"Larry Medina" wrote in message
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If you're having difficulties with the Parachute post and hackle, check this out:

http://www.troutflies.com/tutorials/...te/index.shtml

I went to Harry's site, but it doesn't have a tutor on the parachute Adams. I will be
visiting his site once I begin tyin' other patterns though. I'm not really havin'
problems tyin' the parachute. I found that as long as I have a good build-up of
thread around the post, the hackles wrap nicely. Tying the hackles off is another
matter. :~^(

As for the colors, well... it's a matter of taste.

I'll likely stick to the traditional colors, as they seem to work well on our wild
trout.

I tie a natural Adams which is a light Grey body, and I tie an olive Adams.

Can you e-mail a pic of you Olive?

You can use moose mane for the tail or a mixture of grizz and brown hackle fibers.

Hughes reccommends moose body hair, but I think I have the mane hair and it is too
sparce of the dark end fibers, for what I paid for a small swatch of it.


On the olive one, I use a dun hackle and tail.

I don't have any dun feather presently, but will be gettin' some soon, as my next
pattern will be the PDM--it's so cute and catches trout in the early Spring hear.

Thanks for the advice Larry!

Mark


Larry