with bigger fish being 7 kilo (+ 15 lb.) The flies where fished active cast at an 60 degree angle downstream and brought back with wake and stop & go motion.

See our range of Tube Chernobyl Ants

Tube foam flies are killers for big arctic char that like its cousins the Steelhead and sea trout is attracted to waked flies.

See flies in shop

Big steelheads from the West Coast of Canada

Photo courtesy of Mr. Chad Black Nicholas Dean Lodge

As the top water season was firing up on the West coast of Canada we got pictures of super steelhead caught on our Riffling hitch tube wake flies: This one caught on a  The Tube Grantham Sedge by Mr. Chad Black  in a Skeena River Tributary- Fish was 34,5” long by 16.5” girth (87,63 X 41,91 centimeters) – approximately 12 lbs (5,44 kilo)  based on Sturdy’s formula. we will return to some of these stunning fish in our next newsletter

 

The Tube Grantham Sedge – See this and the other in the wake series 

Salmon fishing on the Upper Moisie River in Quebec

Photo`s courtesy of Mr. Jocelin LeBlanc, Le Repère Des Moucheurs – Landmark Flyshop

Mr. Ian D. Martin is Fly Fishing writer & photographer get around to see many different and desirable places – This summer we got some nice reports from his fishing. Ian wrote us; “Pictures above is from the Trinity River. I caught two fish,  one was really fresh!  The other one took a green squirrel V-tube, but it was not rigged for riffling but fished as a conventional micro tube fly”

” Moisie fishing this morning was canceled because of excessive wind and rain and fog 🙁  We hope this afternoon will work out, and that the helicopter can fly tomorrow to get us to Mile 12 Pool !”

” Hello Fishmadman : A little fish story – On the upper Moisie River in Quebec, the access is by helicopter. After no fish hooked for the whole day, and the weather getting worse, we had only 30 minutes until the helicopter was grounded. That’s when I saw this salmon roll, near a big rock well out in the pool. I ran down and quickly waded into position and managed to work out a long cast to cover the fish with a Green Squirrel hitch tube, and it took on the first swing. The helicopter arrived just as I was landing the fish, and we had to quickly release a beautiful Moisie salmon and race to pack up our gear as the impatient pilot waited with the rotors turning! “

Photo`s courtesy of Mr Ian D Martin Fly Fishing writer/photographer The Usual Press

Top water sea trout

Danish top water angler Mikkel Hemmeshøj with one of several sea trout caught during top water fishing with the Mad Dog Wake fly – Denmark probably has some of the greatest sea trout fishing in the world and famous rivers yields 100`s of trophy fish in the 10 – 20 lbs range. Many of these fish are caught on wake flies like the Mad Dog from Fishmadman

Mad Dog Tube Wake fly from Fishmadman. A superior wake fly designed by Danish sea trout angler Mr. Dan Karby for fishing in the Vejle River system. In Vejle river sea trout is fished at day and at night time with wake flies. Fly is fished in or close to the surface. See fly in our E-shop

The Take:

To the dry fly angler the core of dry fly fishing lies in the take.  The enthralling and hypnotic experience of seeing a fish coming to the surface to hit the fly can`t be matched by much.

The salmon dry fly take

Some salmon will take the fly savagely wild and furiously fast; others will take their time, rise slowly, and finally suck the fly from the surface – Bigger salmon in the 10 – 15 kilo range will normally be slow starters. They will need a well-presented fly to allow them to work their way up to the surface. Working out the right tactic to use is very much a matter of experience, and the angler will need to consider river depth and river flow when presenting the fly. The eyesight of salmon is built to look for insects in a cone-shaped 96-degree window upwards – If it finds interest in your drifting fly, it will start its rise with precision so it cuts right into the path of the fly when it is above it lies….  These things aren’t always certain terms, and salmon will sometimes act in unpredictable ways – Some may follow the fly closely for many meters downstream before grabbing it – Some fish will jump high out of the water and then grab the fly from above.

