FLY
Classic Salmon Fly
The Butcher
Tied by Rich LaMonte
The Butcher recipe
| Hook | Byron Bjerke Harrison Bartleet 4/0 |
|---|---|
| Thread | Semperfli |
| Tip | Small oval silver tinsel (veevus) |
| Tag | Yellow silk floss (lagartun) |
| Tail | Golden pheasant crest veiled by gp tippet and guinnea |
| Butt | Black Ostrich herl |
| Body | Seals fur in this order, light claret, light blue, dark claret, dark blue |
| Hackle | Black rooster saddle |
| Rib | Flat silver tinsel and silver twist. |
| Throat | Yellow saddle hackle followed by speckled guinea |
| Underwing | Gp tippet on one side, gp spear on the other |
| Wing | Red, yellow, light blue dyed turkey tail,kori bustard and golden pheasant tail |
| Roof | Bronze mallard |
| Sides | Speckled guinea |
| Horns | Blue and gold macaw tail |
| Head | Cobblers wax and celire black |
What the The Butcher imitates
- Salmon / steelhead classic wet (floss, tinsel, hackle)
Tied for: Bass (general), Salmon (general)
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Kelson, The Salmon Fly (1895), Plate 5, No. 2. The photo above is a later tie, not the original.
Inside the vault every material on this fly opens to its own card, and you can save the fly to your own boxes.
