Tube Flies

[cdpaul]

I got a adapter that gray ghost sent to me and tied a few flies, mostly boa leaches and a few egg sucking leeches. I need some ideas of what else to tie. Mostly for steelhead and salmon. I will try to get some pictures up. Thanks

[Bass_Bug]

Here's a few sites I had bookmarked for tube flies in case my wish list for the 25th pans out.

http://www.canadiantubeflies.com/tube-flies.html
http://www.madriveroutfitters.com/c-460-tube-flies.aspx
http://www.greatlakestubeflies.com/tube_flies.html

Just about anything you can tie on a hook, you can tie on a tube.

[Normand]

heres more ideas

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&r...65&safe=active

[Donald Nicolson]

If you are looking for tube fly ideas,
here is a good place to look.

http://ukflydressing.proboards.com/

Have a look under Sea Trout

By the way Sewin is Welsh for Sea run browns.

[TyroneFly]

Here is a link to Eumer website classroom which as video instructions you might find helpful.

http://www.eumertube.com/tyinginstructions.php

[pittendrigh]

Snellies, like the Pig Sticker

Tube flies are one way to make a long but relatively lite fly with a standard length hook at the rear
end. Many will tell you (like me) that long shank streamer hooks make it easier for a fish to
throw the hook. So that and the liter weight of a tube fly are a big advantage.

But tubes are not the only way to accomplish those same two goals. You can, for instance,
tie a long lite-weight fly on a snelled hook. That way you get a third advantage:
end-to-end action and flexibility on the fly.

In other words it is possbile to make this:


look like this: (or any other material/shape/color combination you can think of)


How to do it steps can be viewed here (notice the links to other steps at page bottom...once you get there)
http://montana-riverboats.com/?page=...yout=robopages

[jeremy.badgett]

I have experimented with tube flies and actually like using them for pike fishing as they keep the flies from getting chewed up and I can use a small steel leader and keep it hidden. I am very intrigued by pittendrigh's posted pictures. these flies are something that I am going to have to take a look at experimenting with this winter tying and next summer fishing.

[pittendrigh]

I wonder if there isn't a relatively fat Kevlar thread you could make a long fly on....instead of monofilament.
That way you could--perhaps--make a Pike-proof fly and yet still preserve some end-to-end flexibility.

I sometimes make little slip-knot wire leader rigs for cinching onto the bend of a bonefish fly. That way, If you stumble
across a big barracuda you don't have to change the whole leader....you just slip-knot a 12" wire leader onto the bend of the bonefish fly,
with a short bit of 30lb mono between wire leader and bonefish hook.
I've had good luck with that rig. But it is stiff and difficult to cast.

[Bass_Bug]

Standard Kevlar tying thread (which is typically 3/0?) could be furled or even just plain braided with three pieces to produce short sections to make a fly like Pittendrigh shows. Or braid 2 pieces of Kevlar with one piece of copper tying wire? It would be like adding a thread core to peacock herl to strengthen it.