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Tube Flies
Flies tied on plastic or metal tubes rather than hooks

The Test Tube

Futurama: A weird and futuristic construction from the archives. Really easy to tie... eh, make... uhm... construct... Metal, plastic and glue.
See how to go about it here

Peeete's Pheather'
n'Phlash

Phly welding: AKA Peeete's Welded Wide Body Tunnel Hull Pheather'n'Phlash Tube Phly. The name is complex, but the fly is simple, showing how to build a large baitfish imitation with few and easily accessible materials - and Pete Gray's neat welding technique.
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Go to the article "The tube fly needle"

The tube fly needle
"Nize" is found here

Nize
This link takes you to "New tube materials"

New tube materials
Skip to "Danish tube fly inspiration"

Danish tube fly inspiration
Find "HKA Sunray/Bismo" on this page

HKA Sunray/Bismo
Go to "Black Ghost Tube"

Black Ghost Tube
"Spider NJ" is found here

Spider NJ
Go to "Raven NJ"

Raven NJ
Skip to "PET Blue NJ"

PET Blue NJ
More about "Coloring Raw Tubes"

Coloring Raw Tubes
Go to "The Great Lakes Irish Invaders"

Great Lakes Irish Invaders
See "The Barbell Tube" by clicking here

The Barbell Tube
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Prairie Dog - Tube Fly
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A great tube pattern we came up with a few years ago. Tied "in the round" this is a nice simple pattern that works!
Double Down Shrimp
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Great fly for sight fishing any fish that eats shrimp!
Clouser Minnow on a Eumer Tube
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A very easy version of a Clouser minnow tied on a Eumer tube.
Pike Fly
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A pike fly on Eumer Plastic tubing
Chartreuse Lazer Flex Tube Fly
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Our best selling tube fly pattern tied on Flex Tube. the transparent Flex Tube base of this fly and covering strip of Lazer Wrap (Edge Brite) makes this pattern glow under water.
Russian Intruder Tube Fly - Turquoise
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Here it is, the RUSSIAN INTRUDER TUBE FLY. Our best selling pattern for the past 4 years!
Russian Bullet Tube Fly
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A tube pattern from start to finish that uses the late Juri Shumakovs' Russian Bullet style of tube tying!
Popsicle
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A start to finish video on how to tie a Popsicle tube fly.
Blue Whisp
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An easy to tie "spey" fly that works well on winter steelhead.
Yellow Belly
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A Shumakov Long Range Tube that is our favourite for coastal trout.
Claret and Purple
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The "Claret & Purple" is our tube version of a fly that has landed us many steelhead over the years. the pattern uses Grey Heron feathers that are simply beautiful.
Grey&Green Tremple Dog
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Salmon and Seatrout approved early spring fly
Foamhead Tubefly
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The egg sucking leech tubefly
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The egg sucking leech is one of the most used Steelhead patterns. This time I will show you how to tie this fly very quick and in a way it comes alive in the water. A very nice fly you can tie in just a couple minutes. Be sure to take some of these with you when you go out fishing! Thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe! Music by: Jay-B
Flatwing Sandeel
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Seatrout/saltwater fly: The Flatwing Sandeel
TubeFly15
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Shrimp style fly tied on Eumer crayfish tube. In Finnish, but easy to follow.
Tube: Aluminum Eumer Crayfish
Thread: Red
Tail: Olive nutria + paddles from olive hackle
Front: Olive ice dubbing + olive cock
Wing: Black-yellow nutria + 4pcs red Amherst fibers
Head: Red thread

Rambulance
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Tying Bruce Berry's Rambulance
Cured Prawn
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Silver Glödhäck
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Anton Pousar tying a scandinavian style tube fly for salmon called Silver Glödhäck. Me and Anton were doing a fly tying workshop and I decided to film his part for my blog. It was pretty tough to edit because there was lots of stuff I needed to cut out and speed up because the tying was focused for the tyers at the workshop, not the video. I just tried to be out of the way mostly with my camera.

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Fast&Slim, easy tube fly
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A very easy way to tie a good tube fly. This works great in all sizes! Swedish narration, but easy to follow visuals.

About "Tube Flies - Flies tied on plastic or metal tubes rather than hooks" from Blog Creek – GFF's weblog
· Deep sea flies - Flies for fishing deep. Not my ususal kind of flies, but sometimes you need weight.
· A different tube system - And I mean really, really different. Really!

