Adams Humpy SBS

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Rough water version; subbed moose body for brown/grizz hackle fiber tail.

 

 

hook - Dai Riki 320 #14

thread - UTC 70 brown

tail - moose body

abdomen - muskrat dubbing

hump - deer hair

wings - hackle tips grizzly

hackle - brown/grizzly

 

Mash down barb, start thread at 60% mark; wrap back to point above barb

 

 

 

clean, stack, measure (shank) a clump of moose body; tie in, trim butts

 

 

 

 

clean, trim some deer hair (I tie in at the butts to get the thicker section of the fiber for a bit more buoyancy); tie in

 

 

 

dub thread, dub abdomen up to 60% mark

 

 

 

 

pull deer hair up/over back, twist slightly (clockwise in Northern hemisphere, counter in the South); tie down, trim butts

 

 

 

 

take a pair of hen hackle tips (= to gap width), put them together with the tips curving away from each other, measure for length (entire hook); tie in at 70% mark

 

 

 

 

 

trim butts, smooth with thread; pull wings up/back and wrap in front to set the proper angle

 

 

 

tie in hackle; wrap in sequence

 

 

 

tie off, trim, half hitch x 2, SHHAN

 

 

 

 

 

Regards,

Scott

[Steven1911 0]

Nice job!

[Dave G. 0]

Hmm, I've never tied an Adams Humpy. I've done yellow bodied Humpies because someone told me the salmon like them in Yellow Sally hatches. Never caught a salmon on one and then it dawned on me that I don't see salmon on the naturals either. So I dumped the pattern but Liked tying them and they always floated well.. Thanks for this SBS, with some imagination this could be applied to other standard patterns as well, in the form of a variant perhaps..

[troutah 0]

That's a great fly. I love humpies and an adams humpy is even better.

[Kudu 0]

You know somebody is good at what they do when they make it look effortless and easy! Nice!