Published Jan 1. 2001 - 23 years ago
Updated or edited Nov 3. 2022

Bob Kenly

Staff writer Bob Kenly - tube fly meister par excellence

Tube flies
UV-resin, epoxy and LCR's

Bob Kenly with 13 lbs of silver from the Kuskokwim River, Alaska

Bob Kenly - owner of the company Nordic Way Tube Flies - is one of the rare American tube fly tyers. Tube flies are a typical Scandinavian thing, but you will probably see more and more flies tied on tubes all over the world.
As Bob puts it: "I think my big reason for turning to them is portability".
One bag of flies and a small container with hooks of your choice, and you're set for days of salmon and steelhead fishing. And with Bob's flies, which are made with epoxy, the flies will last a whole season.
Bob ties tube flies profesionally and is usually booked up early as he does all his own tying. All tying done in the home office in a dedicated area. And we're talking quality flies. Average actual tying time per fly (not including drying and curing of different stages of fly) 1/2 hour.
Says Bob: "My preference is to fish with a two handed rod which increases the laughs
from fishing partners as I sometimes wack myself with my flies".

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Comments

Submitted by Tom on Wed, 2012-11-07 04:29
Bob! Long time no r...

Bob!
Long time no read!!!!!
I'll try that recipe ASAP!

And above all,
greetings from Ljubljana!

Tom

Submitted by Jeffrey Howard on Tue, 2009-04-07 23:07
How much does Eumer ...

How much does Eumer vise cost?

Submitted by helen.walsh on Sat, 2008-07-05 06:53
Dear Dad, How prou...

Dear Dad,
How proud I was to find this on the internet, your story, your flies, what you've been up to lately. The Salbot Fly ..It's beautiful. I am his daughter, Helen , and my father is a genius. Always has been with so many talents. Believe it or not he wanted to be a history teacher. My father tied a fly just for me and framed it, where it sits on my wall to this day and is a conversation piece of friends who come to my home. The Pattern was Davy's Prawn with a Partridge hook , size 1/0. I love you dad, you look wonderful.

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Bob Kenly authored or co-authored this

Article
Aug 23. 2013
Remote People in Alaska say there are two seasons, winter and the visiting season. Part two of Bob Kenly's story from Homer Spit, Alaska
Read it here
Article
Jun 29. 2013
Remote Find yourself in the parking lot of a bar and restaurant surrounded by three hundred and sixty degrees of the prettiest country in the world.
Homer Spit Alaska
Article
Oct 6. 2012
Yummy One of the very best halibut recipes is Halibut Iliamna, a baked dish with a white cheese topping, an Alaskan iconic offering not seen except for in Alaska.
Find the recipe here
Article
Jan 4. 2012
Epoxy Who else than epoxy wizard (and madman) Bob Kenly would take on tying... eh, building... eh, constructing a Mantis Shrimp as a fly? Follow the project this article where you can read Bob's story about the fly and see pictures of the process and the finished fly.
Join in here
Article
Oct 20. 2010
Tube flies "See what you can do with these" said Stuart Anderson, who owns the Canadian Tube Fly Company to Bob Kenly who often goes berserk with tubes and epoxy. And that's exactly what Bob did. He started painting the raw tubes.
Read more about it here
Article
Oct 20. 2010
Tube flies Bob Kenly takes a turn with some tubes from the Canadian Tube Fly Company and converts a traditional Irish fly into something... let's just say not as traditional. So Chris's Irish Shrimp turned into Great Lakes Orange, a steelhead pattern tied on a tube.
See the pattern description here.
Article
Aug 11. 2008
Tubed 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.
Here the result of the two events.
Article
Sep 3. 2007
Experiments 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 
Bob's article is the place to look.
Article
Jul 29. 1999
Construction On the surface the job was simple, come up with some pike flies for my friend's teenage son's trip to Canada, something small enough that a teenager can handle and still tempt a pike.
Article
Feb 9. 1998
Spinner 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.
By Bob Kenly
Article
Sep 3. 1997
Special The Gladiator started as a joke but one with a lot of thought behind its origins.
This is it
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