Riffling Hitch Sunray Shadow iridescent Green #4-6

Tiny baitfish

The Riffling Hitch Sunray Shadow iridescent Green is one of two tiny Sunray Shadow flies that we have turned into hitch flies – They also double as micro sub-flies and they will work perfectly in fast water –

The slim black wing made from specially selected hair from Islandic horse (Arctic runner) and the colourful body will give the fish an immediate impression of a tiny baitfish darting away.

See-through… ideas and practice with bigger surface flies

If you have followed the work we do here on Fishmadman you might have read about the qualities of see-through tubing and how we incorporate these elements into many of our flies that we and other anglers over the years have had success with.

Back in 2018, I started out experimenting with hitch flies with very little shimmering body material as opposed to hitch flies covered in shimmering body material – I did so by glueing stripes of shimmering material to the tubing. A process we are still perfecting here at Fishmadman. The body on the two bigger Riffling Hitch Sunray Shadow iridescent we do are made with this technique – and I have thoroughly tested them over the last seasons..and they are just great flies… I fish them primarily as sub surface flies, close to the surface – but I also use them as hitch flies 

Jesper Fohrmann

Medium/big

This small shiny version of the Sunray Shadow has a total length of 70 millimetres (2.75 inches) – the Tube length is a mere 20 millimetres (0.78 inches) to a #6 – 4 hook-fly

Subsurface Fly or Hitch Fly

Delicate micro flies perfected to trail in the surface

All Fishmadman hitch tube flies is based on the same clever system that will enable you to fish with different hooks.

The tippet is entered through a hole in the belly or side of the fly – This will make the fly pull to the surface and wake. Due to the design of the tube system, the fly will hitch with ease even in slack water – We use fine hair from Icelandic horse (artic runer) material for these subtle micro wake flies.