Sandy Pittendrigh wrote:

2.
I'll guess ungats is the also the number of fish you've
caught on Fish Pimps over the years. Hopper indicators
don't work well in early April. But they do work.
If it's the visual thing you like, you can make
a hopper indicator with a hot lime or pink wing.
If it floats well, and there is a wet fly behind it,
then it's an indicator. If that indicator has a hook
in it, ungats is not the number of fish you will catch
on the indicator.

I don't have anything *against* using a fly as an indicator, but I
usually prefer an fish-pimp-type indicator. The reason is the same that
I don't much like yarn indicators -- it's hard to change the depth.

Whenever I'm fishing hopper/dropper rigs I feel like I'm primarily
fishing the hopper, and that the nymph is an extra.

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