Description

Butcher

This famous wet fly was originally called Moon’s Fly after a butcher called Moon whose favorite pattern it was. Developed by John Jewhurst the fly was newly named by William Blacker around 1838 as per Moon’s profession arguably as a marketing gimmick. Well the name change worked well as it became one of the best selling trout flies and I think many falsely associated the name with the killing abilities of this fly. There has also been theories that the color red represents blood, silver the blade and blue wing the apron of a butcher.

There are couple well known variations like the Bloody Butcher and Kingfisher Butcher which have proved their worth too in any anglers box.
These flies are tied to order so estimate a 2-4 weeks tying time depending on our order queue.