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Halladay and his wife Rilla ran the old Mayfield Hotel. Mayfield, a small village near the upper Boardman River, was serviced by the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad. To help supplement his income from running the Mayfield Hotel, ... My first personal exposure to this famous fly came at the hands of my teen-age mentor, Max Donovan of Clio, Michigan. He felt the Adams fly tied on a No. 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 hook, was perhaps one of the steadiest producing flies used on ...