**NEW** Stillwater Tube Fly Selection

NEW Stillwater Tube Fly Selection - from Barbless Flies

FREE Pack of Size 12 Hooks supplied with each selection (while stocks last)

I’d never seen a tube fly used for stillwater trout until we started tying these, which tells you how new this is for us. Tubes are a salmon thing, but the advantages work just as well on a reservoir.

• The fish can’t use the fly as a lever. Once hooked, the tube slides up the leader and out of the way, leaving the fish with only the hook.
• You pick the hook. Size, wire weight, barbed or barbless (you know where I stand).
• A blunt hook doesn’t ruin the fly. Change the hook and carry on fishing.
• The hook trails at the back, which helps with those short, nippy takes.

These work best fished deep, on a sinking or intermediate line, so don’t skate them across the top on a floater.

This selection contains a total of 12 Stillwater Tube Lures.

Rigging: Thread your leader through the tube, tie on your hook, and slide the tube down to the eye. Leave the leader clear in front of the tube. Don’t crimp or fix anything to it, or the tube can’t slide up.

Our NEW Selection contains 2 of each of the following patterns:

Black Shadow (1/4" Aluminium tube) - Long, sparse black hackle over a dark, glittery body, finished with a lime-green head. It’s slim and ragged in the water, so it looks like a small fish that’s had a rough day. The aluminium tube gets it down, and the green head gives the trout something to aim at. If you only try one on the dark side of the box, make it this one.

Olive Damsel (1/4" Aluminium tube) - Soft olive hackle sweeping back over a green sparkle body, with a hot orange head and a few strands of green flash. It looks like a damsel nymph, and the aluminium tube means it sinks and swims like one rather than hanging in the surface film. This is the one that caught rainbows for our tester on an intermediate line.

Blue-Flash Damsel (1cm Plastic tube) - Olive marabou and hackle with blue holographic flash wrapped along the body and trailing from the tail. It’s a damsel with a bit of extra sparkle for coloured water or low light. The lighter plastic tube sinks more slowly, so it suits fishing higher in the water or a slow retrieve.

Will Scarlet (1cm Plastic tube) - Bright red marabou, red hackle and a strip of holographic flash. Subtle it is not. When the fish are being awkward, loud sometimes works, and this fishes well on an intermediate line with a steady retrieve.

Black Bugger (1cm Plastic tube) - Black marabou tail, black hackled body, silver ribbing and a strip of holo flash down the side. It’s the Black Bugger you already know, with a bit more sparkle than usual. The plastic tube keeps it light, so it works well on a slow, patient retrieve.

Cat’s Whisker (1cm Plastic tube) - White marabou with strands of green flash and green ribbing. It’s the classic stillwater favourite, and a good one when trout are chasing a fast, pulled retrieve. White shows up in cloudy water, and the green flash adds a flicker.