Black/Blue (Seatrout Needle Tube Fly) |
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| Tube: | Needle Tube (The tube used is a needle tube, 35 mm long with an outside diameter of 1.5 mm) |
| Thread: | Uni-thread 8/0, red |
| Wing: | Black and blue hair (The fly shown has dyed squirrel tail) |
| Flash: | Pearl Krystal hair, two strands |
| 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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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. |
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