PArachute Adams and a Sow Bug!?!?
Is the best combo for a Dry Dropper Rig in September on the Mighty Mo in central Montana…a Parachute Adams and. Sow Bug dropper?
It may be.
We love September as it gets us out of the summer session foreshadowing fall greatness. Truly. Gone are the super hot and stale, and this year smoke filled skies. Gone are the super crowds of May and June. Gone are the masses.
We welcome the shorter days, the cooler air temps and the fall fever that envelopes the river canyon.
The weed value in the river currently is quite low. Yes, they are annoying, but this autumn we see the weed volume decreasing and the fun quotient increasing.
And we get back to the Dry Dropper rig of this authors choice.
An Adams is one of the best trout food flies of all time. It is SOL’s favorite searching pattern. Certainly in the fall. An Adams can replicate any mayfly, many caddis, and the trout are attracted to it daily. The Adams is one of the greatest patterns of all time.
I like the larger top fly. A 12 or 14 is excellent. Tie off an unweighted Sow Bug of your choice and get after it. 2 Film Flies creating trout feeding ops.
Some like a bit of a bead on the Sow Bug. I’m cool with that. Get it a bit below the surface. A good rig how ever you rig it.
I like a long dropper in this period of my fly fishing life. 18” to 30”. Let that sow swim around out there and make friends.
Puprle Haze is cool too. Any parachute that you seem to like. Any parachute that is in your box waiting to get out and in the trout water. Waiting and eager to perform.
But, the Adams is KING. Truly.
Dry Dropper is in your future this fall. If you want to break free of the bobber, try this common and terrific and successful technique here or abroad this fall.
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