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Adams

HOOK - Tiemco (5210 or 100), sizes 10-20. 
THREAD - Gray or black 6/0, prewaxed. 
WING - Grizzly hackle tips, tied upright and divided.  
TAIL - Grizzly and brown hackle mixed. 
HACKLE - Brown and grizzly hackle. 
BODY - Muskrat fur with guard hairs removed or Adams Gray Superfine dubbing. 

Blue Quill

HOOK - Tiemco (5210 or 100), sizes 12-20. 
THREAD - Gray 6/0, prewaxed. 
WING - Duck quill, tied upright and divided. 
TAIL - Dark blue dun hackle fibers. 
HACKLE - Dark blue dun hackle. 
BODY - Stripped peacock quill. 

Elk Hair Caddis

HOOK - Tiemco 100, sizes 8-20. 
THREAD - Tan, black, or brown 6/0, prewaxed. 
RIB - Fine copper or gold wire. 
BODY - Brown dubbing. 
HACKLE - Brown Metz hackle, palmered through the body. 
WING - Tan elk hair, tied downwing style. 
HEAD - Trim front ends of elk hair wing. 

Light Cahill

HOOK - Tiemco (5210 or 100), sizes 12-18.  
THREAD - Cream 6/0, prewaxed.  
WING - Woodduck flank or imitation woodduck, tied upright and divided.  
TAIL - Cream hackle fibers.  
HACKLE - Cream hackles.  
BODY - Cream dubbing. 

Parachute Adams

HOOK - Tiemco (5210 or 100), sizes 12-20.  
THREAD - Gray 6/0, prewaxed.  
POST - White calf tail or calf body hair.  
TAIL - Brown and grizzly hackle fibers, mixed.  
HACKLE - Brown and grizzly hackle, tied parachute style.  
BODY - Muskrat dubbing fur. 

Royal Wulff

HOOK - Tiemco (9300 or 100), sizes 10-18.  
THREAD - Black 6/0, prewaxed.  
WING - White calf body or calf tail hair, tied upright and divided.  
TAIL - Elk hair.  
HACKLE - Medium brown to dark brown hackle.  
BODY - Peacock herl with red band of floss between butt and shoulder.  
NOTES - The tail may also be tied using moose body hair or calf tail fibers.



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