How do you attach your dropper ? Do you tie your tippet to the bend of the hook on your top fly ? Is there a better way ? Any instuctions would be much appricated
How do you attach your dropper ? Do you tie your tippet to the bend of the hook on your top fly ? Is there a better way ? Any instuctions would be much appricated
Fiddled with all of the rest and end up just tying to the bend. I catch a lot of fish, so it seems to work for me. Just a simple clinch knot like you used for the flies. I usually don't drop farther than 18" for nymphs although I'll drop as much as 30" if using a dry fly with a dry dropper. I do get technical with the dropper fly and how I attach it to the dropper tippet. I use a Duncan loop for most applications especially when the dropper is smaller than size #16.
Kelly
Tight Lines,
Kelly.
"There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home."
Roderick Haig-Brown, "Fisherman's Spring"
good info on that westfly link. i like to tie my droppers to the hook eye of the first fly. improved clinch and about 18"-24" of tippet and you're good to go. i tie to the bend of the fly as well, but for some reason this tangles more for me than going through the eye.
sagellbean -
I tie the tippet for the trailing fly to the bend of the leading fly hook. Use a clinch knot. This works well for everything from tandems of big weighted stoneflies under an indicator to trailing a second dry fly behind another one.
Spacing kind of depends on the situation. Probably up to a couple feet with a tandem of dries. Down to maybe 6" when trailing an emerger below a dry. In some situations some separation seems to work best ( and is necessary when fishing a nymph deep under a dry ) but in others you want the fishy to see the trailing fly if it passes on the lead fly.
Tried tying the tippet for the trailing fly to eye of the hook a few times and didn't care for that set up. Also, fishing smaller flies, it can be kind of difficult to get two pieces of tippet through the eye, especially if you crowd the eye of the hook while tying flies !! I've read about a bunch of other methods used by folks fishing several wets, but haven't fished that kind of rig so don't have any impressions on those methods.
John
The fish are always right.
check out some of the dropper fly rigging images here
http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...wi&safe=active
Most of the time I'll just tie the dropper off the bend of the first hook. If the dropper is affecting the drift of the top fly too much and I'm not just using the top fly as an indicator, then I will leave a long tag on my tippet knot and tie the dry to that. Tangles up a bit more often, but allows for a more natural drift on both flies, and makes it easier to change the dry without having to redo the whole setup.
If it swims and eats, it'll eat a fly.
what is the duncan loop?
Hi,
I just leave the tag end of the upper (closer to the rod) piece of mono when tying a triple surgeon/blood knot in the leader and tie onto that. I'll often (where allowed) fish 3 flies, with two droppers and one at the point (end).
- Jeff