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Killer Whisker a compact alterntive to the Bomber pattern

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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Jesper is the chief designer and fly tier at Fishmadman - He also does most of our writing on the Fishmadman pages and Newsletter

Top-water fishing is his sport and as an outdoor writer he has been writing articles on this subject in magazines and books in Europa and North America sins the early 80´s.

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