Steelhead`s er i langt højere grad end Atlanterhavs laks, tiltrukket af  fluer der er i bevægelse i overflade, og vil reagere aggressivt på fluer fisket aktivt, både sommer og efterår. Steelhead fiskere har således designet fluer til dette fiskeri i årtier – fluer, der vil virke på overfladen – i hårdt og roligt vand. Steelhead flue mønstre som Waller Walker, Wag`s Walker, The Ska-opper, Moose Turd og Grantham Sedge

 Riffling Hitch

At trække hitchede vådfluer i overfladen, eller i stedet bruge en Riffling Hitch-rørfluer er gangbare teknikker til atlanterhav`s laks. Teknikken virker også godt til steelhead. Man kunne kalde Riffling Hitch fiskeri: en rolig måde at, Skate eller Wake en flue – men det ville alligevel ikke være helt korrekt, da den egentlige præsentation af fluen kan være anderledes på en steelhead elv kontra en lakseelv. Lakse-fiskeren ønsker i nogen grad at; holde Riffling Hitch fluen oppe og forhindre den i at dykke – Steelhead fiskeren ville derimod drage nytte af at, fluen dykker under vand – for derefter at, poppe op igen for at hitche videre. Se mere om Riffling Hitch

Sammen med guider fra en af Canadas bedste steeelhead lodges: Nicholas Dean Lodge, har vi udviklet en lille serie Wake & Skate  – Serie består af variationer over 4 afprøvede steelhead flue mønstre – Alle fluer bundet på vores super hitch rør 

Fiskeri efter steelhead i overfladen anses af mange fluefiskere, for toppen af fluefiskeri – Således er det også øverst på Fishmadman`s ønske liste – så vi spurgte camp chef; Chad Black fra Nicholas Dean Lodge – Om han ville lave en lille beretning om sæsonen ved Skeena elven på Canadas vestkyst.

 

Steelhead fanget på Steelhead Bee En Steelhead flue af; Roderick Haig-Brown fra Vancouver BC. Billede venligst udlånt af Chad Black  Nicholas Dean Lodge

“På den nederste del af Skeena elven, er det bedste tørflue fiskeri efter steelhead, fra midten af august frem til midten af oktober. Der er bestemt muligheder på begge sider af disse datoer,  men det er i dette tidsrum at, dedikerede steelhead fiskere, med rimelighed kan finde tørflue-fiske forhold.
Vandstanden er faldende og måske vigtigst; vandtemperaturen er relativt høj. Under disse betingelser, vil du møde, steelhead, der er aggressive, til tider legende, og først og fremmst; villig til at jagte en flue, der bliver fisket langsomt hen over overfladen, i en sten fyldt pool.

Dette fiskeri er simpelthen noget af det mest fascinerende fiskeri man kan opleve – og min favorit måde at, fange steelheads på.”

For at have succes når du fisker steelhead ved Skeena – er der her et par vigtige ting du bør huske

“At se en steelhead der langsomt materialisere sig ud af skyggerne i et hurtigt stryg, forfølge og tage din top-water steelhead flue – er et af højdepunkterne i en fluefiske karriere . Det er sådan en visuel, personlig erfaring, at uanset hvor klart man forsøger at beskrive og fange dette øjeblik på papiret, så kan det bare ikke lade sig gøre – Man må selv se og opleve det!

Så selvom der er uendelig meget forskelligt fiskeri ved Skeena og i vores område generelt, , herunder små unavngivne kyst-elv med store steelhead, og monster og  45 lbs. Chinook laks på flue – så vil tørflue sæsonen  efter steelhead sandsynligvis for evigt forblive klienternes favorit  – her på Nicholas Dean Lodge.

Knæk & Bræk Chad Black”

 

 

 

Riffling Hitch på Exploits Elven i Newfoundland

Denne vinter var så # #% XX! kold, at jeg måtte bruge lidt mental tid til at, redigere denne lille solrige videofilm, som det lykkedes os at, få i kassen, mens vi besøgte Newfoundland og den mægtige Exploits elv sommer 2011 – Vi gjorde det med top lakse guide; Bill Bryden fra Eurekaoutdoors – Exploits Elven. Endnu en fremragende top-water destination i Canada.

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Your next top water destination….

Fishing for steelhead in the surface is considered the top of fly fishing – Certainly, it is at the top of the Fishmadman wish list – so we asked lodge manager Chad Black from Nicholas Dean Lodge to give us a brief view of the possibilities they have to offer during the season

Chad Black manage one of the best-bespoken steelhead lodges in BC and have helped us design and hone some of our greatest steelhead wake flies – but foremost Chad is a top water aficionado that waits for the right opportunity to gear up for one of the most exclusive of all fly fishing sports – steelhead on the surface

Read his unique advice

Grease liner a clasic steelhead fly from the 70´s – Here in our tube version

The steelhead Beetle a fly designed by Mr. Rob Brown from Terrace – Here tied on tube

The Grantham sedge by Mr. Ron Grantham – Here tied on tube

Rifling Hitch on the Exploits River

This winter was so ##%XX! cold that I took time off to edit the little sunny video film we managed to get in the box while we visited Newfoundland and the mighty Exploits River the summer of 2011 – We did so with guide superior Mr. Bill Bryden from Eureka outdoors – Yet another superior destination in Canada – for the top-water angler.