Thanks!Zak,
The green tubing is the hook guide. I would suggest checking out some of Sportfisher Pro Tube videos on you tube. It's a solid platform. The cone is definitely not necessary. I basically use it to break the surface tension of the water. And it just tops it off and makes it pretty to me! View attachment 49218
Fantastic ideas! I'm going to check this option out. Thanks for sharing....If you've got kids and you buy one of those "Bunch O Balloon" thingies at Costco you'll have a lifetime supply of tubes for tying. Ditto for bulk WD-40 tubes. Amazon product ASIN B07DHZRRW7
Don't think the cost of tubes is going to make or break anyone but if you're the kind of guy that likes to save a buck here and there they seem to work fine.
Tried this, and works to some extent. I burn back the tips of my tubes to hold the junction tubing but this wasnt working for that particular plasticIf you've got kids and you buy one of those "Bunch O Balloon" thingies at Costco you'll have a lifetime supply of tubes for tying. Ditto for bulk WD-40 tubes. Amazon product ASIN B07DHZRRW7
Don't think the cost of tubes is going to make or break anyone but if you're the kind of guy that likes to save a buck here and there they seem to work fine.
I plan on gently placing this rainbow trout pattern into the corner of a bull trout's mouth! Hopefully......
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Tie them with a teardrop cross-section.Question for the tubeheads, prefaced by a bit of backstory -
I used to dig tying trout and steelhead patterns on tubes, until I started fishing faster sections than most "traditional" water... and noticed my normally dorso-ventrally-oriented flies had a tendency to turn 90° in these conditions.
I tried a few fixes, including different "belly" weights, denser eyes, no eyes, different head profiles, material shaving, material switching, material thinning, small cones to break potentially disruptive vortices...
Nothing helped. As soon as the water got above a certain velocity (right about brisk walking speed)...flop goes the fly onto its side, and instead of catching every fish in the run, I'm suddenly struggling to get a single eat.
"In the round" patterns don't seem to be affected by this - while this might seem like a "duh" statement, I say this to mean it isn't the trailing hook setup, or the knot, or the junction tubing...it's something else inherent in the fundamental makeup of a tubed pattern.
So after that long preface, the question - has anyone else noticed their tubed patterns rolling laterally in faster water conditions (be that from stripping fast or fast flow)? If yes, how did you fix the issue?
Not a tube-bashing moment, just an appeal to the hive-mind for potential solutions.
Tried. Didn't work.Tie them with a teardrop cross-section.
No worries, didn’t think it was disrespectful.Tried. Didn't work.
Edit: I realized after I hit "post reply" that this may have sounded flippant or terse, but...I did. The patterns in question were baitfish patterns and with the attention to dorso-ventral likeness of baitfish, were indeed ovoid in cross section and deeper thru the belly. Didn't keep them from flopping on their side in fast water.
Big ugly ones. Not petite pretty little ones! Size matters!!!!!! But if you ever feel like showing me some pretty ones, I am down for that! Will pay with tubes.........One of those “colored up” Oregon bulls or the prissy, pretty WA bulls ?
I see now. I thought you were clowning on OR. Bulls. Great pics! We should connect at some point.Oh god, you got the wrong guy. I love the big ugly dinosaur Oregon bulls
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ha! no way, I love the dark ones, and where you catch themI see now. I thought you were clowning on OR. Bulls. Great pics! We should connect at some point.