Blue Cascade (Salmon Needle Tube Fly) |
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| Tube: | Needle Tube (The tube used is a needle tube, 15 mm long with an outside diameter of 1.5 mm) |
| Thread: | Uni-thread 8/0, black |
| Tail: | Light and dark Blue (or purple) dyed squirrel (or fox) |
| Wing: | Black squirrel or fox |
| Flash: | Pearl Krystal Hair |
| Collar: | Purple cock over light blue cock |
| Join: | Short length of PVC tubing or similar |
| Hook: | Treble hooks: Partridge Salar tube fly treble for salmon; Partridge Needle Eye Treble (X3BL) for sea trout. Double hooks: Fulling Mill tube fly double or Ken Sawada XD1 tube fly double. Single Hooks: Fox Carp Hook Series 2 or 3 or Drennan Starpoint. |
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Note: The tube fly is displayed threaded on a needle for presentation only. Use with hook of your choice. Background: The needle tube flies shown have been dressed on Grays Needle Tubes, a new range of extremely slim, plastic lined, stainless steel tubes developed and manufactured in Scotland by Grays of Kilsyth. Hooks: Specifically for the Cascade salmon needle tubes shown, I would use either Partridge Salar tube fly treble in size 13 (as on sea trout tubes and needle flies); Fulling Mill ( similar to Loop) tube fly double in size 10 or Sawada XD1 tube fly double in size 10; or Fox Series 2 Carp single. |
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