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Adams Variant

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

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

Materials

• Tail Grizzly and brown hackle (long mixed hackle fibers)
• Body Adams gray (slim superfine dubbing)
• Hackle Grizzly and brown hackle (1 each, oversized)

How to tie it

1. Mount the hook and start thread.
2. Tie a long tail of mixed grizzly and brown fibers, about 1.5 shank lengths, for balance.
3. Dub a very slim gray body to the 75% mark.
4. Tie in oversized grizzly and brown hackles, one to two sizes large.
5. Wind 5-6 dense turns at the front and tie off.
6. Whip finish at the eye.

Tying videos

• Adams Variant — Savage Flies (YouTube)
• Adams Variant — Nick Mango (YouTube)
• Adams Variant — Davie McPhail (YouTube)
• Adams Variant — Savage Flies (YouTube)

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