RE: [VFB] Wet Fly Enthusiasts,

[iain short]

Chris the bloody butcher uses blue mallard wing or magpie tail for its wing, but if you want to tie with a teal wing - Try a rolled wing stead of slips.  Take a section of mallard or teal breast or flank feather four times as wide as the finished wing. Pull the tips about level and fold in half then fold again this will leave you a double thickness wing

There are several variations on the butcher,  I will look up the full set and post them

silver - silver body black hackle.  blue mallard wing or magpie tail for its wing

gold - gold body black hackle.  blue mallard wing or magpie tail for its wing

bloody - silver body scarlet hackle.  blue mallard wing or magpie tail for its wing

canary - silver body yellow hackle.  blue mallard wing or magpie tail for its wing

Irish - silver body with yellow palmered over body and a black throat hackle. blue mallard wing or magpie tail for its wing

Blue - silver body blue hackle.  blue mallard wing or magpie tail for its wing

Teal winged - as silver with a teal wing

Iain, Deb, Bill, Anyone who ties these things, So - I'm looking through a book of wet fly patterns trying to find something to tie and my eye falls on the Bloody Butcher.  Cool fly.  I own a couple (great gifts from a friend...they supposedly work in England...they definitely work on the Lower Owens in Cali). The question is:  Does anyone have any tips for tying in the teal flank wing?  I am not getting it to look quite right - I don't know if it's a bulk issue or a tension issue or what - but the wing looks like a hungover grasshopper hanging onto the grill of a Dodge Charger.  And that's not good. Tips? Chris

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