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Adams Superfly

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

• Hook standard dry fly, 12-16
• Thread gray 70 denier

Materials

• Extended body Adams gray (dubbing or deer hair, detached)
• Tail Dun microfibetts (split microfibetts)
• Wings Grizzly hackle (hackle tips, splayed spent)
• Hackle Grizzly and brown hackle (1 each, stacked)

How to tie it

1. Mount the hook and start thread mid-shank.
2. Build a gray detached body off the bend with split microfibett tails one shank length long.
3. Bind the body butt at mid-shank.
4. Tie in grizzly hackle-tip wings splayed low and spent to each side.
5. Tie in grizzly and brown hackles and stack 5-6 turns through the thorax for a dense footprint.
6. Trim stray fibers underneath if you want it flush, then whip finish at the eye.

Tying videos

• Adams Superfly — Savage Flies (YouTube)
• Adams Superfly — Capt Matt Thomas (YouTube)
• Adams Superfly — tightlinevideo (YouTube)

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