V-FLY Silver tippet/Holo Gold # 4

A shimmering baitfish

Here is our new 2022 version of the V-FLY Silver tippet/Holo Gold  – A slightly bigger Riffling Hitch fly (equivalent to a # 4 regular fly) made in line with our see-through theories on surface salmon flies

See-through ideas and practice with the bigger V-FLY 

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 V-FLYs we do are made with this technique – and I have thoroughly tested them over the last two 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

A great August fly

Here a August salmon caught on the V-FLY Silver tippet/Holo Gold

See-through tubing

Capturing the essence of small baitfish

Medium/big

Slightly bigger than the V-FLY group at 29 mm (1.14 inch) body- equivalent in length to a #4 hook… But it is a difficult fly to compare to a fly tied on hook

Sub fly or Hitch fly

As how it is with so many of our hitch flies you may use the V-FLY Silver tippet/Holo Gold fly as a sub-surface fly by putting the tippet through the front of the tubing as you would do with most tube flies – but you may also hitch the fly on the surface by putting the leader through the hole positioned at the front end (at the throat) of the 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 line 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 small squirrel as this has proven to be unrivaled material for these subtle micro wake flies.