Here's an odd one and I doubt if I am alone in this. Flies you used frequently but fell out of favour for some reason then one day you rediscover them.
I used the Parachute Adams a lot when I lived beside the Don. When I moved down to Angus in 2013 for some reason I stopped using it. This was not a conscious decision – I sort of just forgot about it.
A few days ago when changing flies (I had just had several refusals) I found some in the corner of my box. I tied one on and caught the fish. I rose another fish next cast. I caught another ½ doz fish on it today.
The Adams is an odd fly it sort of looks like everything while at the same time looks like nothing.
Do you have any flies like this? Ones you used to use a lot but no longer do.
isn't the parachute adams a john gierach go-to fly, Fred? never used one myself; maybe i should?
cinnamon emerger for me :8)
Yes oddly another parachute patterns ....... for the last couple of years I have been using the aforementioned Parachute Adams and the parachute version of Greenwells Glory. At the tail end of last season I rekindled my appreciation of the Iron Blue Dunn parachute.
Some info here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlWvknppquQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlWvknppquQ)
Coch y Bondhu for me.
I used to tie it when I worked in North Wales 20 odd years ago and I had the same situation fishing one day. I was pulling my hair out one day going through my boxes trying to decide what next to try.
I found one and it's one of the first I go to now.
Billy
targeted & taken on a size 12 para adams yesterday. not by me, i hasten to add; australia mate! :8)
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Quote from: corsican dave on April 08, 2017, 10:52:53 PM
isn't the parachute adams a john gierach go-to fly,
He wrote mainly about the standard Adams I think Dave. I suppose it's the American "Greenwells Glory".
Quote from: admin on April 09, 2017, 10:16:03 AM
He wrote mainly about the standard Adams I think Dave. I suppose it's the American "Greenwells Glory".
now that's another i pull out of the bag now and then. along with a wickhams
Has to be the Jingler for me. A great early season fly I never had off my cast when fishing the Tummel and Tweed early doors. Represents each of the big olives that hatch spring and can be fished dry or wet with equal confidence.
I haven't had one on for several years now much preferring a new pattern I have come across called 'the big broon'. A mate from Ayrshire gave me a few and I have so much confidence in them that it's now my go to fly for spring feeders. I tie them in a slightly lighter colour and a little sparser for when the Olive Uprights come off later this month/start of May.
Grey duster para. looks like everything and nothing.
Used it all the time on my old trout stream but just popped into my head there when reading this thread.
Never used it in a few years, like you say I had just forgot about it.
I used to tie a dry I called the bugsy, because it had rabbit hair as a body. I don't normally name flies but my pal used to ask what I was getting them on and it became easier to name the fly rather than describe it. :)
For the record, it was quite "jinglery".
Tail: black cock fibres
Body: dubbed rabbit
Rib: fine copper wire
Hackles: brown partridge with long black hackle wound through it.
Tying silk: any old thing :lol:
Well for me its the Beacon Beige - Where are they ?
A Double Badger is a good go to dry though . It can be tied Full or sparse and works in either guise .
Quote from: Highlander on April 08, 2017, 11:47:34 PM
Some info here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlWvknppquQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlWvknppquQ)
First time I've seen a tippet tail tied like that, must be pretty fragile.
[quoteFirst time I've seen a tippet tail tied like that, must be pretty fragile. ][/quote]
Just ran the video , thought there must have been something different in the tail. Seems fine to me. Golden Pheasant tippet are quite a sturdy feather so I do not see any issue in using a couple of fibres in this fashion rather than the "bunch" one sees in lots of fancy wet flies. The few times I tie dries I use sometimes Coq De Leon fibres for tails & they are quite fine but stand up well OK.
By the way they make excellent tailing fibres. I use the Spanish feathers not the Whiting/Veniard ones which are not a patch on the proper ones.
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Just never seen a tail using only two tipper fibres before. Do you know of any other patterns using similar tails?
The Grey Duster was one I rediscovered last year, again it is one of those nondescript flies which can imitate lots of things.
QuoteJust never seen a tail using only two tipper fibres before. Do you know of any other patterns using similar tails?
No Robbie I do not. I am sure in this U Tube pattern it is not the "original tying" Still all down to the tyer, suppose it brings something new to the table so why not.
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