TUBE FLY GALLERY | Photographic Gallery of Needle Tube Flies

Photographic Gallery of Salmon, Sea Trout and Steelhead Needle Tube Flies

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Scottish Shrimp Salmon Needle Tube Flies — **A Few Scottish Shrimp Needle Tubes**

Tube flies are now widely popular among fly tyers and fly fishermen, especially for salmon, sea trout and steelhead flies. Tubes of many types, sizes and materials are now available on which to dress a great variety of salmon flies. Ultra-slim stainless steel Needle Tubes were introduced in 2008 by Grays of Kilsyth in Scotland. Originally devised as a slim lure for late night sea trout fishing, they have since proven extremely effective for Atlantic salmon and steelhead too. A great benefit of the Needle Tubes is that they really require no body dressing, making their tying much simpler, as in most of the examples here. Shown below is a selection of photographs of Needle Tube Flies. They are dressed in a variety of styles which may be adapted for Atlantic salmon, Pacific salmon, steelhead or sea trout.

Scottish Shrimp Needle Tube Flies

Illustrated below is a selection of Scottish Shrimp Needle Tube flies, dressed on 15mm long Needle Tubes, Diameter 1.5mm.

Yelly Belly Scottish Shrimp — Yelly Belly Shrimp Tube Fly

Yelly Belly Salmon Shrimp — Yelly Belly variant

Golden Olive Scottish Shrimp Tube — BOYO Shrimp Tube Fly

Olive Brown Shrimp Tube Fly — Light BOYO Shrimp Tube Fly

Pink Badger Needle Tube Fly — Pink Badger Tube Fly

Cascade Needle Tube Fly — Cascade Shrimp Tube Fly

Purple and Red Shrimp — Purple & Red Shrimp Tube Fly

Ally's Shrimp Tube Fly — Ally’s Shrimp Tube Fly

Black Shrimp Tube Fly — Black Shrimp Needle Tube Fly

Blue Tunder Scottish Shrimp Tube Fly — Blue Thunder Scottish Shrimp Tube Fly

Magus Scottish Shrimp Tube Fly — Magus Scottish Shrimp Tube

Durris Shrimp Needle Tube Fly — Durris Shrimp Tube Fly

Intruder Needle Tube Flies

The Intruder style of fly might be successfully adapted to tying on tubes. Below are some examples dressed on needle tubes of various lengths, from 25mm to 40mm.

Black Hackle Intruder Needle Tube Fly — Black Hackle Intruder Tube Fly

Blue and Chartreuse Intuder Needle Tube Fly — Blue and Chartreuse Needle Tube Intruder

Pink & Blue Needle Tube Intruder Fly — Pink & Blue Needle Tube Intruder

Black and Orange Intruder Tube Fly — Black & Orange Intruder Tube Fly

Green & Orange Intruder Tube fly — Green and Orange Intruder Tube

Black & Blue Intruder Tube Fly — Black & Blue Intruder Tube

Magus Intruder Shrimp Tube Fly — Magus Intruder Tube Fly

Red Needle Intruder Shrimp Tube Fly — Black & Red Intruder Tube

Orange Needle Intruder Tube Fly — Orange Intruder Tube

Purple & Blue Intruder Tube Fly — Purple/Blue Needle Tube Intruder Fly

Needle Tube Intruder No. 13 — Purple/Red Needle Tube Intruder Fly

Needle Intruder Tube Fly - Purplw & Yellow — Purple & Yellow Intruder Tube

Mini Intruders

The Intruder Flies shown below have been dressed on stainless steel Needle Tubes, length 25mm, diameter 1.5mm. The overall length of these tube flies is about one and a half inches (40mm), which, although not particularly small for Atlantic salmon flies, is small in terms of North American Intruder flies in common use for Pacific salmon and steelhead. They might then be thought of as “Mini Intruders”.

Black and Orange Mini Intruder Tube Fly — Black & Orange Mini Intruder

Gory Mini Intruder Tube Fly — Gory Mini Intruder

Yobo Mini Intruder Tube Fly — Yobo Mini Intruder

Pink Mini Intruder tube Fly — Pink & Black Mini Intruder

Minitube Flies

The Scottish Shrimps illustrated above are dressed on 15mm long needle tubes. The Intruder tube flies are dressed on needle tubes ranging from 25mm to 40mm in length. Tube flies may, of course, be dressed on longer or shorter tubes. Shown below are more needle tube flies dressed on short 10mm long tubes, to create a series of minitube flies.

Black and Silver Minitube Fly — Black & Silver Minitube

Black and Red Minitube — Black & Red Minitube Fly

Black and Oreange Minitube — Black & Orange Minitube Fly

Black and Blue Minitube — Black & Blue MInitube Fly

Black and Yellow Minitube — Black & Yellow Minitube Fly

Salmon Mini Tube Fly — Scottish Shrimp Minitube Fly

Blackback Needle Tube Flies

As the name implies, the flies shown below are very simply dressed, with little more than a black hair wing of bucktail, squirrel, Arctic fox or goat hair, a sparse coloured hair underwing and a few hackle fibres applied to a stainless steel needle tube, diameter 1.5mm.

Blue Blackback Needle Tube Fly — Blue Blackback Tube Fly

Green Blackback Tube Fly — Chartreuse Blackback

Sea Trout Night Needle Tubes

A few very simply dressed tube flies for night time sea trout fishing, dressed on 30mm long Nedle Tubes, 1.5mm diameter.