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Para Adams

Dry Fly · Trout · Grayling · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook standard dry-fly hook, 12-20
  • Thread gray 8/0

Materials

  • Poly yarn or calf body hair (post) White calf body hair (small tuft)
  • Hackle barbs (tail) Mixed brown and grizzly (small bunch)
  • Adams gray dubbing Muskrat gray (small pinch)
  • Dry-fly hackle 1 brown + 1 grizzly dry fly hackle (2 feathers)

How to tie it

  1. Start the thread and tie in an upright white post at the 70% mark, then build a thread collar at its base to stand it up.
  2. Tie in a mixed brown-and-grizzly tail at the bend, one shank length long.
  3. Dub a slim gray body from the bend forward to the base of the post.
  4. Tie one grizzly and one brown hackle in at the post, shiny side up.
  5. Dub a small thorax across the post base and up to the eye.
  6. Wind both hackles together down the post in 4-6 turns, each turn under the last, and tie off against the post base.
  7. Whip finish at the eye, keeping the wraps clear of the hackle, and add a tiny drop of cement.

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