Baja Tubes

If you fish from the rocks as frequently as I do, you've lost your own small fortune in flies , leaders and tippets, not to speak of the good ones that got away...
I need a costant supply of flies that are both effective and cheapand fast to tie.
Thinking of my salmon and steelhead angling days I decided to start messing around with Q-tips and tube flies.
All the materials come from thrift stores and such and to fasten the materials to the tube between steps, I use a glue gun and stick glue; this takes care of not having a vise holding my tube and the materials during tying.
I've been playing around for a while with these tube patterns and they all have caught fish ( jacks ,roosters and 'cudas).
They don't look like they're out of an Umpqua or Orvis catalogue...these are "journeyman" flies and I like them for their ruggedness and no nonsense "attitude".
Slide the tippet through, push a sleeve on and tie a hook.

Last cast rooster

After loosing a decent size jack in the surf, thanks to the "legal poachers" with castnets, I went to the marina to check on my friends..
I was leaving already and something in my head made me turn around a give it a shot.
At the third cast of the Half'n'Half I felt like I got stuck in the rocks...in a few seconds I realized it wasn't so   ; )
Very ihteresting the way it hit the fly and the way it fought..different than in the surf1

Picture is poor, but once weighted it was pushing 30 lbs.
Even though I am firm believer of catch and release, I am not an extremist and I did sacrifice this one for the table.

Roosterfish is not bad eating as they want you to believe.