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Bloody Butcher

Wet Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions

Classic Recipe

• Hook Standard wet, 10-14
• Thread Black 8/0

Materials

• Tail Red duck slip (small)
• Body Flat silver (smooth)
• Wing Blue-black mallard (slips)
• Hackle Scarlet hen (beard)

How to tie it

1. Start black thread and lay a base to the bend.
2. Tie in a small slip of red duck quill as a tail, pointing back.
3. Catch in flat silver tinsel and wrap a smooth bright body forward to behind the eye, then tie off.
4. Tie in scarlet hen fibers as a beard under the throat. The red hackle is what makes it "bloody" instead of a plain Butcher.
5. Tie in matched blue-black mallard quill slips as a wing over the body, tips to the bend.
6. Build a small head, whip finish, and cement.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Classic Recipe (2).

Tying videos

• Bloody Butcher — Fly Tying the Bloody Butcher (YouTube)
• Bloody Butcher — Ivar's Fly Workshop (YouTube)

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