In designing these new tubes, Jurij Shumakov opened the way to a new generation of tube flies. They present many advantages, easy to tie, extremely effective and can survive many takes. The tubes can be combined with any type or size of hook, single, double or treble, using silicone tubing. Once you have got a fish on the hook you can easily remove the fly body, still being intact as it stays out of fish jaws and
teeth.
Some metal bodies have three or four slots that can be varnished in different colours which makes the tube look more attractive and exciting than a naked one. Although Shumakov Tubes are very effective and certainly make anglers happy, they are also gentler to salmon than traditional flies. Due to their construction, gills damage caused by a deep take of fly is minimized and thus many salmon lives are saved. Fish
will live happily longer, grow up to king size salmons and give you fishermen a chance to beat your previous records!
Are you curious to try tying on Shumakov tubes?
First take a look at the tying session here illustrated with detailed photographs:
http://www.rackelhanen.se/eng/10265.htm
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The "Long Range" brass tube was
conceived to reach the deepest lies. To make the rear part lighter, the body has
been cut in four places. At the same time, if these grooves are dyed with a
different colour (I tried red and black), the body doesn't look as naked as on
other brands. The friend who was the first to see this creation exclaimed in
amazement: "It certainly is a fly, but it looks like Mepps!" Well, who said that
spinners don't catch salmon? We just adopted some good ideas for our
toys...
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Long
range Alu 4.00 mm ;
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Long
range Brass 4.00 mm
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Long
range Alu 5.00 mm
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Long
range Brass 5.00 mm
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How to paint the tubes ? : http://www.rackelhanen.se/eng/10265.htm
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The "Skittle" brass
tube is the one with the best balance among all heavy tubes. It has enough
weight at the front end to push the fly down and hold it firmly in the current.
The rear part is thin, and not that different from the so-called "US tubes" "The
Fly Co". Front cone helps to hold fur up and mount wing at the best angle. Hair
of wing stays far from the hook, so it helps prevent tangling. One variant has
grooves on the rear part of the thickening, which can be dyed.
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Skittle
brass 5.00 mm
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Skittle
slotted brass 5.00 mm
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The "Summer arrow"
brass tubes are in fact a "conehead mutant". Long ago, I used to tie summer
flies using small coneheads behind and under the wing, but the hollow inner
surface of the conehead makes that rather inconvenient. The idea behind the
Arrow is to tie light summer tubes without using coneheads. The 4 mm Arrow is
light as LOOP's summer bottlenecked brass tubes, and doesn't .
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Summer
Arrow brass 4.00 mm
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Summer
Arrow brass 5.00 mm
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The "JS bottle neck"
tube has a shorter body and is lighter than Long Range Tube, with three slots on
it's body. Its made in two versions: brass and aluminium. This model is suitable
for low water fishing and for tiers who prefer to tie directly on metal neck
insted of plastic insert.
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Bottle
necked Alu 4.00 mm
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Bottle
necked brass 4.00 mm
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Linning
plastic ( 100 meters reel )
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