Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 10 - 20
Thread - black
Tail - grizzly and brown hackle fibers mixed
Body - dubbed muskrat belly
Wings - grizzly hackle tips
Hackle - grizzly and brown mixed
Comments - If one is lucky enough today to find muskrat belly, to use it the tyer needs to remove all guard hair and then shear it. Fortunately, there are many sources of Adam's body dubbing in ready to use form.
Hackle tips may not be easy to come by. Substitutes include grizzly hen hackle tips and cut wings (from grizzly body feathers, hen backs, large hen neck feathers and the like), the latter not being one of our favorites.
The Female Adams is tied the same except that a butt of yellow poly yarn is tied in before the grey body to represent the egg sac.

Ant
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 14 - 20
Thread - black
Abdomen - black fur dubbing-formed into a hump
Hackle - black in middle of hook
Thorax - black rabbit fur-formed into a lump
 

Bivisible - Brown

Brown Bivisible
Hook - standard dry fly 10 - 14
Thread - black
Tail - brown hackle fibers
Body - brown hackle palmered-heavy
Hackle - cream 

Bivisible - Dun

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly 10 - 14
Thread - black
Tail - dun hackle fibers
Body - dun hackle palmered-heavy
Hackle - cream
 
Black Gnat

Black Gnat
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 12 - 20
Thread - black
Tail - black hackle fibers
Body - dyed black rabbit (or poly yarn)
Wings -grey duck quills
Hackle - natural or dyed black
 
 
Blue Dun

Blue Dun
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 10 - 16
Thread - grey
Tail - dun hackle fibers
Body - muskrat belly fur
Wings - mallard wing
Hackle - blue dun
Comments - Any body dubbing used for the Adams is useful for the Blue Dun.

Blue Quill

Blue Quill
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 12 - 18
Thread - black
Tail - dun hackle fibers
Body - stripped peacock quill
Wings - mallard wing
Hackle - blue dun
 
Blue Wing Olive

Blue QuillHook - standard dry fly sizes 12 - 20
Thread - olive
Tail - dark dun hackle fibers
Body - medium olive rabbit dubbing
Wings -grey duck quills
Hackle - dark dun hackle

 
Brown Drake

Blue QuillHook - standard dry fly sizes 6 - 16
Thread - brown
Tail - moose body hair
Rib - yellow floss
Body - olive rabbit fur
Wings - light elk hair
Hackle - dyed yellow tan hackle fibers (light ginger can be substituted)

 
Cricket - Letort

Adams
Hook - dry fly 2X sizes 12 - 16
Thread - black
Body - black rabbit fur
Wings - black goose quill
Overwing - black deer hair
Head - black deer hair spun and clipped
Legs - black pheasant barbules (optional)

Hendrickson

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 10 - 14
Thread - grey
Tail - light dun hackle fibers
Body - mixed muskrat and hare's ear
Wings - grey duck quills
Hackle - light dun and dark ginger mixed

Dark Cahill

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 102- 18
Thread - tan
Tail - dark ginger hackle fibers
Body - grey muskrat fur
Wings - lemon woodduck flank
Hackle - dark ginger

Dark Hendrickson

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 12- 18
Thread - grey
Tail - dark blue dun hackle fibers
Body - grey muskrat back fur
Wings - lemon woodduck flank
Hackle - dark dun

Eastern Green Drake

Adams
Hook - 2X dry fly sizes 8 - 12
Thread - cream
Tail - woodduck flank feathers-long
Body - very pale yellow rabbit dubbing tending towards a dark cream
Wings - mallard flank feather lightly barred
Hackle - cream badger

 
Elk Hair Caddis - Tan

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 12 - 18
Thread - tan
Body - hare's ear dubbing
Rib - fine gold wire
Wings - light elk hair
Hackle - brown palmered over body
Comments - Wire is tied in at hook bend hackle in front. Hackle is palmered back and secured with wire which is then ribbed forward. Most tyers today omit the rib and use a tan rabbit dubbing for the body. Other elk hair caddis patterns are similar except the body color and thread color are changed-e.g., olive, gray and brown elk hair caddis

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Fluttering Caddis - Gray

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 12 - 18
Thread - black
Body - muskrat back fur
Wings - gray hackle barbules or gray mink guard hairs
Hackle - medium dun
Comments - A number of fluttering caddis patterns can be tied by varying the above recipe-cream, tan, ginger, black, dark dun, etc.

