JR wrote:

[parachute vs. standard Adams]

True, it sits lower, but my experience about which the fish prefer is
the opposite.

(2) I hate tying the wings onto a traditional Adams.

I dislike that less than I dislike tying off the horizontally wound hackle.

Strangely enough, I find tying off a parachute hackle to be a simple
operation. I know when I first started tying trout (vs. bass) flies a
couple of years ago, I was intimidated by the parachute tie. Everyone
had advice about how to handle the "tricky" step of tying and securing
the hackle.

Maybe it's because I taught myself using Harry Mason's excellent
tutorial, but I find a parachute to be the easiest dry tie of them all.
There are a couple of important steps, like wrapping the hackle stem
up the post, bending the stem before winding, holding the hackle back
out of the way when tying off at the eye, but all of those operations
take about as long to write about as to actually perform.

(4) I can see it better. (Different folks, different strokes.) I use
white Antron for the post.

I see it worse. Sits low in the water, you know. g

That's why I tie mine with a chartreuse post. :-) And the fish
don't seem to mind. In fact, earlier in this thread I mentioned
catching a fish on a sunken para Adams. That fly had a chartreuse post.
:-)


Chuck Vance (who if forced to pick one fly would go to a #16 para
Adams and have complete confidence that it would work)