Fishmadman newsletter June 2020
Thank you…
Hello, fellow anglers. We wanted to write to you before summer begins. It has been a tough time for our small company during Corona – We and our families have been free of the terrible disease. Still, our company has been put into a coma primarily because of shipping issues. We thank all of you who bought flies with us during the last months and would especially like to reach out to those of you who had a very long delivery time on your flies and fly-tying material… We know there are still delays in the post-world..but things have, for the most part, gone back to normal.
Newsletter this time
- A discount in our shop – and helping The Atlantic Salmon Federation
- An excellent knot for those up-eye salmon hooks
- Stay safe this summer – enjoy your local waters
Tight lines from Jesper & Per at Fishmadman
Get a discount in our shop - Help us raise funds for The Atlantic Salmon Federation
We will offer you a discount of 11 % in our shop.
With every purchase, more than 30 $ we will donate 5 $ to The Atlantic Salmon Federation to help them do their job – We will be giving a discount and be fund-raising this way all through July
Use Promotion code: SALAR in the shop and get your discount…and maybe help us in support of The Atlantic Salmon Federation
Use a guiding knot on up-turned salmon hooks - The Turl knot
Guiding knots and knots for fly fishing is a well-debated issue, and for good reasons, the knot is the last boundary between you and the fish – Showing you the knot Per, and I use for our salmon flies is in this way a matter of trust – so I will start this small introduction to the knot I use by saying that the knot has never failed me in all the years I have used it. It is a straightforward knot that will aid you in fishing your fly in a direct continuation of your leader. It’s a knot you can tie at nighttime without looking at what you are doing.
Determining the correct name for the knot, we reached out to you, the newsletter readers …and the correct name is now in place… the Turl knot – as mentioned to us by:
David Ellis, Serge Léveillé, Mark, Brian Moran
Serge also sends us a link to a video showing an exciting variant of the Turl Knot in the Gaspesia part of Québec called the Gaspesian knot or twist knot.
Special thank you to you guys for participating and helping us get the facts straight.
The Turl knot - Normal version
No. 1
Insert your tippet through the hook – coming up from the down-side on up-eyed hooks (like this Partridge Esmond Drury hook) and from the top coming down if you use a down-eye hook.
No.. 2
Make a small loop on the tippet. Keep the loop between your thumb and index finger as seen here.
No. 3
Make two loops around the primary loop (I usually make those loops on my index finger – and then push them off the finger with my thumb)
No. 4
Take the end of the tippet (Here marked with a A) through the two small loops and slowly tighten up.
No. 5
Tighten up the entire knot by pulling from both ends of the knot – The knot should now form a nice and uniform figure of eight…if not …unravel the knot and start over again.
No. 6
When the knot tightens up – pull the hook through the loop and pull the knot tight towards the eye of the hook
No. 7
The knot is now in place, and the end of the tippet is trimmed off – This knot probably has a formal name – but I don’t know it… even though I have used this knot for + 40 years… If you know the name …drop us a line here The name of the knot
Stay safe this summer - fish your local waters
Per Fischer and I had booked an online ticket for the Mörrum River in southern Sweden – the region of Scandinavia where we live close to –
Soldier Palmer
We had a great “local” day with one of our favoured flies: the Soldier Palmer and this fresh silver Baltic salmon that liked the fly just as much as we did.
This summer many anglers will have to stay close to home and we hope that you to also will get the opportunity to visit your local waters
Keep a safe distance to other anglers but keep your favourite flies close.
Tight lines Per & Jesper