inexpensive (ghetto) tube fly tutorial

[Rob Snowhite]

matterials:

bobbin
thread
IV tubing
clamp -home depot for about a buck
surveyor flag – free since they are all over the yard on the ground

clamp the flag to the end of a table

cut a piece of IV tube to size, put it over the wire, place under clamp so it won’t rotate

tie the pattern you want

[Neal Osborn]

Intriguing setup Rob.

[Michael Exl]

I’ll stick with my HMH with the European needle and using the FITS tubes.

[keith b]

OK, someone educate me here.

[Michael Exl]

Thread the tippet through the tube. Tie on a hook, usually a egg or octopus hook. Insert the the eye of the hook inside the tube. When a fish takes the fly the hook is pulled out of the tube and the fly moves up the leader protecting from damage.

[keith b]

Got It!
makes sense.

[Michael Exl]

Any really. Tubes are more popular with salmon and steelhead fishing, but I have used them for carp, smallmouth, and saltwater.

[Rob Snowhite]

not the best image to help the above descriptions, but here is the same or similar fly in a vise with a circle  hook in the back end of the tube {edit) with mono going in the front.

as i’ve just gotten into these, i plan to make foam poppers for bass, streamers for stripers, smallies, and trout.

[keith b]

what keeps the fly from riding down on the hook too much and getting stuck?

[Rob Snowhite]

I have yet to hook a fish on one of my tubes. I have yet to encounter that.

I could tightly wrap the but section of the tube like a corset to prevent the eye moving up, or use a hook with a big eye. Trial and error will only tell.

[Rob Snowhite]

Caught a beautiful brown last week on the colorado on one of my tube flies. That had been a goal of mine for the year. I have confirmed they work

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