  
 Go to Make 'Em Swim
Make 'Em Swim
Swedish Michael Frödins newest DVD about his FITS tube fly system and the new turbo discs, which make the flies vibrate, pulse and move more water than using a traditional cone. The fly comes more alive, but are they more fish catching? At least eye catching.
  
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Très Bien
This is another bright tube fly for clear water designed by Danish fly tyer Ken Bonde Larsen. And another one that uses a cone to add weight to the front of the fly. And another one, where the metal cone can be replaced by a common head or a plastic cone.
  
 Go to The Dirty White
The Dirty White
We continue our series of tube flies tied in the Scandinavian style. This fly is another subdued yellow, white and gray fly, well suited for bright light and clear water. It uses a mallard hackle to create a nice, closed shape.
  
 Go to The Overtaker
The Overtaker
A small black tube fly inspired by the classical Undertaker and flies like the Green Butt. This small fly shows that bube flies do not have to be large. It's petite, it's black and it's sexy with a small hotspot.
  
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Bon Aventure flies
Do you know what flies to tie for clear water and how to tie them? Follow the Danish flytier Ken Bonde Larsen carefully tie some attractive and yet not too visible flies for the Canadian salmon. Tubes are his favorite and some with new plastic discs.
  
 Go to Chinese White
Chinese White
A bright tube fly for salmon in clear water created by Danish Ken Bonde Larsen. Tied in the Scandinavian style with a large and soft hair wing made of several layers. Easy to tie and impressive both in and out of the water.
  
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Bon A(d)venture-Day 2
Follow Kasper Mühlbach on his second day on Bon Aventure. A day of which he did not expect the big catches but the day turned out to as good as the first. Clear water, white tails, ospreys and 
  
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Staring Sunray Shadow
Ray Brook's classic the Sunray Shadow can hardly be outdone by any variation of this simple yet very efficient fly. But some people still like to add little details to killer patterns. This version of the Sunray has a body and eyes.
  
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Bon A(d)venture-Day 1
Two days of fishing in one of the world's clearest salmon rivers, Bon Aventure, Gaspé, French Canada. Follow Kasper Mühlbach for two days on this renowned river, famous for it's fantastic dry fly fishing for salmon but also known for plenty of grilse and larger atlantic salmon.
  
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A Pheasant Under Glass
Two seemingly unrelated events led tube fly tyer par excellence Bob Kenly to this method of tying and to discover a coloring system that I have never tried before: dyed Lady Amherst tail feathers and a note requesting something different to be thrown in the water for salmon in New Foundland.
  
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The two Rangá's
East and West Rangá are two of Iceland's most productive salmon rivers. GFF Partner Martin Joergensen had the chance to fish both this summer, and thinks back on a productive trip to a beautiful island - and on mud and rain.
  
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A Mad Epoxy Tier
Bob Kenly is reknowned for his radically different epoxy tube flies. This article recaps his experience with epoxy - and adds advice on coloring epoxy. If you want some truths about epoxy - and want to witness the death of a couple of myths 
  
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Styles and Patterns
Tube flies - like most other fly types - come in as many shapes and styles as you can imagine. This article merely scratches the surface in an attempt to list some of them. I also touches upon a few aspects of tying one tubes.
  
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Tube Flies Two
Tube fly books are few and far apart and the moment Martin Joergensen learned that this one was coming, he knew it was a must for him. Mark Mandell and GFF contributor Bob Kenly have gathered a bunch of the most innovative and influential tube fly tyers in this book.
  
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Tube Tying Techniques
Have tube, will tie... but how to go about it? How do you actually manage to tie on a tube? Well, it's much like tying on a hook, just different. Learn to tie on plastic, metal, bottles, compound and rear tubes.
  
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Tube Tools
More information on tube tools than you ever thought you needed - from the lowly sowing needle to the full-blown several-hundred-dollar vise, and a lot inbetween. This article teaches you essential knowledge about how to hold a tube - any tube - while tying on it.
  
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Tube Ressources
Want to venture further into the world of tube flies? This list of material suppliers, tools, vises, DVD's, books and much more will give you links to many more hours of entertaining reading and viewing.
  
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Tube Flies
This is the all-time classical volume on tube flies, and as the subtitle "A tying, fishing and historical guide" implies it deals with all aspects of tube flies. If you are looking for a general introduction to tubes in book-form, this is the way to go.
  
