Arctic Fox Flies UV White / Smelt Tube Fly Trolling Purple Flash

Natural white fox fur with UV highlights and a couple of strands of holographic purple flash. This is a great smelt fly for the Japanese “Pond Smelt” in some California lakes. By not using a disc or setting the disc 6”+ above the fly this tube fly will swim with a narrow profile like a smelt. With the disc close to the fly the fur will be lifted out presenting a “fuller” profile. White is also a good base for coloring the fly with permanent felt tip pens.

Tube Flies are not just a stand alone lure. I think of them as a part of a flexible system. You can “Stack” two or more flies to increase the length or to create a two-toned fly (chartreuse + orange + fire tiger). You can change the hook from the #2 Octopus style to a treble, tandem singles, larger or smaller. The hook can be moved farther to the rear of the fly by placing beads between the hook and the tube. One customer stacked 4 white tube flies with a #1/0 treble to imitate a mountain whitefish and landed a 20#+ mackinaw at Flaming Gorge, Utah.

These flies can be rigged and trolled in a number of ways. These flies can be fished “naked”, just the fly and manipulated with your rod. The Jay Fair method and ripping are a couple of ways to fish just a fly on a sinking line. Dodgers are another popular way to animate the flies. Dodgers limit the speed range for trolling without rolling the fly.