A meaningless observation and a question

"Tim J." wrote in
:

The Adams is one of those indespensible patterns that imitates
nothing, but usually seems to draw attention from fish. I probably
use that dry patterns more than any, and certainly have Adams tied
in more sizes than any other dry fly in my box.


I was fishing a mountain stream this past weekend that sees sparse
hatches and probably nothing like an Adams. Yet I was getting hits on
most decent drifts. It is a superb 'go to' pattern when all else
fails. It defines bugginess. On the 'Kill a friend was walking back
upstream after successfully putting down a pool of rising fish and
caught a brookie on his Adams that was dragging behind him.

It does not work at the secret spot though. Nothing does.