catch Report

Catch rep

August 2009

Mr. Bill Bryden from Eureka Outdoors Inc. has sent us this great report from the “cradle of dry fly fishing for salmon” in Canada.

Bill runs a top lodge with access to superior dry fly rivers - and a steady run of big salmon. You will find more information on Bill´s establishment if you go to :

www.eurekaoutdoors.nf.ca

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

“Tina holding a trophy salmon caught on your Monster Tube Caddis” Buy flies

Picture; curtsey of Mr. Bill Bryden Eureka Sports

A super dry fly fish ! Buy flies

Picture; curtsey of Mr. Bill Bryden Eureka Sports

“Another big salmon to your Monster Tube Caddis. You can see the fly hanging out of the mouth” Buy flies

Picture; curtsey of Mr. Mark Butcher

Super 40 by 21 inch dry fly salmon Buy flies

Picture; curtsey of Mr. Mark Butcher

Dry summer in Northern Norway

The mighty Reppafjord river in Northern Norway - Was suffering from extreme draught during July 2009 and was showing absolute bones. In conditions like these fish are concentrated near the big holding pools and are easily scared. The dry fly angler can do 10 fold better than the fly fisher with the sub surface fly.

Here from Red Zone in the end of June 2009 - “Mark stein”

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