Highland 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: | Green and Yellow dyed squirrel (or fox) |
Wing: | Black squirrel or fox |
Flash: | Green Krystal Hair |
Collar: | Orange cock over yellow 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. |
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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