Mar 18, 2017 · Tube Flies have gained popularity for many kinds of game fish. In the last ten years, this type of fly has become extremely popular for winter steelhead, especially in our local area.

Tube fly patterns can be tied on either plastic, aluminum, copper, stainless steel, or brass tubes in various sizes. The lightest flies are tied on plastic tubes, many of our customers find these most useful for waking flies or any situation that calls for a low water pattern.

A video covering everything you need to know to tie tube flies for salmon, seatrout, predator and saltwater fishing - covering fly vice adapters, tube types,...

Sep 18, 2022 · WHY USE TUBE FLIES? Adaptability: Weight (when legal) - You can use weighted metal tubes or weighted cones/discs to add weight to a fly, while maintaining the same profile as an unweighted version. Hooks - You have the ability to use smaller and shorter hooks.

Modern tube fly hooks come in a wide variety of sizes typically ranging from #12 to about #2, but you can use other types of hooks, short shank, straight eye saltwater hooks and bait fishing hooks as the most popular alternatives to tube flies.

Incorporate brass tube bodies, cones and beads to add or adjust sink rates of flies. All kinds of existing patterns can be improved by tying them as convertible tubes: woolly buggers, zonkers, leeches, fresh and saltwater baitfish patterns, deceivers, clousers, even small or large nymphs.

The Tube Fly Shop presents a range of tube flies and fly tying tubes from Grays of Kilsyth, a Scottish fly shop specialising in salmon flies, sea trout flies and trout flies.