Gray Quill

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 12 - 18
Thread - gray
Tail - med dun hackle fibers
Body - badger hackle stem stripped
Wings - lemon woodduck flank
Hackle - med dun
Comments - Grizzly hackle may be substituted for tail fibers and hackle.

Gray Fox

 
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 12 - 14
Thread - pale yellow
Tail - light ginger
Body - sandy red fox fur
Wings - mallard flanks
Hackle - light ginger and light grizzly mixed

 
Henryville Special

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 12 - 20
Thread - olive
Body - light olive fur or floss
Rib - grixxly hackle palmered over body-barbs slightly smaller than hook gap
Wings - woodduck flank under with mallard quill slips tied tent style
Hackle - dakr ginger
Head - brown thread wraps

 
Dave's Hopper

Adams
Hook - dry fly 2X sizes 4 - 12
Thread - gray
Tail - red deer hair and small loop of yellow yarn
Body - yellow wool yarn
hackle - brown palmered over body and clipped
Underwing - yellow calftail
Wing - mottled turkey lacquered
Legs - dyed yellow grizzly hackle stems clipped and knotted
Collar - matural light deer hair spun
Head - natural light deer hair spun and clipped

 
Humpy - Black

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 8 - 14
Thread - black
Tail - moose body hair
Shellback - deer hear
Body - black floss
Hackle - brown & grizzly

 
Isonychia (eye' sun i kee' ya) Bicolor

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 10 - 14
Thread - brown
Tail - dun hackle fibers
Body - chestnut brown dubbing with a hint of purple
Wings - mallard flanks
Hackle - light ginger and med. dun mixed

 
Light Cahill

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 10 - 20
Thread - pale yellow (or cream)
Tail - light ginger hackle fibers
Body - cream under fur of the red fox
Wings - lemon woodduck sides
Hackle - light ginger
Comments - Fortunately there are many sources of prepared light Cahill body dubbing as the supply of cream (red) fox fur is at an all time low. Mallard flanks dyed woodduck are suitable substitutes for the lemon woodduck wings.

 
March Brown (American)

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 10 - 14
Thread - tan
Tail - ginger hackle fibers
Body - sandy under fur from red fox
Wings - lemon woodduck
Hackle - grizzly and dark ginger (lt brown) mixed
Comments - There are many sandy fox subsitiutes on the market. Dark ginger (hackles) is the common color of genetic hackle termed brown - use as light a shade as possible. The darker barring and color of the natual woodduck better imitate the wings of this fly than do the dyed mallard substitutes that are commonly available.
 

Midge - Cream

Adams
Hook - dry fly sizes 18 - 28
Thread - white
Tail - cream hackle fibers
Body - cream rabbit dubbing
Hackle - cream hackle
Comments - black, ginger, gray and olive midges are tied the same except the colors are changed as appropriate.

 
Mosquito

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 12 - 20
Thread - black
Tail - grizzly hackle fibers
Body - light and dark moose mane wrapped in alternate color bands
Wings - grizzly hackle tips
Hackle - grizzly
Comments - This original mosquito pattern has stood the test of time.

 
Pale Evening Dun

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 14 - 20
Thread - cream
Tail - light dun hackle fibers
Body - pale yellow rabbit dubbing
Wings - light dun hackle tips
Hackle - medium dun

 
Pale Morning Dun

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 12 - 18
Thread - cream
Tail - pale dun
Body - cream rabbit dubbing
Wings - light dun hackle tips
Hackle - pale dun
 

Pink Lady

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 12 -16
Thread - cream
Tail - gold pheasant tippets
Rib - fine flat tinsel gold
Body - pink floss
Wings - grey duck quills
Hackle - golden badger

Quill Gordon

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly 12 - 16
Thread - black
Tail - dark dun hackle fibers
Body - stripped peacock quill (lacquered)
Rib - fine gold wire
Wings - woodduck
Hackle - dark blue dun
Comments - If the wire is wrapped in the direction opposite which the quill is wrapped, it will provide for a stronger tied fly.

