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#12 Adams .... the standard tie, not parachute or some variation

If you go to Slough, or are in the area after the Yellowstone opens, you
will encounter Gray Drakes and an Adams works well. For some reason I
always get a great kick ot of having a "real bug" reason to fish such a
classic. Add the fact that my first ever fly rod trout ate a #12 Adams on
the Yellowstone ... and my box always has a couple

Larry L wrote:
#12 Adams .... the standard tie, not parachute or some variation

If you go to Slough, or are in the area after the Yellowstone opens, you
will encounter Gray Drakes and an Adams works well. For some reason I
always get a great kick ot of having a "real bug" reason to fish such a
classic. Add the fact that my first ever fly rod trout ate a #12 Adams on
the Yellowstone ... and my box always has a couple

I know it's contrary to the current, very pronounced orthodoxy (and
maybe indicative of advanced old farthood), but I still find the
standard Adams to be both more productive and easier to see on the water
than the parachute tie. I keep both in my dries box, but almost always
start with, or soon fall back on, the standard.

JR

"JR" wrote in message
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Larry L wrote:
#12 Adams .... the standard tie, not parachute or some variation

If you go to Slough, or are in the area after the Yellowstone opens, you
will encounter Gray Drakes and an Adams works well. For some reason I
always get a great kick ot of having a "real bug" reason to fish such a
classic. Add the fact that my first ever fly rod trout ate a #12 Adams
on the Yellowstone ... and my box always has a couple

I know it's contrary to the current, very pronounced orthodoxy (and maybe
indicative of advanced old farthood), but I still find the standard Adams
to be both more productive and easier to see on the water than the
parachute tie. I keep both in my dries box, but almost always start with,
or soon fall back on, the standard.

JR

For some strange reason, the parachute Adams seem to work best on the
streams I fish, and I like the pA cause I can see it better than the
standard pattern. The parachute also seems to work best in the Spring of
the year, here.

Mark

"JR" wrote


I know it's contrary to the current, very pronounced orthodoxy (and maybe
indicative of advanced old farthood), but I still find the standard Adams
to be both more productive and easier to see on the water than the
parachute tie. I keep both in my dries box, but almost always start with,
or soon fall back on, the standard.



I must be an oler fart ... I don't carry parachute ties

although I have been know to wing the normally hackled pattern with poly
instead of mucking with hackle points

"Larry L" wrote


I must be an oler fart ... I don't carry parachute ties


more accurately, I don't carry parachute Adams ... I do carry a couple
other's with parachute hackle

Frank
Also take your Cicada flies along instead of saving them for the next
decade and a half. You can pass them off to the Western ROFF contigent
as new, improved Salmonfly patterns. Also the trout will probably go
for them if there is a Salmonfly hatch going on.

Thanks for the reponses. Looks like I've got some tying to do,
especially if I need about 50 each (enough for the MD group) of all of
these flies: http://www.westfly.com/cgi-bin/hatchChart


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Frank Reid
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