... question for those who use them.

I'm fortunate to fish a freestone stream which is virtually a "cutthroat only" fishery. Those dummies are always ready to go up on top and take a dry, at least starting shortly after the creek thaws out in early spring. From early April through mid November it is a succession of skwalas, salmonflies, golden stones, hoppers, October caddis and a few smaller stoneflies, caddis, midges, and mayflies.

From shortly after the creek becomes fishable until it freezes over ( the creek, that is ), there is no reason to fish a nymph, let alone a dropper off a hopper or any other dry. So once in a while when I'm reading some thread or other here on the BB, the question comes to me -

Does it ever occur to you that if you did not use the dropper that the fishies might actually come up and take your hopper ??

John