Adams - Fly Fishing Dry Fly

Dry flies like Adams are an important weapon in the fly fisherman's arsenal and there is little that matches the excitement of seeing a fish rise and take your Adams from the surface. In some rivers just like the chalk streams of England Adams and other typical trout dry flies are the only flies permitted to be used. Choosing the right trout fly can be difficult and over the years it has almost become a black art with Adams one of thousands of variations of trout dry flies available! The sensible fly fisherman will of course match the hatch when they starts fishing, there are often key flies like caddis, sedge, mayflies or olives that should always be considered when hatching or clever flies like Klinkhammers which with their parachute and body dipping into the sub-surface look like a fly emerging.

Adams - Dry Fly

Adams created by Leonard Hallady.

Adams trout dry fly

The Adams dry fly, although invented in the Michigan in the early 1920's however it is still is a modern looking fly. This is a standard fly fishing fly in my fly box and has caught fish all around the world, indeed sales show it is one of the most popular flies world-wide.

Use The Adams To Catch:

	The Adams can be used to catch Cutthroat
	The Adams can be used to catch Rainbow Trout
	The Adams can be used to catch Arctic Char
	The Adams can be used to catch Brown Trout
	The Adams can be used to catch Grayling

As the name indicates dry flies which include Adams are designed to float on the surface of the water. Trout dry flies types which include Adams imitate a wide variery of flies and insects which inhabit the surface of the water. There is nothing like using dry flies and watching trout and grayling rise to the surface. To purists dry fly fishing is the true art-form of fly fishing, indeed some rivers only permit dry fly fishing. There are some dry flies (e.g. the Popper, Muddlers) which are designed to attract fish by the action of creating a surface disturbance. The flies are made from very bouyant materials (e.g, cork, ethafoam or deer hair, the latter having a generous application of floatant). A Muddler retrieved upwind of a rise can often result in a bulge in the water as the fish follows the fly.

Dry Fly Fishing Techniques With The Adams

A dry fly like Adams has flotant (Gink is the most popular) warmed in your hand and gently rubbed into the hackles to help Adams float and they are usually cast singly on a trout tapered leader. A floating line is used, but with the tapered leader de-greased so that it does not glint and flash light spooking the trout

Special Fishing Techniques with the Adams

Treat the Adams with flotant and leave it to drift on the surface. After a while pull it across the surface for a distance of about 3 feet (1 metre) to make it seem like it is accelerating prior to attempting take-off then stop the retrieve abruptly as if the fly has aborted take-off. Leave the Adams to site for a minute of so longer then move it again. This will often stimulate trout into attacking the fly

Sometimes Trout dry flies are sometimes created with no particular insect in mind, such type of artificial flies are called fancy or attractor flies, the Adams in a great example of an attractor or fancy fly. A number of alternative rigs can be used while casting Adams trout dry flies. Typically Adams Trout flies are cast as a single fly on a fly line and tapered leader which turns the Adams over through the cast allowing the Adams to carefully fall on top of the water like a natural fly, stimulating the Trout. Additional techniques with Adams and other trout dry flies can consist of multiple dry fly rigs, tandem rigs suspending buzzers or nymphs so the Adams acts as a fly and bite indicator and dapping. Actually dry fly fishing with dry flies like Adams is possibly the oldest type of fly fishing when long poles used to be used as rods plus fly lines made from horsehair or other natural fibres, these were the original dapping flies!

Adams Trout Dry Fly - Adams

Today numerous fly tyers have created dry fly fishing flies like Adams, starting from Adams, Ron Steenrods' Hendrickson named after one of his best customers to the modern Klinkhammer. One of the most well-known trout dry flies today will be Klinkhammer designed by fly fishermen Hans Van Klinken. The Klinkhammer includes a parachute hackle that floats at the surface, a post that is visible to the angler along with a body that sits over the water surface and tucks down into the surface film imitating an insect emerging from its pupal form.

Typically trout dry flies ranging from size 8 to size 22.

Available in Fly Size(s)
12, 14, 16, 18, 20

The Adams was last modified on 30/12/2011 16:40

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Trout Flies Range

As well as selling Adams trout dry flies The Essential Fly sells a range of trout dry flies of diffrent types including Blank Buster Klinkhammers, Bristol Hoppers, Craneflies, Daddies or Daddy-long-legs, Caddis flies, Damsels, Dapping Flies, Foam Flies, Hackled Dry Flies, Humpies & Irresistibles, Klinkhammers, Mayflies, Micro Dry Flies, Midge Flies, Midge Dry Flies, Parachute, Klinkhammer & Thorax flies, Stimulators & Stones, Terrestrials and Winged Dry Flies.

Of course for trout fly fishing as well as Adams dry fies you can also look at Buzzers, Trout nymphs & buzzers, Trout Wet Flies, Trout lures, Trout streamers.

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Adams - Fly Tying Dressing

Fly Tying Difficulty: 3

For the more adventurous among you we have provided tying specifications for the Adams. Remember at The Essential Fly we sell the Adams at incredible prices with a top quality fly and service to back it up. It is certainly worth tying the Adams yourself to understand the pleasure of catching a fish with your own tied fly, however at the price we sell flies it is only worth tying one or two Adams as your can spend more time fishing instead of tying flies - buy volume online with us.