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Adams Cripple

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions

Reference Recipe

• Hook standard dry fly, 12-18
• Thread gray 70 denier

Materials

• Trailing shuck Brown permanent marker (Zelon, sparse)
• Abdomen Brown-gray material (superfine dubbing)
• Wing Natural case (deer hair tuft, upright)
• Thorax Adams gray (superfine dubbing)
• Hackle Grizzly and brown hackle (1 each)

How to tie it

1. Mount the hook and start thread at the bend.
2. Tie in a sparse brown Zelon trailing shuck half a shank long.
3. Dub a slim abdomen over the rear half, angled down into the bend to mimic a stuck emerger.
4. Stack a short deer-hair wing and post it upright at the 65% mark.
5. Tie in grizzly and brown hackle at the wing, then dub a gray thorax.
6. Wind 3-4 hackle turns at the thorax and tie off.
7. Whip finish at the eye.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie.

Tying videos

• Adams Cripple — Fly Fish Food (YouTube)
• Adams Cripple — Moonlit Fly Fishing (YouTube)
• Adams Cripple — The Weekly Fly (YouTube)
• Adams Cripple — Fly Fish Food (Fly Fish Food (tutorial))

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