Red tag

Hook: Any dry fly hook, preferably a short shank hook like Patridge TDH
Tail: Red wool
Abdomen: Peacock herls
Hackel: Brown

The Red tag is a classic fly that can be tied in both a dry and a wet version. This one here is tied as a dry fly, but can easily be switched to a wet fly by switching the hackel to a soft wet fly hackle like hen cape or simillar. The fly goes back to the mid 1800 and the originator is supposed to be a gentleman named Martin Flynn in Worchester, also the orginal name is "Worchester gem".

Here in sweden the Red tag is known as a great grayling fly, my own experience is that it sometimes works just aswell for trout.

This is a simple fly to tie and for alot of us it was the first dry fly we learned to tie. .