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The Butcher
T.E. Pryce-Tannatt - How to Dress Salmon Flies, 1914 Dressed by Monte Smith
Name | The Butcher |
Category | Atlantic Salmon Fly |
Tag | Silver thread and lemon silk |
Tail | A topping and blue Chatterer |
Butt | Black ostrich herl |
Body | Fiery brown, pale blue, claret and dark blue seal’s fur in equal sections |
Ribs | Flat silver tinsel and silver twist |
Hackle |
Dark claret or black |
Throat |
Lemon followed by speckled gallina |
Underwing |
A pair of tippets back to back covered by a pair of golden pheasant breast feathers, and these covered by a pair of broad strips of teal |
Main Wing |
Yellow, scarlet, blue and orange swan, bustard and golden pheasant tail with mallard above and a topping over all |
Cheeks | Blue Chatterer |
Horns | Blue and gold macaw |
The Butcher was tied by Oregon Contributing Fly Tyer, Monte Smith. You can see more of Monte's flies at The Flies of Monte Smith.
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