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$Bottle vs. cylinder - Two identical tube flies tied on an aluminum bottle (left) and a plastic cylinder (right). The visual differences are small: the translucent vs. the shiny tube and the smaller head on the bottle, and there\'s a difference in weight too of course.$

Bottle vs. cylinder

The basic plastic tube fly

Lined plastic tube

Cotton swabs

Bidoz bottles

Fly Co. Morrum tubes

Eumer Solid Conehead Body tube

Fly Co. Shumakov Longrange tubes

Lining

Fly Co. Shumakov Summer tubes

Oracle Fly Tying bottle tubes

Rooney brass tubes

Rooney plastic tubes

Scierra River Bullets

Slipstream tubes

Eumer Body tubes with coneheads

Eumer Crayfish tube

Eumer fluorescent Teardrop tubes

Eumer short Body tubes with cones

Eumer Teardrop tubes

Fly Co deepwater tubes

Fly Co lowwater tubes

Fly Co US tubes

Fly Co clear tube

Fly Co clear tube with cones

Fly Co colored tube

Fly Co copper tube

Fly Co micro tube

Fly Co soft tube

Tubes on display

Cones and tubes on display

Tubez spoken here

Tubes explained

Colors, shapes and sizes

Dustball

Purple Inkspot

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