Tube Bomber TM
Super silver salmon fresh out of the sea. New fish are eager to hit the dry fly - as long as temperatures are rising
A classic in a modern way...
Legendary fly fisher Lee Wulff wrote in his book: Lee Wulff On Flies in 1979 about his early experiments with dry flies and skaters tied on plastic tube. Below you will find our tying instructions for Bombers tied on tube that we have used for some 13 years with great success.
When tying your own salmon dry flies on tube you will find that you can create huge dry flies with no significant weight
Fly will stay high on the water...something that we have found to be very important when fishing for Atlantic salmon Read more
You will also get a fly that will stay afloat much longer due to low weight even big Bombers and other dry flies like The Monster Tube Caddis TM or Stone fly imitations will be feather light - compared to the same fly tied on a big iron.
We recommend a short shank wide gape hook at the end of the fly...This will give you a perfect hook-up. You can change to single, double or treble hooks according to your choice or the rules of the river keeper. Buy hooks!
When hooking up with salmon the tube-fly will disconnect from the hook and run up the leader. This will equalize any leverage problem that otherwise could have occur using a fly tied on a big iron. When the hook is disconnected from the fly it is also much easier to de-hook the fish while the fly stay unharmed above the jaws of the fish
In case your fishing on catch and release water the smaller hooks that you can use on these flies are less damaging to the fish than that of the big irons
Good luck ! Jesper Fohrmann & Per Fischer 2008
Tube Bomber TM in orange...A good colour for many Newfoundland rivers Buy flies
Tube Bomber TM in aqua - Also a top colour in Canadian rivers. Buy flies
In my experience late season runners are more eager to rise to darkish pattern. Here a Black & White Tube Bomber TM did the job. Water temperature 6 degrees Celsius (42,8 degrees Fahrenheit) Buy flies
Black Tube Bombe TM.... A super fly for late season salmon Buy flies
Black Tube Bombe TM.... In a Hi-ViZ version Buy flies
Green Tube Bomber TM a most effective pattern for Northern Norway Buy flies
Moth of the Geometridae family maybe it is the plentifulness of these insects that makes the Bomber pattern particularly good in some river systems.
A ghost like shadow appearing underneath the Tube Bomber - This is definitely a fish to spend some time with. For such occasions make sure to keep different sizes of flies in the same pattern Read more..
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