Does anyone tie or use tube flies?

"Padishar Creel" wrote:
Chas, I was advised to glue the cone to the tube before tying. I
think I
read that either in my tube fly book or on the web...anyhow it does
work
well...I had to drill out the tube some because the clue tended to
gather a
bit at the opening of the tube.

Chris,

I was using thise worm weights, and I had them entirely separate from
the fly so I could use a fly unweighted or heavily weighted.

A separate point you've probably already thought of is that you cut the
price of the flies in half by not including a hook. My experience up
north has me actually loosing only 2 or 3 flies a week, most of the
flies are just so battered I have to give up on them. Having the hook
separate lets me use more expensive hooks and get by on fewer of them.

Chas
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"Chas Wade" wrote in message
s.com...

I was using thise worm weights, and I had them entirely separate from
the fly so I could use a fly unweighted or heavily weighted.

A separate point you've probably already thought of is that you cut the
price of the flies in half by not including a hook. My experience up
north has me actually loosing only 2 or 3 flies a week, most of the
flies are just so battered I have to give up on them. Having the hook
separate lets me use more expensive hooks and get by on fewer of them.


Check this out for weighting tube flies using cone heads:
http://globalflyfisher.com/staff/urkedal/conehead/

"Hooked" wrote:

Check this out for weighting tube flies using cone heads:
http://globalflyfisher.com/staff/urkedal/conehead/

A nice idea well presented.
Thanks,

Chas
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