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The Cascade Needle Tube
Fly tying step-by-step
by John Gray
www.graysofkilsyth.com |
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| The Needle Tube, newly developed and manufactured in
Scotland by Grays of Kilsyth, is the thinnest plastic lined
metal tube available for fly tying, allowing the salmon fly tyer
to create extremely slim bodied flies such as this needle tube
cascade, a simplified version of Ally Gowans's famous salmon
fly. The thin stainless steel tube, with a diameter of only 1.5 mm, has
been left undressed to give a slim shiny silver body. The Needle
Tube is much slimmer, lighter and more easily cast than the
traditional copper and brass tubes but will fish deeper than a
plastic or aluminium bodied tube fly.
Grays Needle Tubes are now available online in a range of
diameters and lengths.
How to tie the Cascade Needle Tube
Materials
| A needle tube of desired
diameter and length |
| Tying thread |
| Black, orange and yellow hair |
| A few strands of Crystal
Flash |
| Orange and yellow hackles |
| Short length of clear
silicone or PVC tubing |
| Hook of choice |
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Needle tubes |
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| 1. Insert needle tube in
Gray's Needle Tube Vice or pin vice. |
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| 2. Lay a short bed of tying thread at
the head. |
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| 3. Tie in a mixed bunch of orange and
yellow hair. |
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| 4. Add a few strands of orange
crystal flash. |
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| 5. Tie in a little black hair,
slightly shorter than the orange and yellow hair. |
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| 6. Tie in an orange hackle. |
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| 7. Wind three turns of hackle and
secure with a few turns of thread. |
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| 8. Tie in a yellow hackle. |
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| 9. Wind three turns of hackle,
secure, form head and varnish. |
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| 10. Add a short length of clear
silicone or PVC tubing at the rear and a hook of choice. |
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| For more information, or to buy
needle tubes, see
Grays
Needle Tubes |
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