Black & Yellow Needle Tube Fly

Needle Tubes and Tube Flies

Step by Step dressing of this ultra slim sea trout needle tube fly

by John Gray

 

A slim and simply dressed tube fly for sea trout night fishing. It may also be used for salmon and steelhead.

Black and Yellow Tube Fly

Materials

Tube:40 mm long needle tube, outside diameter 1.5mm

Hackle: White Arctic Fox hair

Underwing: Yellow Arctic Fox hair with a few strands of Krystal Flash on top

Wing: Black Arctic Fox hair

 

Step 1: Secure needle tube in tube fly vice and lay a short bed of tying thread

Tying the Black and Yellow Needle Tube Fly

 

Step 2: Tie in a bunch of white Arctic Fox hair

Black and Yellow Needle Tube Fly

 

Step 3: Turn the vice through 180 degrees and tie in a bunch of yellow Arctic Fox hair and a few strands of Krystal Flash on top

Tying the sea trout Needle Tube Fly

 

Step 4: Tie in a bunch of Black Arctic Fox hair

Tying the Black and Yellow Needle Tube Fly

 

Step 5: trim ends, form a neat head and finish with three coats of Cellire No. 1 varnish

Black and Yellow Needle Tube Fly

 

Step 6: The finished fly - add a link of clear silicone tubing (bore 1.0mm) and a hook of choice

Black and Yellow Sea Trout Needle Tube Fly

 

 

Shortly after tying the above flies, I was out on the Spey on the night of 20th May, trying for a sea trout  .... and caught this eight pound salmon instead, at 11.30 pm in the dark!

Salmon needle tube fly

 

For more information on Salmon, Trout and Sea Trout Flies, see Trout and Salmon Flies

Book - Sea Trout Nights

 

 Salmon Spinhead

 

HMH Tube Fly Tool

 

Resources

Grays of Kilsyth

Salmon Flies

Trout Flies

Sea Trout Flies

Tube Flies

The Tube Fly Shop

Salmon Fishing Scotland

Trout Fishing Scotland

Sea Trout Fishing

Sea Trout Fishing Book

 

 
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