August 2009Mr. Bill Bryden from Eureka Outdoors Inc. has sent us this great report from the “cradle of dry fly fishing for salmon” in Canada.
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 (Monster Tube Caddis™ ) . 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 Another big salmon to your Monster Tube Caddis ™ You can see the fly hanging out of the mouth” Buy flies
Pictures; curtsey of Mr. Mark Butcher
