Tube Fly Help

[Michael Exl]

I just got started tying tube flies, and I was wondering how many of you guys use the metal tubes. I will be fishing the Lake Michigan tribs using sink tips and wondering if they will help out a lot, or my tips should be fine. Thanks in advance.

[riptide]

I use metal tubes a lot for trout and salmon.  Metal tubes will help you out if you want to avoid the probleme of have a bag form in your line when your tips are sinking but your plastic tube is floating higher in the water column.  When this happens you have to pull all the slack out of the “bag” before your hook set hits the fish.

For the most part, aluminum tubes should serve the purpose most of the time, and they are not that difficult to cast.  If you really need to get deep, you can go to the copper tubes but they are much harder to cast.  Tube flies are a lot of fun, enjoy the journey

[yuhina]

Me and my friends use very heavy tube flies for river stripers. I attached the heavy cone to the plastic tubes and burn the “mouth” end to lock in the corn head. This also create a nice smooth “lip”. This is “shock and awe” style flyis developed from a friend – Anil in puget sound area WA. It sink and swim extremely well. I am learning cast this heavy flies with skagit shooting head…(not sure if this work for the traditional spey though) might have some report later…here is the photo

[Michael Exl]

Thanks for the input guys, I really appreciate it. I will be using a skagit line mostly when using the flies. I like those flies, I might have to tie some of them up for the smallmouth by me.

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