What is your favorite Parachute fly?

[DinoC]

What is your favorite Parachute fly? Recipes and tying instructions may be added.
Thank you for contributing.
DinoC

[Hellmtflies]

My better half would say a #16 Olive Parachute. For me it would be a #14 Parachute Adams.

[Eric Peper]

Bonnie Harrop's Paraspinner . . . without question. This is a "design" rather than a pattern, with the design being adapted for patterns to match the size and color of natural insects.

EP

[Ray Hencken]

Size 8 or 10 Parachute Hopper on western rivers. Large browns and rainbows love them. Sometimes they will sip them and other times they will explode out of the water while taking them.

[DaveNJ]

Not really a pattern, but I like dubbing the thorax with some spiky hair and brushing it out so it looks like legs are breaking the film.

[bluesjay]

Hi Guys, Klinkhammer.....

Jay Edwards

[Eperous]

A #14 Mahogany Dun when Catskill Isonychia are about... it's not a "go-to" pattern, nor even at the top of my list, BUT when I need one, it rarely disappoints...

Truth is, I don't fish parachutes that often... this and a BWO....

Ed

[Eperous]

Bonnie Harrop's Paraspinner . . . without question. This is a "design" rather than a pattern, with the design being adapted for patterns to match the size and color of natural insects.

EP

Of course a Harrop, how could one go wrong with anything of theirs?

Ed

[PYochim]

I tie a parachute with a gray body, one brown hackle and a z-Lon trailing shuck. I have taken a lot of fish on it.

[bassman]

Not that I get to use it very often but I like tying the Purple Haze. Lots of people on board have said it is a good change up for the Adams parachute.

[PT48]

I like many parachute flies. My two favourites are the parachute royal coachman and the parachute brown dun and spinner, with cdc or orange posts, dun with a straight tail in 16 and spinner with a splayed tail in 18, they are deadly in the Mataura River catchment of NZ. The coachman is my go-to fly on Tasmanian rivers and when I used it in Montana, it worked very well on rivers such as the Ruby and assorted back-country creeks (I left one up a tree on the Swan for posterity or perhaps it was just careless casting). Who could also not forget the PA which caught me many fish on the Madison.

[mer]

Klinkhammer is good.
A generic "peacock herl body, pink post, medium dun or grizzly hackle and tail or zlong tail" size 14 & 16 works a lot of times and the pink post is easier for me to see on the water.

[skd75]

While not a classic parachute, one of my favorites is the Mercer’s Missing Link, it can be tied in various colors. Also, can’t go wrong with a Parachute Adams.

[waltryan1]

Not really a parachute but it fishes like one: Bob Wyatt's deer hair emerger.

[Brooks]

another vote for Bonnie’s Spinner. It is the fly I almost always tie on at the “Ranch” parking lot before I start walking. And quite often it stays on all day. That and later sometimes a black ant tied very similarly (without the coq d’leon tail fibers of course)

[paramount]

My better half would say a #16 Olive Parachute. For me it would be a #14 Parachute Adams.

Mine would be the same down to a size 18.

Bruce

[redietz]

Black ant. Ants are the only parachutes that I regularly tie or fish.

[chugbug]

My favorite parachute is whatever they're refusing on top at the last minute as a dry fly...

[Barleywine]

Chuck Stranahan's Brindle 'Chute in size 14.

A few years back, I visited Mr. Stranahan's fly shop in Hamilton, MT and showed him my attempts at tying his fly that were based on nothing more than a few Internet photos. He graciously spent more than an hour talking about fishing in the area and showing me the proper way to tie the pattern, complete with samples of the dubbing mix, hackle, and correct deer hair for the tail. He seems like a true gentlemen who is very generous with his time. The Brindle 'Chute is an excellent searching pattern that worked like a charm for me in Montana, and it has been good at pulling up fish in the Delaware River system between hatches.

[flyfishingpastor]

Easily a Para-Adam for me. BUT, I also like a Para-Pheasant Tail or Hare's Ear.

Pat