One of the most popular and productive Salmon flies for our fishing in Russia, has to be the Red Butt.
There are many ideas how a Red Butt should look like. Hereby how a Red Butt should look like according our “House fly tire” Thorsten Strüben
Red Butt
Butt: Fine oval silver Tinsel
Tag : Red Flatbraid
Tail: Red Fluofiber
Body: first half/ silver Flatbraid. Second half/ peacock ice dubbing
Ribbing: medium oval silver Tinsel
Bodyhackle: black hackle
Wing: black Tanuki
Throat: black hackle
Sides: jungle cock
Head: red Thread
Hook: Partridge Double Wilson/ Low Water Size 6
No matter what Salmon River on the Kola Peninsular you are going to fish in 2013, you must to bring a dozen of Red Butt´s in size 4 – 8
If you need some super flies for the upcoming season, you can always mail Thorsten Strüben – thorstenstrueben@aol.com