I found a great book in the library: Joseph Bate's "Bucktails and Streamers" (1979). This book has a great history of fly fishing, some really great old patterns, and some wonderfully sage advice on fishing.

In the book, he talks about tube flys. I did a search on the web and the one's that I found did not resemble the one's he talks about in the book.

The tube flys in this book consist of a piece of monofilament attached to a treble hook. There are two tubes on the monafilament and he explains the history and talks about using surgical tubing and metal tubes. On each tube, is tied various forms of hackle, bucktail, etc.

I find this interesting and wonder if anyone ties or uses flys such as this. This seems like it would have great action in the water since the tubes are independent and would give some great movement.

I know that small plastic tubes can be purchased in craft shops and might be good for this.

dc

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Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they
are after.

Henry David Thoreau