wing? Is the fly less effective without the additional color and second wing?:cool:
wing? Is the fly less effective without the additional color and second wing?:cool:
Do you mean for the hackle? I do sometimes, especially on larger (#12 and up) flies, but just as often only use grizzly hackle and the fish don't mind. I guess technically, it's not an Adams at that point; up to others to decide if that's important, I don't care.
Regards,
Scott
You can use just one cree feather and get the same results form a brown and grizzly rabbed together.
Ghost.
On parachute adams i do not use the brown. I only use a grizzly. I like it more because i think it looks more like a mosquito and i fish over mosquitos all the time
Hi Deepcreek,
My answer to your question is a highly definitive "Yes" and "No." If someone were paying me to tie a Parachute Adams, I would feel obligated to tie those flies by the book, i.e. with brown and grizzly hackle. If I'm tying the flies for personal use or if I may give them to a friend, the hackle is purely my choice---all brown, all grizzly, mixed brown and grizzly or sky blue pink for that matter. I think that far too many fly tyers spend way too much time worrying about using exactly the right, by-the-book material and 99% of the time the fish could care less. Get the size and right and you will catch fish most of the time. 8T :)
Many liberties are taken in fly tying. If you're tying flies for personal use, there are no (okay...maybe a few) rules.
That said, you probably won't find many fly shops selling para Adams without mixed grizz/brown hackle. The dressing specifies both hackle colors, and I don't think it would be reasonable for a fly lacking one of the hackle colors to be commercially sold as a para Adams. I say this even though a variety of wing materials (calf, poly, Z-lon, etc) still seem to be accepted commercially.
Tie a para Adams with only grizzly, another with only brown, and a third with both hackle colors. There will be a slight difference in appearance: lighter-, darker- and medium-toned, respectively. But the para Adams is still a general pattern and not imitative of any particular hatch. Unless your fishing over trout that are especially fond of a traditionally-tied para Adams, there's nothing to entirely rule out the potential of your single-color version; in some instances, it could more effective than the traditional tie. I think the errors many of us make in fly size, insect stage or presentation will often be more detrimental than a fly with "slightly off" hackle color.
1 grizzly varaiant should do the trick.
Tie it how ever you want, if you don't use both colors, don't call it an Adams. I often refer to many of the patterns that I tie as "Adams inspired" patterns or whatever you used as an inspiration to try your particular pattern. Have fun.
Rick
I tie mine with grizzly only (occasionally hitting a few of them with a brown prismacolor). I tie em without the brown feather, fish em without the brown feather, catch lots of fish on em, call em adams...and I've never once been stopped & cited on the stream by the pedantic police. ;)
I think that Eight Thumbs has a very important point here. So many tiers think that they must follow a fly recipe to the last detail or else the fly is useless. This is getting rediculous with the proliferation of similar, look-alike, materials these days. I know of one good tier who is into this to the point of breaking the family bank just to keep pace. If variations in materials makes a difference that is good, but beyond that it gets rediculous.