On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:35:45 -0700, "G.E.M. Sandy"
wrote:



Sounds like the 20 guage stuff would be perfect to use as liners for
3/32" copper tubes. Does this tubing melt and curl back when exposed
to flame? Normally liners have to be melted back to grip the metal
tube.

Peter


No, I wish it did (melt and flare back).

I've only used it (Teflon tubing) for trout-sized tube flies.
....although some of my trout flies do tend to look
like someone else's bass bugs. Anyway, even for a
3-4" long fly you still only need a #2 or #4 short-shank hook
at the rear end of the tube. And the eye of a #4
hook won't go into the center of the tube. So I'm not sure
why the tubing needs to flare at all.



I'm tying steelhead flies on tubes so they can get large. When using
metal tubes, there has to be a liner to prevent chaffing. The flaring
both holds the liner in place plus it acts to prevent contact between
the line and the metal tube. We then use a junction tube to mate the
tube with the hook. In the top fy in the picture, there's a junction
tube but it's missing in the bottom one.

Peter

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