Black Bear Green Butt # 10

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Black Bear Green Butt # 8

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£3.18

The Black Bear – A famous salmon pattern from the 1920s

The Black Bear Green butt is a variation of the famous 1920s Black Bear salmon fly pattern, devised by Harry Smith, of Cherryfield, Maine. The Black Bear pattern is originally tied with hair from a black bear, such materials are hard to come by and many anglers tie their Black Bear patterns with hair from a.o fox, artic horse or as we have done with hair from natural black squirrel.

The Black Bear pattern has been made in many versions over the last decades but it is the version with silver ribbing and a bright green butt devised by Mr Charles Conrad we have chosen as one of our favourite flies to carry and fish with.

The Black Bear Green Butt is also known as the Conrad on the Miramichi river and is also a pattern that relates to patterns like the Preacher and Undertaker

Our version is tied on Partridge low-water double hooks # 10 & # 8 …

Bright butts on salmon and steelhead flies – why?

Bright colours and contrast

Above: Meganyctiphanes norvegica A krill commonly known as the Northern Krill. A crustacean that is a central figure in the zooplankton mass and an important course of food for whales, birds and fish in the north Atlantic

Bright colours and contrast

Above: Hymenodora glacialis Brilliant blood-red shrimp that grow; to 19 – 20-millimetre. Photo Mr Russ Hopcroft, World Register Of Marine Species