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.
