I have tied a lot of big hair-winged tube the last two months, but salmon (or trout for that matter) isn’t always interested in the big juicy flies! So today was a tie-up-small-tubes-for-treble-hook day and I got some in different color variations to see how they come together. All flies are done with Arctic Fox and/or temple dog.
Lime & Black:
Blue & Black:
Orange & Black
Blue & Black with flash on a red tube:
Yellow & Black with a experiment on the head:
Tail: Golden Pheasant Topping
Butt: Black Ostrich Herl
Body: UNI-Floss Dark Rust, Lagartun Varnished French Tinsel Oval
Hackle: Veniard Chinese Cock Cape Doctor Blue
Wing: Wapsi Turkey Quill, Peacock
Cheek: Golden Pheasant
For this weeks “Something Old” I tried to find something about the history of the tube fly (since I have been tying a lot of it lately), I found this article talking about the origin of the tube and Mr. Alexander Wanless who in “The Angler And The Thread Line” from 1932 describes this fly (see the plate on the article referenced). Well: not much of description, rather a picture of it, so I set out with what I had in my box of material (that resembled) and came up with this one.
Together with the main materials:
For this weeks photo challenge: a old memorial coin that I have inherited
With the recent adventure in tube and zonkers I had to end up with this eventually: a white rabbit zonker from Wapsi with different hackle color. The material should flow really nice in the water, but I have no experience with something like this in a river. There will be a lot of testing this summer, that’s for sure!
Tied up some more of the micro zonker tubes that I did the other day. The pattern is great and fairly easy to do, the only thing I changed this time was to add JC to the sides of it.
In hand for scale:
I have had some patches of deer in different colors around for a long time, and with the recent adventure into salmon bombers on tube I had to tie up a few in different combinations!
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