Adams Gray - How versatile?

[nativebrownie]

According to many, Ed Van Put, "the Admiral of the Delaware", fished for years for those West Branch Delaware rainbows with only a hackled Adams - for years...

 

[AVL]

It’s my go to as well, can vary size & both body & hackle colors & pretty much cover most all mayflies. Mix in some varying sizes & colors of elk hair & x caddis, pretty much have it covered. But yet I still feel compelled to carry hundreds of other dries, just in case, probably called mental illness…

 

[wildtrout2]

Yeah, I always tie bright posts. Some orange mixed with white.

I like the white post, it allows me to see the fly pretty easily on the drift.

 

[Broodstock]

I like the white post, it allows me to see the fly pretty easily on the drift.

When I’m fishing a small (18+) dry without a good high viz post I usually just trail it about 12” behind a bigger more visible dry.

 

[jifigz]

When I’m fishing a small (18+) dry without a good high viz post I usually just trail it about 12” behind a bigger more visible dry.

Or, sometimes, I will put the tiniest but brightly colored yarn indiy there to see. That is an ice option, too.

 

[nymphingmaniac]

Or, sometimes, I will put the tiniest but brightly colored yarn indiy there to see. That is an ice option, too.

+1 an under appreciated and under utilized approach. Its true a fish could talk your big dry, but in my hands that creates more drag and a disturbance than a pinch of yarn