Hook:
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10-16
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Thread:
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Red
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Tip:
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Silk buttonhole twist - Coats & Clark's 184, red, size D
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Body:
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Peacock herl
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Hackle:
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Partridge
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L. J. DeCuir lists the Red Ass as the Arkansas Red Butt in his Southeastern Flies (2000), noting that “peacock herl flies have always been good producers on the mountain streams of the Southeast and this one is no exception. This pattern is from Jerry Cobb. He’s had great success with it on the streams in the higher elevations in the Smokies as well as the Northern Arkansas trout streams.” DeCuir dressed it as a heavily hackled wet fly:
“Hook: Mustad 3906, TMC 3976 #8-16
Thread: Red
Tag: Red thread
Body: Peacock herl
Hackle: Partridge tied as a wet fly collar
Head: Red thread built up fairly heavily”
DeCuir points out that the Arkansas Red Butt
works equally well on trout in Southern Appalachian mountains or the tailraces of east Tennessee as it does on
panfish and bass in farm ponds and warm water impoundments.
Cobb’s combination of peacock herl, red
thread, and a black and white barred hackling recalls dressings like the Gray Hackle Peacock and its precedents; dressed without a tip, the fly bears a strong resemblance to Sylvester Neme's Syl's Nymph.
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