Jeff, i’ve never tried them that way…but I will be. lol. Have you tried them varient style?
Overall, I gotta agree with the parachute version.
Hi pspaint,
I’ve not tied any with moose mane tails, if that’s what you mean by variant. I do tend to use a furnace hackle and grizzle and not just a brown and grizzle because I like the black “body section” the furnance creates.
I think I leave the wings off because if I find a couple grizzle feathers that make nice matched wings with good barring, I end up wanting to use them for hackles. If, however, they are poorly marked and don’t match well, I don’t want to put them on as wings because they look bad! I have occasionally thought of using mallard breast feather fibres, which I use for wings on other dries. Just don’t think I’ve bothered yet.
It’s funny how everyone says that parachute flies are easier to tie. I’ve never tied one because to me they look so much more difficult! When I want a fly to float in the surface film, I use a light wire soft hackle. I really should learn to tie parachutes though. Would give me something new to fixate on. ha!
- Jeff
Traditional.
I like the parachute Adams better. But it’s always good to tie classics.
nice pic caddis 16 . some good looking flies.
“The trick is not to put yourself in the trees or the tall grass.”
But that’s where the trout are! Yes, I saw the wink… I’m up in Highland Park, and our club- the Northern Illinois Fly Tyers- meets in Schaumburg. Right now the snow is piling up, and I can only dream about wading a clear little stream.
Chuck
Very nice ties Caddis16! Nicely consistent too!
- Jeff
All the picture of the various ties look like they’d catch fish. Nice job everyone. My favorite variation on this theme is a gray biot body parachute with an egg sac, as pictured below. I’ve tied, carry, and fish a catskill style as well but I do tend to favor parachute ties. In any case, interesting thread.
Traditional style, although with all the talk of parachute adams I might try some.
Historically, I’ve found the fish in the water. :>)
Getting to work was brutal this morning. Amazing to think the SWW season starts in a month.
I’ve never seen a wet adams quite like this one. I absolutely love it! The orange partridge looks like something that would be absolutely deadly on my home waters! Sweet fly Creek!
I really like a parachute Adams for fishing, but I have to tie the Catskill style now and again. They are just so damn beautiful. Nice ties everyone.
Hi Caddis
I think you hit the nail right on the head. Parachutes fish better but that Catskill style is just plain gorgeous. Your Catskill Adams on that cork are very impressive. Really nice job. 8T 
Fellas Fellas. We all have our different ways of tying every fly. Just pick a pattern you can tie easily and quick an that you have confidense in and remember PRESENTATION before anything esle and you will catch tons of fish. Tight Lines, Kyle
I wa thinking about this thread when I tied this
with a tail of mink guard hairs, a turkey biot abdomen and a hi-vis wing. I know it will catch fish but is still an adams?
Well, R-Chaser, since YOU ASKED… about the only “it is still an Adams?, question, all I can think of that IS, is the hook you maybe used!! ha!! But, I agree with you, 100% IT IS a darn nice looking fly and surely will attract your desired quarry!
I guess, you could call it a “variation of the Adams”, but a I’m sure you know already… for “an Adams to be an Adams”, it should be tied, per original recipe.
But, ONLY if you’re trying to “duplicate authenticity”, from a fly tying standpoint.
There’s so many variations of every standard pattern, that there’s really not much “NEW” being tied today. There’s “improvements” and “alterations” and “changes” which many claim “are for the better” and they may be right to some degree, but it still boils down to “changing this and that, on an original idea”.
Flies like the “Western Adams” the “Parachute Adams”, are only variations of an already designed theme.
I was tying at a fly show, earlier this year in California. I guy 2 tables away, was tying what he claimed was “A Renegade”. He went on and on, about the history of the Renegade, it’s effectiveness of imitating various insects, etc.
You’d have thought, listening to the man, that this was THE FLY to end all flies and ESPECIALLY “HIS version” of it”. He fielded a lot of questions from young and older tiers as he tied and as he did, he sat there for two days and tied his “ORIGINAL Renegades”, (HIS term, not mine!), by using chartreuse yarn, for the body, no tag and BLACK hackles, both front and rear!
I don’t have a clue as to where he got his information on the Renegade, or, the recipe he was using. WAS IT, a “true Renegade”? No, of course not. But, HE thought so, evidently and except for kinda-sorta, misleading some newer tiers, he didn’t really do much harm.
So,again, I really like the looks of your tie and it doesn’t matter, what you tie as long as you love doing it and you have faith in it!!