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Hello again, Naturally this is not a substitute to river tests, but when you go to river, dont you think it would be nice to have only the kind of flys in your box, that you absolutely know that are reliable and working well. One very important thing you can see with this device, is balance, referring to the video in our homepage, there is a fly that looks good, but when you sink it in this device, you can see that its not so good after all. This has happened to even many "professional" flytyier. About dead drift, sure you can adjust the water speed and create the dead drift with this device that way. T

Hi Thank you all for your replys, seems that some like the idea and some not so much, but this was the stuff we were expecting. The idea when we started developing this device, was to make flytyiers testing as fun and easy as possible, don´t you think it´s nice to see what you have achieved right after finished tying, you can just sit back on your desk and sink your fly to this tank and watch...and hopefully notice that, yes, I did it again. Although we have seen that in Finland even some professionals have discovered that not all flys they made are so perfect as thought... It´s absolutely not the point to make this "testing" so much a scientifical thing to do, but more like fun stuff to do. We also belive that if you are passionet enough to read and write in this kind of forums, you probably are quite passionet flytyier and so you might like to have this device on your desk...but then again, maybe we are wrong... Well, I could write a novel about this, so maybe it´stime to stop here, and maybe some one will continue this discussion.... Thanks again Toni

Hi ! SmallieHunter: That sounds an interesting idea, contact us about that, unfortunately we don´t have any retailers in US, but we are looking for an agent or wholesaler in there, so if anyone can help us with that, we would be very thankful. TroutBum: Ofcourse a garden hose and wading pool may work as well, but it might be just a littlebit tough to do that in your flytying desk, instead you can use Kalax and you don´t have to set up hose and all, because Kalax is allways ready for you to put your flys in it. And naturally you can see fly from "fishview" right after you made your flys. At the moment as I said before, we don´t have retailers in US, but estimated retail pricewill be around 200 usd. Kindly Toni

Hello guys! In last few years I have developed a Kalax flytesting device. It all started from my intrest to streamers and salmonflies and their behavior under water. I managed to get the device in excellent shape, water goes exactly the way I want. By the time I got the device working I found my self more and more tying flies...well I did that a lot few years ago when I didnt have the device even in my dreams, but now as I said I ty all the time... Well, reason I decided to write here, was that, I would like to get an information and opinions from other flytyiers about this Kalax device, ( http://www.kalax.net so far we manufactor very small quantitys), in northern europe flyfishers have told me that this is absolutely excellent device to on your desk, but what are opinions in USA !!!??? Please write your comments. Kindly Toni Karhukorpi Finland