You can cut the second hook off, stager them or I just put them side by side…need to squish the barbs yet.
You can do this with any nymph even streamers. Great for deep nymphing.
why? please explain. more info
Goddess
Do I understand the picture correctly, heavy weighted fly / shot below the pictured fly ? If so, it looks like a winner to me, but you might run in to leagle issues in places that don’t allow wieght below the hook.
I like that idea! I can see making use of that when ice-fishing, too! 
It would look better if I had cut the bend off the other hook.
51BC, you are correct in that there is heavy weight on the end…so maybe a Czech Nymph?!
Fish Dave, that is kind of what got me thinking about this fly, but it does work on soft water too.
Calm days it will sit nice and Horizontal, but if there are waves, it gets a really nice movement while you sit in one spot.
Definitely more advantageous on stillwater I think.
Hi Fly Goddess: I’m confused. What am I looking at in the photo. Did I miss a previous post of yours?
Bruce
Fly Goddess,
You going to tie those at the East Idaho Fly Expo in April?
Larry —sagefisher—
So…as I understand it…this is a scaled-down, trout version of a bass spin fisherman’s drop-shot rig for soft plastics?
Cold,
Some of my guides in Montana rig up my nymphing rod with a weight on the bottom and above that are the two nymphs attached to short tippets that are tied off on the leader.
I prefer to have my lead (if needed) above the top nymph, but I never argue with a guide. I figure he knows the river and I will fish it the way he suggests.
Like Fly Goddess said, this fly she tied would be great in a lake or very slow moving soft water since it is horizontal. I may have to give it a try on some of my lake flies that I don’t actively work in the water.
Larry —sagefisher—
I’m wondering if flipping the fly over would increase hook-ups? Since the fly rigged this way is less likely to roll around in the fishes mouth, and since you would be pulling up to set the hook, I’m thinking the hook would make better contact with the fish’s upper jaw if it was flipped over so the hook-point was up?
I dunno…maybe the fulcrum action would drive the hook point down into the lower jaw if fished as shown?
I think you have a great point…easy enough to do.
Bruce, I am sorry I don’t know what you are asking.
I think I will do these at the show this year. I will have a few rigged up and ready to tie.
As far as the Bass thing, I have always fly fished and so, I don’t know about the lures and such.
I didn’t invent this, I saw it in a magazine many years ago. I am also sorry I don’t remember who did come up with this.
Very creative idea. A standard drop shot rig may be simpler and will work with a standard fly design. With a standard drop shot rig the hook is secured to the leader with a palomar knot. the tag end is the put back through the hook eye from the “top” and out the “bottom”. Weight is attached to the end of the leader. When the line is under some tension the hook stand straight out from the leader. A google search will turn up diagrams. For nymphing, the weight can be split shot attached to the end of the leader. If not crimped too tightly, the will pull off if they get hung up and hopefully the fly will be saved. When dropshotting, the depth is controlled by the distance between the lure (or fly) and the weight at the end of the leader. By the way, there are commercially made special drop shot hooks with an extra eye on an outrigger like Fly Goddess’s design though I do not personally know anyone who uses them.
We use drop shot rigs in fresh and saltwater. I haven’t tried the idea with flies yet. However similar rigs of multiple unweighted feather lures (almost like flies), sometimes referred to as gangions, with a heavy weight at the bottom have been used for ages here to make bait (catch sardines, anchovies, squid, etc) for live bait. Friends that worked on the sportfishing boats as deckhands in their younger years can assemble a three or four hook rig in a minute or two.
tailingloop,
That’s what I was thinking. Not to say the fly isn’t really cool (it is) or work perfectly for that sort of setup (it will), just that on the occasions that I fish this way, I use the palomar knot and the hook stands out just fine. If you fish that setup regularly, the specialized flies would be perfect, but for me, as often as I fish it, I’m better off using regular flies and the palomar knot.
Still, its always good to see creativity. 