We have made a couple of video on YouTube

First video is to show you how we rig the tubes...You will find this video here 

The Next video showes you step by step how to tie one of ouer flies. You will find this video here 

Hope you enjoy them...and feel free to coment

Kepp it dry

Jesper Fohrmann

www.fishmadman.com

We have created a new web site - The old one had some flaws - and we wanted to add some more pages.

Among others we have added a page on biology where we have dealt with some of the theoretical idea's about why flies will work - or not...

For future projects we can tell you that we have teamed up with some fly tiers who is going to make a us a small range of "traditional" US imitations on tube..We hope to bring you detailed pictures soon.

See you out their

Jesper

Small Tube Bombers & Monster Tube Caddis for 2010

When fishing through the summer in Norway I normally run tube-dries in sizes equivalent to flies tied on size 1/0 - 6 singles - but I also carry a whole rang of tiny flies I use for finicky fish, some as small as a pea. This year I spend 4 weeks in Northern Norway with extreme heat and water temperature reaching 22 degrees Celsius (71,6 degrees Fahrenheit) and the small pea flies where in use most of the time - I would normally resort to little Bombers tied on regular Wilson single hooks size. 8 - 12. But this year I made a group of tiny Tube Bombers an Tube-Caddis on some extreme thin plastic tubing I got from Japan. The results was first class - I had expected little differents in the way that the flies would work in the surface - But the tube versions acted somewhat different - and enough so to draw some fish in very difficult circumstances.

Look out for the micro dry tubes that where going to put in our shop for season 2010 

See you by the river

Jesper Fohrmann August 2009

The Monster Tube Caddis draws big  fish in Canada !

Gilleleje/Denmark 14 of August 2009

Upon returning from my salmon holiday in Nothern Norway - I recivede an E-Mail from Mr. Bill Bryde who manages some campes In the heartland of dry fly for salmon - in Canada.

Bill, guests and guides had terrific sport with our Monster Tube Caddis - And managed to pull many fish to the big brown flies - even in bad weather conditions. 

I will let Bill tell his story in his own words and recommend that you dry fly specialists check in to our homepage at:

www.fishmadman.com and view the nice pictures of big Canadian Salmon - You find them under the page called: Super Catch Report From Canada

27. July 2009 02.22.22

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. 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

If you want to contact Bill Bryden and try some of the awsome fishing that Eureka Sports holdes Please go to: www.eurekaoutdoors.nf.ca

In 1929 Legendary salmon fisher Lee Wulff and friend; Dan Baile created a series of big may fly imitations. They became known as the Wulff series with all historic fly names as: White, Grey and Royal Wulff.. Flies where intended for trout - but it soon became evident to Lee Wulff that the flies where well suited for Atlantic salmon.
Today flies from the Wulff series are cornerstones in the world of dry fly for salmon. Through the last 13 years I have been tying my salmon dry flies on tubes..The result has been an all together positive experience ...Tying with tube I can design huge dry flies - with the same fluttering abilities of tiny dry flies. 
This huge fly has a caddis look...maybe not your standard type of caddis but rather a cartoon version of such. The feather light construction build on the tiny tube - combined with the The flat cut belly - The long tentacles and the 180 degree hackle - Gives this fly....a erratic and very lifelike appearance on the river...second to non...and fish will hit it !
Through the years this pattern has proven it self as a top killer - and very invaluable during periods of hatching caddies.
During the summer a variety of different hatching insects will make their way up from the river bed some more distinctive than others but all of significant interest to the salmon parr and its trout cousin. These freshwater insects with their many appearances serve as their main diet and the impact that they have on the growing salmon is definitely of fundamental value in our fly fishing. On a few occasions I have witnessed adult salmon take part in the feast of hatching insects - alongside with fellow trout.
Hatching insects is not a necessity to enjoy good dry fly fishing for salmon but their is no doubt that a big hatch of specific insects calls upon particular flies. If you are curious on dry fly fishing for Atlantic salmon: try to visit our web site on www.fishmadman.com....

See you out their

Fish regards Jesper Fohrmann, Per Fischer

All time legendary fly fisher Lee Wulff wrote in his book: Lee Wulff on flies 1979, about his early experiments with dry flies and skaters tied on plastic tube. Through the last 13 years I have worked with big dry fly Bomber tied on plastic tube.
I fish rivers in Nothern Norway and use big white Bombers to locate the salmon in broad shallow rivers.
Prior to my design of the Tube-bombers I would use flies tied on: big single Wilson hooks or similar streamer hooks. The flies tied on such relatively heavy iron wouldn't stay long on top. Weight and the sheer impact that they would have hitting the water would soon make the dry-flies - wet-flies. The big high riding tube-dries that I had designed soon proved to be very effective fish-catchers....The feather-light fly with the lifelike silhouette...would have a skittering motion on the surface that was hens any action one could expect from the old-type Bomber.....And a new standard was born.  Visit our website for more information or photos of flies www.fishmadman.com

See you out their

Fish regards
Jesper Fohrmann, Per Fisher