William - If you are planning to use metal tubes (aluminum; brass; copper), you need to be sure that they have plastic liners inside them. Otherwise, the metal will abrade your leader.
Most tubes are 1/8" O.D. I tie my tube flies on plastic tubes and add weight using lead wire just as I would with standard flies tied on hooks. Of course there is nothing wrong with using metal tubes. It is just easier for me to use plastic tubes for all my flies and add the weight as needed. The Tiemco 105 in a size 4 is a great hook for use with tube flies. There are a few websites that are dedicated to tube flies. Just do a web search using "Tube Flies" and you will find them easily. Hope this helps. I would be interested to know how you progress in this area. - Gary At 02:14 AM 12/10/2001, you wrote: >Has anyone here had any luck with Atlantic salmon >style tube flies for steelhead? They are intriguing. >I was wondering if anyone knew of a good size of tube >to use? I plan on tying copper ones, to help weight >the fly. Do I need to prep the tube at all? Also >what hooks work well with tube flies? Any info would >be greatly appreciated. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Send your FREE holiday greetings online! >http://greetings.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ><)))}"< <"{(((>< "Catch & Release...It's the future of fishing!" To subscribe to, Texas Warmwater Fly Fishing e-mail discussion list... Send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to, Warmwater Angler e-mail discussion list... Send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------
