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Post by Bobby on Feb 7, 2018 10:58:08 GMT -6
Been looking more and more into tying on tubes. Anyone have experience with them? Best place for supplies?
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Post by scaleson on Feb 7, 2018 13:40:56 GMT -6
if you want to practice tying tubes: buy cheap hollow q-tips;find a nail that fits through the hollow q-tip;flatten the tip of the nail so that it fits into your vise.....for a lasting /usable tube :coat the q-tip with anything from hard as nails to epoxy
Or you can go on-line and buy the tube tying kits ...........I've done both ..........depends on you purpose....noncoated q-tips work ,on the Red,briefly
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Post by stephenjay on Feb 26, 2018 7:21:19 GMT -6
Most of my fly fishing at Lockport uses tubes. You can go the hollow qtip route, but I get Scandinavian Style tubes from canadiantubeflies.com. Tricky part is the vise. As I mostly tie plastic tubes, I use a Pro Sportfisher tubefly needle on my vise.
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Post by lockport1850 on Feb 27, 2018 15:45:34 GMT -6
Canadian Tube Flies is very good for supplies. I use the Egret Needle ( link) which works great for large flies for Pike, for example. I just could not wrap my head around the shape of other needles to put in the vise. This one has a flat end that just slips right in your vise for the clamp-down.
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