STREAMCRAFT 



With 

 Body, green herl; Legs, scarlet hackle wound palmer; the 



pattern is called Scarlet Butcher. 



(Hackle on all these Butchers is very long and bushy. 

 The Butcher salmon fly is an altogether different pattern.) 



One SPECIAL PATTERN personally known to the writer to have 



been used with much success, has: 

 Wings, extra long and set upright, of white deer-tail with 



gray mottled (wood-duck) shoulders (these erect wings 



bend down and trail beyond the hook when fly is drawn 



through the water) ; 



Body, white or yellow chenille ribbed with scarlet; 

 Legs, white deer-tail or hackle; Tail, scarlet. 



An effective bucktail bass-fly (the Christian, "special 

 pattern" of above list) 



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