Red Quill

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 12 - 16
Thread - grey
Tail - bronze dun hackle fibers
Body - coachman brown hackle stem stripped
Wings - lemon woodduck
Hackle - medium bronze dun
Comments - Bronze dun is nearly impossible to find. Look for a medium dun cape with as much brown tone as possible.
 

Renegade

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly 6 - 18
Thread - black
Tip - fine flat gold tinsel
Body - peacock herl
Rear Hackle - brown
Front Hackle - white
 

Royal Coachman

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly 10 - 16
Thread - black
Tail - gold pheasant tippets
Body - peacock herl and red floss
Wings - white duck quill
Hackle - chocolate brown

 
Rusty Spinner

Adams
Hook - 3X fine dry fly sizes 12 - 24
Thread - wtan
Tail - medium dun hackle fibers
Body - rusty brown rabbit dubbing
Wings - light gray poly yarn tied spent
Comment - for a really bright easy to see and attractive spinner, replace the poly yarn wings with pearl krystal flash.
 

Stimulator - orange

Adams
Hook - dry fly 2X sizes 6 - 8
Thread - fl. fire-orange
Tail - elk hair dyed black
Rib - fine gold wire and dark dun hackle
Body - orange dubbing (the shinier the better) or orange antron yarn
Wings - elk hair
Head - fire-orange dubbing (shiny - antron or similar material)
Hackle - grizzly wrapped over head

Stimulator - Olive

Adams
Hook - dry fly 2X sizes 6 - 16
Thread - fl. fire-orange
Tail - elk hair
Rib - brown hackle palmered and counter wound with fine gold wire
Body - olive dubbing (shiny - antron or similar material)
Wings - grey elk hair
Head - amber dubbing (shiny - antron or similar material)
Hackle - grizzly wrapped over head
 

Sulfur Dun

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 16 - 18
Thread - cream
Tail - light dun hackle fibers
Body - light yellow dubbing (sandy, tan)
Wings - cream hen hackle tips (optional - not shown)
Hackle - light dun

Western Green Drake

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 10 - 12
Thread - olive
Tail - moose body hair
Body - olive rabbit dubbing
Rib - light olive floss
Wings - moose body hair
Hackle - grizzly dyed olive
 

White Miller

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 10 - 26
Thread - white
Tail - white hackle fibers
Body - white dubbing or floss
Rib - fine silver wire or tinsel
Wings - white duck quills
Hackle - white hackle.
 

Wulff - Ausable

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 8 - 14
Thread - fire-orange
Tail - moose body hair
Body - bleached australian opossum (cream/rusty/tan dubbing)
Wings - white calf tail (or white calf body hair)
Hackle - brown and grizzly mixed (or cree)

Wulff - Blonde

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 4 - 14
Thread - black
Tail - light tan elk
Body - light tan rabbit fur
Wings - light tan elk
Hackle - light ginger
 

Wulff - Grey

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 8 - 14
Thread - black
Tail - natural brown bucktail
Body - muskrat (dark - back fur)
Wings - natural brown bucktail
Hackle - medium dun
 

Wulff - Royal

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 8 - 18
Thread - black
Tail - natural brown bucktail
Butt - peacock herl
Body - Red Floss
Shoulder - peacock herl
Wings - white calf tail (or white calf body hair)
Hackle - dark brown hackle
 

Wulff - White

Adams
Hook - standard dry fly sizes 6 - 16
Thread - white
Tail - white calf tail or body hair
Body - White rabbit dubbing
Wings - white calf tail (or white calf body hair)
Hackle - cream badger