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I tied up my first sliding fly today and it turned out okay, I think. It took several attempts to complete one. I would not want to make these things for a living. I think it would be easier to have Split make them or take his fly tying class next semester. Here is my last picture on the subject. I promise......

Looks very good Don,

The advantage to making that fly is it doesn't get torn up by the fish as much. The fly will slide up the leader line and away from the fish mouth and pliers.

I don't find them much tougher to tie than a regular fly. How'd you hold the tube? I have a short hunk of wires like from a paper clip, pinch that wire in vise, give it a couple of slight bends so it presses on the inside of the tube as you slide it on.

BN-I held the plastic tube in place by wrapping a double thick piece of electrical tape around the tube leaving it long enough to form a tag end on the wrap. I clamped that tag end into my vise. It held well enough. My problem was trying wrap the flashabou on and chasing it around the tube and my wrappings and flashabou coming undone. I finally resorted to getting out a tube of fletchtite and gluing one end of the flashabou hanks together and then gluing the hanks to the tube. I then did my polyester thread wrapping and finished it off with some holographic red flash thread and then coated the fly head with a clear 2 part epoxy to keep it all together. I then added my "patented" fly fluffer to the left over body tube under the skirt and added a leader and red treble.
Don't think any part of this actually right, but it got one fly made that has the color bands equally spaced and almost no intermingling of the color bands.