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 ● Oct. 22, 2011

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