On Fri, 2 May 2008 09:22:17 -0700 (PDT), Mike
wrote:

On May 2, 4:58 pm, wrote:

It's not a new idea and there's a reason many folks who FF only have not
heard of it before...

Here's a hint - if it were such a fantastic idea, you could use it in
all fishing situations to hold the fly to the leader, even without a
dropper below.

Simply try it with any hook and mono, and you should see why it ain't
all that great for FFing.

HTH,
R

It is purely to solve the problem described in the original question.
It would be quite pointless using such a rig to attach flies like this
as a matter of course.

If the fly was attached properly using this supposedly-new loop system,
the presence or absence of a dropper - hint - on the tag end - would not
matter. What you are making with this "system" is a bass-akwards
quasi-trotline with materials and a fishing style wholly unsuited to
such. If one is determined to use loops, there are methods - snell the
drop and use a loop-through in the leader through the loop in the snell
of the drop...no, I don't recommend it overall, but...

Nobody with any sense would even consider it................

If considering it without a dropper is showing a lack of sense, doing it
with one shows even less sense because, for one, something taking the
dropper in such a rig will make the "system" all the more iffy.

Again, all anyone has to do is rig this up with any line and hook (no
need for the dropper) to see the problems.

Ah, I see.......... never mind.

If you saw, you'd have never suggested this supposedly-new "idea"....

Now go back to tossing flies,
Dickie


MC