Hareline Chernobyl Style Tapered End Foam Body Cutter

What it is

This is a tapered-end foam body cutter tool for punching out consistent foam shapes. It has sharp, durable blades that cut clean and precise, so your foam bodies come off the sheet with a uniform taper instead of ragged edges.

What to tie with it

Use it to cut tapered foam bodies for foam fly patterns, especially Chernobyl-style bodies. You’ll typically punch the shape out of foam, then tie it in as the body and stack or laminate foam layers for more flotation and profile.

Flies and the fish they're for

It’s built around the Chernobyl Ant, a go-to terrestrial/attractor that gets eaten by trout on rivers and freestones, especially when they’re looking up for big buoyant meals. The same tapered foam body shape also crosses over well to big foam stonefly-style dries for trout in fast water. Tiers also use this cutter style to build mouse flies, which are fished for trout in low light along banks where mice get swept in.

How it compares

Compared to manual cutting, the cutter is faster and gives you more consistent, repeatable body shapes from fly to fly. That consistency helps when you’re tying a batch and want every body to match in length and taper.