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Adams Hairwing Dun

Dry Fly · Trout · Grayling · Intermediate · 2 versions

Reference Recipe

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

Materials

• Tail Moose/dun (hackle or hair fibers)
• Body Adams gray (superfine dubbing)
• Wing Natural case (deer hair, upright divided)
• Hackle Grizzly and brown hackle (1 each)

How to tie it

1. Mount the hook and start thread.
2. Tie a tail of dun or moose fibers one shank length long.
3. Stack a clump of deer hair, tie it upright at the 65% mark, and divide it into two wings with figure-8s and thread posts.
4. Dub a slim gray body from the bend to the wing.
5. Tie in grizzly and brown hackle at the wing base.
6. Wind 4-5 turns fore and aft of the wing and tie off.
7. Whip finish at the eye.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie.

Tying videos

• Adams Hairwing Dun — Fly Fish Food (YouTube)
• Adams Hairwing Dun — Shota Jokhadze ©ShotaFlies (YouTube)
• Adams Hairwing Dun — The feather bender (YouTube)
• Adams Hairwing Dun — Fly Fish Food (Fly Fish Food (tutorial))

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