I prefer the in-line method, just the way I started fishing. Old habits die hard sometimes. Many of my guides use this method as well but some tie off at the eye of the first fly and others tie off on a tag type, much the same as the way Davy ties off his "Cast of Flies" style. They all work and I personally have not seen where one style outdoes the other, I catch fish on all of the methods. Now that I have been practicing Davy's Knot, which uses far less tippet to tie, I may start using his method of rigging flies. I always go one size lighter on any trailing fly.

Larry ---sagefisher---