Tuna 2026

[Skagittarius]

The fly is a typical tuna fly. The extension and spinner blade are atypical.
I appreciate Lou’s experiment and report. Would flash work just as well? Who’s to say until you try something. Tuna have large eyes and sensitive lateral lines. And maybe it was gonna pay to have a fly with a flappy metal giblet in the back.

Thanks. I've been out of the tuna game for 6 years but that wasn't a "typical" fly when I was flyfishing for Tuna. It looks great, but my only concern is that artificial material tends to bind up to other materials when there's underlying turbulence but I'm sure you have that figured out.

 

[Kfish]

The fly is a typical tuna fly. The extension and spinner blade are atypical.
I appreciate Lou’s experiment and report. Would flash work just as well? Who’s to say until you try something. Tuna have large eyes and sensitive lateral lines. And maybe it was gonna pay to have a fly with a flappy metal giblet in the back.

Next year I might try it again, but tie it like a kreelex. 2 short stations of material, one on the hook and one on the mono to minimize tangling. Smaller stouter hook could be better too, hard to say.

 

[Matt B]

Thanks. I've been out of the tuna game for 6 years but that wasn't a "typical" fly when I was flyfishing for Tuna. It looks great, but my only concern is that artificial material tends to bind up to other materials when there's underlying turbulence but I'm sure you have that figured out.

Oh gotcha, interesting, thanks. The fiber and feather portion of the fly seems like a pretty straightforward mostly synthetic baitfish to me which is a template that I think has been around for a bit (surely more than 6 years) so I’m curious what you consider to be a typical PNW albacore fly.