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The Cone Head Tube Fly
A brand new way of tying tube flies
By Oivind Urkedal
Tying sequence for my favorite
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Tube: 2 cm, 1½"
Rear 1/3: Copper mylar tubing
Front 2/3: Black floss and silver rib
Throat: Green fox (sparse)
Wing: Black fox and a couple of strands of flash.
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Insert the tube with the head to the left (I use a salmon hook without eye),
wind the thread to the point where you will tie in the copper tubing and go back
towards the head.
Insert the copper tubing and secure it well with tight windings.
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With your fingers carefully roll the copper tubing towards the head. It's
easy to get into trouble here because the mylar tube tends to get unravelled (as
you can see in the picture above) when you turn roll it on the tube.
You can
cut some of the excessive copper strands but I tie them all down. This might
give you a bulky body but will secure the copper very well.
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Now that you have secured the tubing you can set the tube back in the vise
the "right way".
Tie in oval silver tinsel for ribbing and black or charcoal
floss silk for body.
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Tie in green fox for throat (keep it sparse) and black fox for wing.
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Tie in a strand of flash on each side of the wing. To get a smooth joint
between the large copper head and the body of the fly, it might be an idea to
wind the tying thread until you have a smoothened it out (remeber that the
varnish will build up some).
Whip finish.
Varnish.
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Submitted August 12th 2008
Just returned from Iceland where I confronted this deadly fly for the first time. It was absolutely deadly in certain situations, such as where the salmon were bunched up deep at the head of a waterfall pool, and one needed a small fly, with low impact, and a small size to fish deep within a very short section of the river. The British anglers at outr camp used this pattern a lot (I had not been aware of them the last time I was there in 1999, as opposed to tube flies.)
Best was a very simple all black fly although Red Frances patterns also were good.
Your instructions are fabulous, and show how someone can make the fly without investing in an expensive tube fly vise or adapters. Thanks very much.
In certain situations these flies have no equal.