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Tube Styles
If you think that a tube for a tube fly is a cylindrical piece of plastic, then you are in for a surprise. This article will present more tube styles than most fly tyers ever imagined, and probably teach even seasoned tubers a thing or two.
  
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Tube Basics
This is the first article in the GFF Tube Fly Theme: An introduction to the concept of tube flies and some arguments for using tubes rather than hooks. The article will give you a basic knowledge about tube flies and prepare you for the rest of the theme.
  
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Tube Fly Turmoil
Tube flies are flies tied on a tube rather than a hook. But putting it that simple is almost a crime, because tubes have evolved dramatically over the last few years, and bottles, rear tubes, Shomakov tubes, FITS tubes and all sorts of new systems have seen the light of day.
  
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Convertible tubes
Tube fly tyer Tony Pagliei explains his Convertible Tube Flies - a modular system that combines a set of tube tied front parts and a set of dressed hooks into as many different flies as you can imagine in a versatile, modular system.
  
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Dual Tube Phlyz
In an effort to entice larger striped muggers (stripers) during the spring herring run on Cape Cod when big fish venture back into the shallow estuaries to the herring runs, Pete Gray started tying 8-12+ inches herring flies on double tubes.
  
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Burning Man
This strange popper came out of Martin Joergensen's vice recently and has already proved its value several times. See why it might be interesting to you, how to tie it (in meticulous details) as well as how it moves - and in video too! And learn why it's called Burning Man.
  
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Sunray Shadow
The Sunray Shadow is a true killer fly for salmon fishing. Tied on a tube with a wing and no body, simple as few flies, but still - or maybe rather because of that - extremely efficient. The fly uses few materials and is very easy to tie.
  
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The Plipper
One of the strangest fly-contraptions ever to see daylight in GFF partner Martin Joergensen's vice (which has seen some strange flies). It's a tube fly. It uses one basic material. It's tied without thread. It's ugly, but it works. It's a popper with a lip - a Plipper.
  
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Hairwings & Tubes
With this book "Hairwing & Tube Flies for Salmon" Chris Mann has worked his way through yet another pile of flies sent to him from all over the world. And Chris Mann has done it again and provided us pattern-hungry fly tiers with a wealth of new patterns to inspire us.
  
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River Mandal
"I hate to ask you, but do you want to go salmon fishing for a week?" The voice of GFF partner Partin Joergensen's friend Ole sounded sincere enough and Martin went with him to Norway to fish for small salmon. But the outcome turned out to be a lot larger than standard grilse.
  
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SHCZCDNTM
Yep! It's yet another one of that Danish madman's muddlers. This time with an even longer name: The Short Heavy Chicago-Zürich-Copenhagen Delayed Nutria Tube Muddler or SHCZCDNTM for easier remembering!
  
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CZCDNTM
A tube fly is different - a muddler is me - a tube muddler is a perfect choice. Tube muddlers are not unknown to me. I have tied and fished a few in my time, and I like them... so do the fish by the way.
  
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Wadington shanks
Classics in a classic way. These flies may look like something of today, but the concept of Wadington shanks is old as Methusalem. Danish fly tyer Niels Have has converted four classics to effective flies for early salmon and sea trout fishing. See the pictures and patterns.
  
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Banderillas
The tube fly - or tube fly system - you can see on this page - is called the Banderillas. The name comes from the Spanish name for the sticks the the bullfigther uses during the fight. The body sections of this fly has some resemblance to these sticks.
  
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The Rocket
During a recent gettogether with some Danish flyfishers I hauled out some of my cod flies. One of them was this one - The Rocket. They were quite excited about the fly - first of all because it's a light tube fly, second because it's very durable. They saw in it not only the cod fly that I had made, but also a pike fly, a fly for pike perch and a universal fly for all kinds of deep fishing for larger fish.
  
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Sawada tubes
Niels Have's take on some Ken Sawada patterns - tied on tubes.
  
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Bob Kenly
Staff writer Bob Kenly - tube fly meister par excellence
  
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Cone head flies
The usual way of weighting a tube fly is by using copper or aluminum tubes. This article shows a totally different approach.
  
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The Flasher
The Flasher fly is not so much a fly as a method of adding a spinner to any tube fly which under certain circumstances enhances its attractiveness to almost any species of fish.
  
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Fisker tube tool
This Danish tool might be an alternative. In spite of some minor drawbacks, it's a very good tool at a very reasonable price.
  
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The Gladiator
The Gladiator started as a joke but one with a lot of thought behind it's origins. By Bob Kenly