tube fly

British

noun

angling an artificial fly with the body tied on a hollow tube that can slide up the leader when a fish takes

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But then on my last day, in another steady rain, I had a solid hookup on a Willie Gunn, a tube fly tied with yellow, orange and black bucktail.

From New York Times

The port outrigger had been retracted, so angler Jeff Asplundh, standing in the port corner of the cockpit with fly rod and pink-and-white Cam Sigler tube fly in hand, would have an open lane for his backcast.

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