I've been rigging my droppers by tying a line to the hook of my first fly. I never get a strike on the lead fly only the trailing one. Been thinking of using a tippet ring. What do you all do? This is for stillwater...
Tippet Rings, Droppers
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Pink Nighty
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I find that I get quite a few less hits on my dry when I'm running a dropper off of it as opposed to just the dry. I usually run a dry/popper on a surgeon's loop, then a dropper attached to the hook bend with an improved clinch to a nymph, also attached with a loop.
I'm not sure if the nymph is just that much more appetizing as I still hook a ton of fish on the dropper, but the dry becomes more of an indicator most of the time.
Anybody running a different setup that has overcome this issue?
I'm not sure if the nymph is just that much more appetizing as I still hook a ton of fish on the dropper, but the dry becomes more of an indicator most of the time.
Anybody running a different setup that has overcome this issue?
OnTheFlyWitHKy
Smolt
You could try tying the dropper through the eye of your top fly, a lot of times when the dropper is tied to the hook it acts like a rudder and can make the top fly drift unnaturally or act unnaturally in the water due to the force acting on the back of the fly (hook bend)
Tying your dropper to the eye of your indicator fly could solve the issue.
Tying your dropper to the eye of your indicator fly could solve the issue.
I blood knot my tippet and then leave one of the ends with about 6 inches untrimmed. That's what I tie my dropper fly to.
I use this simple leader for most of my stillwater fishing. 3 feet of 8 lb Maxima Floro, 3 feet of 6 lb Maxima floro, 3 feet of 4 lb Maxima Floro. I connect the leaders using a blood knot and attach my dropper fly to the untrimmed 6 lb floro 3 feet from the leader end.
I use this simple leader for most of my stillwater fishing. 3 feet of 8 lb Maxima Floro, 3 feet of 6 lb Maxima floro, 3 feet of 4 lb Maxima Floro. I connect the leaders using a blood knot and attach my dropper fly to the untrimmed 6 lb floro 3 feet from the leader end.
Mines similar to @Dave Westburg 's except I use surgeons knots and plain UG. When the tag get too short add a new one above the knot by uni-knotting on a new 6"-8" dropper.
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Maybe something like this?
OnTheFlyWitHKy
Smolt
This might damn near be the funniest looking thing I've ever seen, and I do look in the mirror every morning.
Tippet rings are awesome. Fished a double nymph rig the other day, all day, without a tangle. Also, all of my sunken fly leaders consist of a butt section, tied to a tippet ring, tied to a tippet ring. No tapering. On most double fly rigs, I use 2 tippet rings. Butt to tippet, then tippet to dropper send lead tippet. Again, no tangles and excellent turn over.
2nd Tom's use of the tag end of the surgeons for multi fly nymphing. It's my opinion that tying a second fly to the shank will put off some of the fish when they feel the line on the strike, especially if the bottom fly is a heavy balanced leech or a similar weighty offering. If I'm going euro, I'll run a tip ring off the sighter.
sal_the_salmon
Steelhead
i prefer to tie my dropper to the eye of the first hook, using a standard clinch knot and a tippet one size smaller.