I have been trying to explain my maddness for the “Y” connection so I broke down and tried to draw what I do. This works as well for me with a dry and nymph and doesn’t really tangle except on windy day’s but then , what doesn’t.
she who dies with the most toy’s wins.
Hey FG
Cool Rig. I am courious about the distance between the top and bottom flys. I am sure you are being truthful that it doesnt tangle but it really looks like it would. Then again I always say that about my buddy who ties his dropper off the eye of the top fly too and he doesnt get tangled either.
Born to fish forced to work.
Alan
Hey Fly Goddess,
There you go again showing off those Secret Henry’s Lake flies. Shhhhhhhhhhh!
You don’t want everyone going there and catching all those pigs, do you? LOL!
This is a very good rig, I often use the same rig but with 2 droppers for a total of 3 flys and even then unless I do something silly (and I often do) they do not tangle up.
All the best.
Mike.
Mike Thomas
I got to stick with the duo, around here two fly max.
I can’t help it about the choice of flies, they work everywhere, but they do slay on the big “H”
she who dies with the most toy’s wins.
[This message has been edited by Fly Goddess (edited 05 April 2006).]
That looks pretty similar to what I used to do, except the flies were farther apart. (Don’t know if that drawing is to scale) I think I’ll try going back to doing that this year instead of tying to the eye or bend of the top fly.
Jay
Hi,
On my last outing, I tied up a team of 3 wet-flys using the first method. Caught one rainbow on the “bob” fly (a Doc Spratly, size 12) and one on the point (a Parmacheene Belle). Neither were large (about a pound) but I was pleased that my first time trying 3 flys worked fairly well. Oh, both caught individually, not a double-header situation.
No tangles of the flys. I found, however, that one should avoid false casting at all costs. Also, cast slow to open up your loop.
One word of caution though. As I was de-hooking the second fish to release it, it shook and flipped one of the other hooks onto my thumb. Then, of course, squirmed free, and started swimming away! This set the hook part way into my thumb. So, now, waist deep, with rod in one hand, hook in the other, a fish attached to the line, I’m wondering if perhaps this 3-fly team thing is all a bit of a mistake? Nah … I was able to release the fish (although he ended up re-hooking itself in the tail on one of the other hooks, so I had to release him twice! After all that, he still swam away with vim and vigor). The slow casting, the long drift down stream, the long retreive back for the repeat is such peaceful way to spend time on the river. I just have to remember to mash down the barbs!
When I was much younger and living on the east coast, we use to tye two bucktail stramer flies like the loop to loop diagram and fish for crappie. It looked like two minnows swimming together like they often do. It would always catch crappie, somethimes two at a time.
Nice rig!! Thanks for the memories!
Dr Bob
I use system #2 in the salt.
Catching two at a time is a good way to put a bend in the rod when the fish are small.
When the fish are not so small it can be alot of fun too.
“The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life”
I forgot to mention that. Using this set up I have hooked two fish at the same time on a lot of occassions. I used two Adams on a small pond in the mountains and caught two at the same time. That was fun on dries and seeing them both hit.
she who dies with the most toy’s wins.
Hi,
I probably should know this, but I don’t. How do you attach the two loops in the Loop to Loop connection?
JeffHamm Hi,
I probably should know this, but I don’t. How do you attach the two loops in the Loop to Loop connection?
Do it before you attach the flies just like you would a single leader with a loop.
Is that what you ment?
Hi,
Ahhh, sorry. The diagram with the flies already attached was throwing me, and I was trying to figure out how it could be done without passing the flies through the loop, but I couldn’t figure out how to get the big flies through the loop either!