Micro tubes can be highly effective flies for salmon in many conditions. They are easy to tie and adding some weight such as micro cone adds the possibilities how one can fish with them.
I saw micro tube first time when fishing in Iceland. It soon came apparent that these flies work really well in many conditions. I've later fished with them in many other places, with good success. I generally like to fish with small flies, not to spook the fish and overfish the pool. Lightly weighted micro flies work great in fast riffles where hook flies might start to skate on the surface. They also work well in slow water pools where you can strip the fly. Tiny strips - pause -tiny strips and you can get the resident fish aroused as well.
Micro Silver sheep (wing length around 1,5cm)
Tube: XS for inner tubing, S for hook placement
Tag: fluoro orange or red
Body: flat silver + oval silver rib
Wing: small bunches of black fox and yellow on top, top it of with few crystal hairs
Hackle: Light blue hen
Head: Micro cone, orange or red
Micro Cascade (wing length around 1,5cm)
Tube: XS for inner tubing, S for hook placement
Tag: oval silver
Body: black silk + oval silver rib
Underwing: small bunches of yellow and orange bucktai, top it of with few crystal hairs
Wing: black fox
Hackle: yellow and orange hen
Head: Micro cone, gold or silver
Micro Banana (wing length around 2,5cm)
Tube: XS tube
Body: size S tungsten cone, gold, burn the tube at the end to hold the cone in place
Body: black silk + oval silver rib
Wing: banana dirty yellow temple hair or fox, darker olive hair on top, add few mirror flash on sides
Hackle: dirty yellow hen
Micro Black&Yellow (wing length around 1,5cm)
Tube: XS for inner tubing, S for hook placement
Tag: oval silver
Body: bright yellow dubbing + oval silver rib
Underwing: small bunches of yellow and black fox, top it of with few crystal hairs
Hackle: black hen
Head: Micro cone, gold or silver
Fighting a fish in Midfjardara Iceland that fell for a micro tube.
