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Parachute Adams Indicator

Dry Fly · Trout · Grayling · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook standard dry-fly hook, 10-16
  • Thread gray 8/0

Materials

  • Poly yarn (oversized indicator post) Fluorescent orange poly yarn (generous 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 a generous upright fluorescent post at the 70% mark, collaring its base so it stands tall and bushy.
  2. Tie in a mixed brown-and-grizzly tail at the bend, one shank length long.
  3. Dub a gray body from the bend to the post.
  4. Tie one grizzly and one brown hackle in at the post, shiny side up.
  5. Dub a small thorax around the post base and up to the eye.
  6. Wind both hackles parachute-style in 5-6 turns for extra buoyancy and tie off against the post.
  7. Whip finish at the eye and add a tiny drop of cement, keeping it off the hackle.

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