A meaningless observation and a question

Just for fun I dug out a large (#10) parachute Adams that I had tied
up more-or-less as a joke after having such good luck with #16 para
Adams on my trip to Canuckistan.

On the second drift I got a hit from a small sunfish, and I
continued getting action on almost every cast (well, on every good
drift, anyway) for the next 15-20 minutes. The fly took sunfish and
small Guadalupe bass.

I still can't figure out what they took the Adams for. The only
bugs in the air were some dragon and damselflies, but they were off in
color and size, and the fish weren't rising to them that I could see. I
don't know if the Adams might resemble an emerger or if it just looked
like some sort of generic food to them. Whatever it was, it saved me
from a fishless day on the water.

So has anyone else had luck with the Adams on both warm and
coldwater species?


Chuck Vance (who is wondering if a #2/0 Adams would work for
sal****er fish ;-)


I had a good friend who fished the Perch-Off at the Austin Angler for many
years and was damn near disqualified AGAIN a few years ago when he hit a hex
hatch out near the school on Town Lake and he caught one of those trash fish
(largemouth bass) on a size 4 adams. It was close to a perfect match for the
bugs on the water. This was at about daybreak that morning.

Big Dale

ospam (Big Dale) wrote in message ...

I had a good friend who fished the Perch-Off at the Austin Angler for many
years and was damn near disqualified AGAIN a few years ago when he hit a hex
hatch out near the school on Town Lake and he caught one of those trash fish
(largemouth bass) on a size 4 adams. It was close to a perfect match for the
bugs on the water. This was at about daybreak that morning.

Heh. Don't you *hate* when that happens. :-)

I think I know the area you're talking about on Town Lake. I used
to fish off one of the points just past the school parking lot. If
the water level was down, I could walk right out to a nice dropoff and
usually pick up a few decent bass.

As for the fly -- I was thinking about that very thing (Hex hatch)
when I was doing some tying on Monday night. That is one of the
hatches we get that is likely to get the interest of larger fish. I
tied 'em as #6, so I might need to go back to the vise again.


Chuck Vance

ospam (Big Dale) wrote in message ...

I had a good friend who fished the Perch-Off at the Austin Angler for many
years and was damn near disqualified AGAIN a few years ago when he hit a hex
hatch out near the school on Town Lake and he caught one of those trash fish
(largemouth bass) on a size 4 adams. It was close to a perfect match for the
bugs on the water. This was at about daybreak that morning.

Heh. Don't you *hate* when that happens. :-)

I think I know the area you're talking about on Town Lake. I used
to fish off one of the points just past the school parking lot. If
the water level was down, I could walk right out to a nice dropoff and
usually pick up a few decent bass.

As for the fly -- I was thinking about that very thing (Hex hatch)
when I was doing some tying on Monday night. That is one of the
hatches we get that is likely to get the interest of larger fish. I
tied 'em as #6, so I might need to go back to the vise again.


Chuck Vance