VanH

How’s it hold up to musky? That E-Z body tubing I’m using seems fairly tough but I didn’t put a coating on them. Ruben didn’t coat his zonkers so I’m trying that first and see what happens. Have picture of your fly?

Thanks! Also like Phil Rowley’s foam minnow too, which I’ve had great success with floating and sinking line. With this one I will probably test it out with a floating line first and see how the action is but definitely will try a sinking too. The added bb’s should make a little extra noise and erratic movement.

While tying up some of Ruben Martin’s Bass Zonker Tube flies I wondered what would happen if I added foam on top and used a larger size E-Z body and this happened. 🤔 The top fly on the bottom left was the first one I tied with the red foam and the top picture is made with white foam and is longer.

Like most fly tiers I’ve been making a few Cicada flies to be ready for the big hatch this year. A larger, simple foam black beetle usually works just fine but it’s fun to be creative and see what else will work. After seeing a video of a cicada on the water sputtering around I came up with the Buzzed Cicada Tube Fly armed with a small plastic tube propeller from Pro Sportfisher. The eyes are plastic beads attached to mono and I burnt the wings from poly wing material.

They are slightly larger (OD 3.5mm) than the large HMH tubes (OD 3mm) with a thicker wall that I got from my friend in Colorado. I think he said they were acupuncture tubes. To get the jig tube shape I carefully heat it up with a lighter and bend to the angle I want. For my Mr Wiggly tube flies I use a small HMH tube.

After having success fishing with tube flies last fall I’m continuing to experiment with other possibilities using them. The popular Mr. Wiggly seemed like a perfect fly to tie on a tube. I like being able to use a variety of wide gap/ short shank hooks and the soft presentation of a much lighter fly.

Thanks! I like the options of swapping out different hooks depending on the situation and species.

Experimenting with my new jig tubes. Definitely not your traditional tube fly.

Experimenting with some tubing and hook orientation. Saw a vertical jig lure with hooks situated like this except it also had a treble hook on the bottom. This is a strange looking flyrod lure/flure for sure. I’m thinking about also making one that doesn’t have the front hook.

Perfect fly for the summer season. Made with a Ahrex Texas style hook, 3mm foam, beer bottle cap foam cutter, deer tail, flash and the head coated in flex seal.

I plan on getting some video of the fly rod version soon. This one is tied on a 3/8oz - 4/0 hook for conventional gear.

This is what happens when a fly fisherman starts adding some spin and bait casting into the mix. I’ve been making a flyrod version of a chatterbait and decided to make some bigger ones for my spin-rods.

Nice fly! That should catch several species.

I’ve been looking at them too. I have a sit in kayak and wanting to switch to a sit on top to make my fused lower back happy.