This contains everything needed to start tying tiny tubes: needle tube holder; assorted metal tubes (all tiny); plastic tubing; cones. There's enough here to tie three-dozen metal-bodied tubes, a few dozen coloured plastic-bodied tubes. Add a vice, thread, a little fur and a feather and you’re off!

This uses the simplest method of holding a tube, wedge the tube onto a tapered needle. This is more than a darning needle, fitted with a metal flat which fixes securely in a standard tying vice. Inevitably, tubes can move on a needle but it is so simple and with a little practice not very hard to use.

These tubes are miniature, 10mm and 13mm, and all come with clear extension tubing which fits over the end of the tube and liner tubing to fit inside the tube (the extension tube holds the hook in place and with the metal tube sets the totally length of the fly). The liner protects the tippet from chaffing on the metal tube body.

Three body shapes, Crayfish, Micro Ball and Teardrop, all do the same job but the weight and balance of the flies differ fractionally. Personally, I would not cover the body of these. I'd simply tie in a wing and a hackle; job done.

Similarly with flies tied on plastic tube, use the colour of the plastic tube as the body of the fly. Eumer supplies two tubing sizes, inner and outer, and the inner can be slipped through a cone to make a simple head-weighted fly.

Details of tying techniques and suggestions on how to assemble these tubes before tying flies are available on Eumer’s website www.eumer.com