I have fished with red tag many times after trout & grayling, so I don’t see why a scaled up tube-version shouldn’t work on salmon! Trying to keep it as simple as I can, I was tempted to add a red collar, but resisted and added two pieces of flash instead to match the silver wrapping in the body.
Tag: Orange Temple Dog
Body: Uni-floss green, Uni-French, Genetic Cock Saddle Green Highlander
Wing: Temple Dog: Orange, Yellow & Lime, peacock
Hackle: Spirit River Schlappen Black hackle
After experimenting with Sunray shadows all weekend I ended up freestyling this tube with the material I have available. I really like how this turned out: the orange/green/yellow combination should be a real treat in the water , the only thing I would like to see in addition would be a disc/conehead and maybe a Jungle Cock side
Wing: Sunburst yellow Foxtail, Orange Foxtail, Red Arctic Fox, Peacock
Neck: black Foxtail underhair
Cone: Eumertube
Another chapter in me doing things I really have no idea on how to do: I bought some foxtail and templedog pieces a little while ago to tie up some tube flies (and for large streamers), and I finally sat down and created my first ones. It took a couple of tries to get a feel for this way of creating flies, but I’m warming up to the idea. I will be testing these in saltwater first to see how they actually behave (have never fished with tube before).
One without the neck:
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