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Dry fly with a dropper
Does anyone else find that they "snag" fish on the dropper?
I find I can "see" the strike more often with a dry fly as my strike indicator, but I also find that I occasionally snag fish using this system.
This only seems to happen often when I'm using my dry fly and dropper
This bothers me.
What am I doing wrong?
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Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. Duke Snider
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This happens to me pretty regularly, also. The fish will come up and either hit the dry fly or loudly reject it. If (or when) you set the hook and miss, the tippet below the dry will catch on a fin or stick to the slime on the fish and slide up and foul hook him with the bottom fly. I do not know the solution except the obvious: never miss the dry fly hook set. Yeah, right.
Joe
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Happened to me alot until I was told to lenghthen the dropper to 18 to 24 inches below the dry.That helped a lot.But in skinny water the dropper snags more for me.
Mike
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I use this fishing some of the deeper pools on the Niangua River.
I can't say that I measure my dropper. But I would have guessed it to be at least 18".
I appreciate the hint. I'll try to be sure I have at least that much.
Thanks
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Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. Duke Snider
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Also during the release be aware of where the dropper is so that it doesn't snag the fish then. Or in the worse case, watch out that during the release the squirming fish doesn't cause the dropper to imbed itself into YOU.
Mark
PS> It really hurts when the STILL HOOKED fish squirms out of your hand and causes the dropper to imbed itself into YOU.
You should not ask how I came upon all this knowledge.
[This message has been edited by Marco (edited 25 August 2005).]
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I don't snag the fish while releasing it. I get a strike, land the fish, and find that I have foul hooked it. Obviously, I have pretty good idea, I've either caught a big'en or foul hooked a fish.
Maybe because it got smacked with the dropper while investigating the dry.
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Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. Duke Snider
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McManus;
My comment was an " aside" and not an answer to your problem. I thought you stated your question clearly as I did my comment.
Mark
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I'd rather be in Wyoming!
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I just read an article on that topic. The only solution per them was to lengthen the dropper to about 18 to 24" as previously mentioned. This was not a guarantee that you would not keep foul hooking fish but it did cut down on the problem.
Seege
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I have read this thread with some interest but I have never fished a dropper. Could someone point me a an article or instruction on how to use a dropper? I get that one fishes a wet fly and a dry fly on the same leader but have never seen it done.
Clint
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There's a decent article about this in American Angler this month.
Right now this technique is my bread and butter. With a decent Isonychia hatch going, I fish a Parachute Adams or a Royal Wulff and an unweighted Isonychia nymph underneath it.
You can use a highly visible and buoyant dry fly as indicator to fairly invisible small dry flies like size 22 or smaller rusty spinners that float flush in the surface film.