Gary Tanner Flies

Name	Cutty Sark
Category	Atlantic Salmon
Thread	Gordon Griffiths 14/0 Claret
Tag	Fine copper wire or oval tinsel - sized to suit fly size
Tip	Either the floss blend (see below) or your orange floss of choice
Butt	Black beaver dubbing
Body	Rear half fluorescent green floss, front half peacock herl
Rib	Gold oval tinsel
Hackle (throat)	Black hen
Underwing	Floss blend or peachy orange floss to tag under green fluorescent floss to tip of tail
Wing	Tented teal
Head	Claret

Cutty Sark was tied by contributing fly tyer Gary Tanner. See Gary's notes below about this fly and read more about it on his blog: The River's Course. See more of his flies on his contributor page, The Flies of Gary Tanner.

Gary's Notes: Bob Warren of Princeton, Massachusetts developed the Cutty Sark (named for Bob's beverage of choice) over a period of years, starting, I believe, in the early 1990's. According to Keith Fulsher in his memoir, Atlantic Salmon Fly Tyer (Fly Fishing University Press, 2008), the fly started out as a hairwing, but Bob converted it to a featherwing fairly early in the fly's development.