Black Rabbit Strips and a Green Cone, deadly with nothing else. Throw this pattern on sink tip and you have “instant” fish. Summer Steelhead, Winter Steelhead, Sea Trout, Atlantic Salmon all eat this Tube Leech pattern. We continue our series of Pro Tube fly tying videos with Jay Nicholas’s latest Tube Leech. Mix up the colors for Salmon and Steelhead. Use white and tan, chartreuse and white for Bull Trout, scale it down for a trout streamer in black and tan.
Pro Tube Fly Systems Tube Leech
Tube: Micro Tube with Large Hook Guide
Thread: Lagartun 95D
Wing: Black Rabbit Strip
Flash: Krystal Flash Smolt Blue
Hackle: Black Marabou
Topping: Blue Ostrich
Collar: Blue Cross Cut Rabbit
Cone: Pro Tube Pro Cone Disc Large
Wow, instant fish? Does this leech have magical powers? Has Jay found the the steelheader’s El Dorado? Is this the silver bullet?
Good looking fly, I don’t think it’s the silver bullet. From what I’ve been led to believe, the silver bullet is either a glow bug or a pink worm and the magic comes from the bobber.