I had a thought (it's a miracle).
I like to use dry flies as indicators.
Itty bitty nymphs can be 'indicated' with a
#16 Royal Wulff. Heavier nymphs need a bigger,
better floating (cant' remember how to spel
bouant) dry fly. I like dryfly indicators because it's
more fun to watch an indicator that might catch
a fish, than it is to watch one that cannot
and will not.

But the one complaint I hear over and over again
is that a grasshopper followed by a beadhead
is "too hard to cast" ...... and that you
can't attach a hopper close to the butt of the leader.

But that argument misses several crucial points.

It's only hard to cast a hopper
dropper if you attach the hopper to the end of
a long light leader. If you attach the hopper at
4 - 6 feet from the butt, to 15lb test, then
you can turn it over in a hurricane. And if you
think the 15lb leader that attaches to the
hopper ruins it's chances of catching a fish,
you be wrong. Everybody fishes the way they
like to fish. But it is important to have all
the important information.