Quote Originally Posted by JohnScott View Post
I'm one of very few folks** who advocate for submerged leaders and tippets as superior to floating leaders and tippets, in most moving water situations, for the best possible drift of dry flies. Recently, I ran across a couple youtube videos where two different fellows expounded on their improved dry fly fishing results by adding a section of flouro tippet to their mono leaders to make their tippet less visible to the fishies, both quite excited about their discovery that resulted in noticeably more fishies in hand. One of those fellows was youtuber hooked4lifeca. His 6-14-2020 video is titled - Dry Fly Leader Hacks: a simple tip for significantly improving our dry fly fishing

John
... well known angler who has advocated for adding a length of fluoro tippet to his mono leader to eliminate light reflection on the surface when fishing dry flies.

Kelly Galloup.

In an eight year old video on YouTube, on midge fishing in the winter, Galloup touches on this technique while using a very small midge dry fly fishing the Madison River. He does specify that for the fishing he is demonstrating, he tries to land the fly close to the fish he is targetting so he has a very short drift and the fluoro tippet does not sink the fly.

Galloup's video is an enjoyable way to spend a few minutes in early winter, and includes a number of interesting observations about winter fishing generally, and midge fishing in particular.

John