JDOE wrote:
In article ,
Dave LaCourse wrote:


l
l
l\
l \O
l
l
6
l
l
lF
Where l\ is your surgeon knot
O is your first fly
6 is your weighted fly
F is your third fly tied to the bend of 6


wont your first fly wrap around the main line?



Yes. It will twist around the leader to some extent but usually not so
much so the fly gets snagged. I tie flies off a tippet tag like that
when I'm fishing soft hackles. The tag should be of the heavier line. I
use a heavy fly at the very end to "anchor" the rig and by lifting the
line off the water, you can make the upper fly(s) bouce along the
surface. Sometimes this is VERY effective, often it doesn't work, but if
it does it's very exciting fishing. You get hard slashing, splashy hits
as the fish throw themselves at your fly. You get alot of missed strikes
but you can sometimes get the fish to hit again with a dead drift
through the area.

When I fish nymphs, I tie the second fly off the bend of the hook. Bruce
and some others tie them off the eye.

Willi