What is the original or traditional...

"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

"Larry Medina" wrote in message
m...

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