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ADAMS IRRESISTIBLE

This fly floats like a cork and what's more fish accept it as a variety of food items. In smaller sizes it is an excellent Baetis Dun imitation and an excellent fly in still water particularly when Snow Flake Caddis are about. In larger sizes it is an excellent fly for fast water or as a top fly in dry / nymph combination.


MATERIALS:

Hook   Size - 12 to 16 light gauge long shank
Thread  - Grey
Tail  - Grizzly & brown feather hackle fibres or moose hair
Body & thorax - Clipped natural Deer Hair or grey / brown dubbing
Wings  - Grizzly or brown hackle tips or grey duck feather slips
Hackle - One Grizzly and one Brown hackle

A)

Because the body of this fly is spun deer hair you have to leave as much as possible of the hook shank free of thread.  Start the fly by taking two or three turns of thread at the bend of the hook.

B)

Tie in a tail equal to about 3/4 of the length of the hook shank of  5 or 6 hackle fibres or moose hair. You should not need it but its good insurance to put a drop of head cement on the spot where the tail is tied in.




C)

Now spin deer hair along the rear 2/3 of the bare hook shank and trim it to shape with a sharp pair of scissors or a blade.

 

D)

Take two matching feather tips and tie them in as wings in an upright but separated position half the distance between the body and the eye of the hook.



E)
  1. Tie in two similar shaped hackle feathers between the body and the wings.
  2. Take the thread forward to the 95% position.




F)
  1. Wind the hackle equally behind and in front of the wing and tie off and trim.
  2. Build up a neat head.
  3. Whip finish and varnish the head.
Copyright © 2005 Stephen Chatterton / Fish on Fly P/L - All rights reserved.
Last modified: 11-Jun-2008.

 
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