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Friday January 15th 2010
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A different tube system

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Published: Friday January 15th 2010 (3 years ago)
Updated: Sunday October 28th 2012, 11:34AMMore about: Fly tying materials | Tube flies |
by Martin Joergensen

And I mean really, really different. Really!

Danish Morten Bundgaard approached me just before Christmas regarding a new tube system he had made for tube fly tying.
He sent me a link to a makeshift web site and I was immediately intrigued, because what I saw was radically different from anything I had seen before with regards to tubes. And as those of you who know me know that I have seen quite a bit, most of it covered in my large tube fly theme.

Morten's tube system is a rethought, modular system where each component is meticulously designed for its purpose. Most traditional tube systems consist of simple cylindrical tubes in different diameters, which you combine to your needs. You can add cones and dishes as well as different weights or add-ons. A lot of the contemporary systems such as those from Bidoz, Eumer and the late Shumakov introduce some premade shapes to the tubes, enabling the tyer to create different types of patterns.

But Morten takes a different approach. His system is in a way traditional with simple universal elements, which you combine to your needs, but the individual parts themselves are much more thought through, and are injection molded to get some special shapes and function into the tubes. Rather than straight pieces of tube, tubes in the Pro Tube System have bumps, stops, tapers and holes in the sides, which all serve a purpose in the finished fly. The individual parts of course fit together with the other elements in the system, and you can combine them in many ways.

A very small selection of the many components


You can get cones in several shapes, made of different materials and small propellers to add in front of your fly to induce even more attraction into your creation.
Morten has been kind enough to send me some samples and as soon as I get the time (ha!), I'll sit down and tie and shoot some photos of the parts and the flies themselves. Until then you can savor the large selection of parts on the Pro Tubefly System homepage.

PS: in an early stage of our correspondence Morten also showed me some tube fly vice designs, which looked very interesting. Hopefully these will find their way to the market as an addition to the selection of different tube tools already out there.

Flies tied with the new tubes





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From: Martin Joergensen · martin·at·globalflyfisher.com  Link
Submitted March 9th 2013

Bob,

The company is now called Pro Sportfisher, and has a page on their web site with a reference to US distribution, but not much information. There is a contact form you might try to use.

Martin


From: Bob Edens · bedens·at·shaw.ca  Link
Submitted March 9th 2013

Who has the North American distributor ship and how can our shop contact them.


From: Neil Houlding · nhoulding·at·rogers.com  Link
Submitted January 15th 2010

As you say Martin, very innovative system.
Those of us that tie tube flies have seen a number of different ideas this past few years but I believe this new system is going to the one that takes the cake.
We are in the process of setting up a distributor for North America and hope to have the product in shops asap.
If any one has any questions or enquiries please contact me at your leisure.
Regards Neil.



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