Question:
On page 11 in T & S no. 6 2002 there is a picture of a tube fly for salmon
on sea trout. Do anyone got the pattern or description on how to tie this
tubes?
Answer:
Feelers Six boar bristles curving upwards,a sparse bunch of brown bucktail
and a few strands of gold flashabou or pearl mylar.Follow these materials
with four turns of a long-fibred hackle the same shade as the body. Pull the
fibres down to form a beard hackle.
Body brown dubbing, yarn or Antron woundto form a fat cone .Body hackle Dark
red cock .Ribbing Oval gold tinsel. The ribbing completed, trim away the
hackle fibres from the top of the body.Back a pair of jungle-cock hackles
secured in a flat"V".
