Category: Fly Fishing Basics
Red Tag - one of the most universal flies for trout, grayling and chub.
Red Tag is one of the most versatile artificial flies, and many different small and bigger fish can be caught with it (trout, grayling, chub).
Red Tag looks like this: a small bloody red tag, a body from a peacock herl, a hackle of rusty cock feather from the rooster's throat. I always carry Red Tag in three sizes (No. 12, 16, 18) in three pieces of each size.
Nowadays there are dozens of variants of red tag - either dry flies, wet flies, nymphs, jigs...
Some other variants of Red Tag:
