"Salmo Bytes" wrote

But the better a foam hopper floats, the heavier
the nymph you can drag off the rear end of the hopper.



I've seen the advice to fish a "hopper and dropper" and wondered about that.
I don't nymph a lot but I've found that when I use a "dry and dropper" that
I nearly always catch only on the nymph. It has been my impression that
this was less because the nymph is more attractive than because the dry
suffers badly, in presentation, because it's movement is impeded by the
nymph ( and as you say from mending for the nymphs sake )

Which leads to a ??? Do you catch many fish on the HopperHalf of
Hopper&Dropper? ... if not, why not just use a yarn indicator and focus on
nymphing? What is the gain? certainly a hank of yarn takes less tying time
than a HopperG