I have fished with red tag many times after trout & grayling, so I don’t see why a scaled up tube-version shouldn’t work on salmon! Trying to keep it as simple as I can, I was tempted to add a red collar, but resisted and added two pieces of flash instead to match the silver wrapping in the body.
[…] this escalated over the winter and I got really into tying large arctic fox/temple dog tube flies for salmon, exploring sunray shadow, more sunray shadows, my sunray solstice, red-tag tube, […]