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Originally Posted by lvlacleod
Super stuff.
I've got loads of brass, tungsten and aluminium tubes in 3 different lengths and I can't see how you could possibly tie anything on the shortest ones.
I really want to tie my own and don't want to be put off at the 1st hurdle.
Are there any decent step by steps anywhere for tying tube flies? Preferrably looking for picture step by steps as opposed to video tutorials.
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I'll do a step by step for you tonight. Let me know which size of tube you're starting off with then. The shorter heavy tubes, you really don't have much room at all to tie a fly, so instead you tie in a small amount of materials just to represent the colours of a salmon fly.
The clear tubing at the rear of the pic is nylon tubing and the thinner clear tube is the liner tubing which goes inside the tube (fly). With the liner tubing a thinner diameter there's not so much of an angle for your line to hinge and rub on the tube. I've seen plenty people fish tubes without any liner tubing though.
The black tubing is harder plastic with a length os suitable liner tubing inserted through it.
Then you have the slipstream tube which comes in copper. alu, plastic and stout plastic. These come in various lengths from 1/2" up to 2". I believe you can get 2.5" copper tubes.
The next two are bottle tubes, self explanatory with the shape but they have extensions built into them where the extension tubing will go.
The wee one at the front is a small tungsten tube.
This pic shows the length of extension tubing, which you can buy in clear or a range of colours to suit the colour of your fly, or the mood you're in.
The extension tubing is solely to hold the hook in place, so it slips over the tubing gripping it tight, or slips over the extension on the bottles. They eye of the large single, double or treble hooks wedges in the rear end of the extension tubing keeping it in place during the cast and fishing. Once a fish takes the tubes (especially larger) tend to break away from the extension tubing leaving only the hook itself in the fishes mouth. Less leverage to pull the hook out.
Most tubes come without liner tubing which you can buy to fit the exact diameter of each tube.
The slipstream tubes come pre-lined which makes things easy and quick.
Where you are adding your own liner tubing, you cut the liner a couple of mm longer than needed, and using a lighter a few cm's from the liner, let it heat up and it starts to shrink back on itself and comes to rest, in that nice circular fashion, against the face of the tube itself. You will set fire to a few pieces of liner before you judge the distance just right. I did.
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