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Adams

Dry
#12–16greyBest: Apr–Sep

When to use

A general-purpose dry for rivers, lough margins and slicks when trout are taking small to medium upwings. Fish it singly, dead-drift on rivers, or static on calmer stillwater.

Imitates

General upwinged dun; often used as an all-round olive-style mayfly dry.

Team position

Single fly; commonly fished alone rather than as part of a wet-fly team.

Best methods

Dead-driftDry, static

Dressing

Hook
dry fly, #12-16
Thread
grey
Tail
grizzle or red-brown cock hackle fibres
Body
blue-grey rabbit underfur dubbing
Hackle
grizzle and natural red cock, wound together
Wing
two grizzle hackle points
Head
thread head

Modern UK/Irish commercially standard dressing. The original Halladay recipe used golden pheasant tippet tails and grey wool yarn.

Pairs with

Retrieve & line

  • Fished dry and static — floating line

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