Parachute Adams
Description
The Parachute Adams is a low-riding dry fly for mayfly duns and general surface searching. It keeps the gray Adams body and mixed hackle look, but the upright post and horizontal hackle make it easier to see and help it sit flush in the film. Fish it through spring and summer mayfly hatches on streams, tailwaters, and stillwater edges.
Materials
- body and thorax: Adams Gray Dubbing
- thread: Black, 8/0 or 70-denier Thread.
- tail and parachute hackle: Brown Hackle
- tail and parachute hackle: Grizzly Hackle
- hook: Standard Dry Fly Hook
- wing post: White Polypropylene Yarn
Tying Instructions
- 1.
Secure the hook in the vise with the shank level.
- 2.
Start the thread behind the eye and wrap a smooth thread base back to the bend.
- 3.
Tie in a small mixed bunch of grizzly and brown hackle fibers for the tail, about one hook shank long.
- 4.
Wrap the thread forward to the front third of the shank.
- 5.
Tie in a short bundle of white polypropylene yarn on top of the shank and post it upright with firm thread wraps.
- 6.
Tie in one grizzly hackle and one brown hackle at the base of the post with the dull sides facing down.
- 7.
Wrap the thread back to the tail and dub a slim Adams gray body forward to the post.
- 8.
Dub a slightly fuller thorax around the base of the post, leaving room behind the eye for the head.
- 9.
Wind both hackles together horizontally around the post, working from the top down in close turns.
- 10.
Tie off the hackle at the base of the post and trim the waste.
- 11.
Build a small thread head behind the eye without crowding it.
- 12.
Whip finish and apply a small drop of head cement to the thread head and post base.