Dries for droppers

I had to give up the use of strike indicators. The social pressure was
just too hard. (I must admit that I also found it a bit suspicious
myself.)

Since I still want to catch fish with nymphs from longer distances,
I'm thinking of starting to use droppers with dries (which is much
more acceptable). However, I'm not familiar with many good dry fly
patterns for this purpose. That is, those dries that float extremely
well. The only one I know is Goddard caddis.

What kind of patterns do you use?

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Jarmo wrote:snipI'm not familiar with many good dry fly
patterns for this purpose. That is, those dries that float extremely
well. The only one I know is Goddard caddis.

What kind of patterns do you use?

This is a perfect use for those Psychedelic Spiders or any other color(such as
yellow) for easy visability. Foam works great for a tying material for this
purpose and once in a while they catch a fish also. I guess foam beatles would
work as well, but would be harder to see. You can see pictures on Stan's
flyswap pages.

A friend picked up a dozen of the yellow foam spiders from our club auction
last year and brought me a few pictures of some blue trout he caught on them in
Scotland last year. He started using them that way when the trout would not
leave his strike indicater along and he switched to those yellow foam spiders.

Big Dale

Big Dale

What kind of patterns do you use?

Dale This is a perfect use for those Psychedelic Spiders or any other
Dale color(such as yellow) for easy visability. ... You can see
Dale pictures on Stan's flyswap pages.

Found the picture - that's psychedelic, yes indeed. What's the recipe?

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Jarmo asked:Found the picture - that's psychedelic, yes indeed. What's the
recipe?


The Psychedelic spider uses multicolored foam, tinsel chenille for the body
material and multicolored rubber legs. It is just a gurgler rip-off but in
colors that look cool when you leave them in the trees. They are very easy to
see on the water. I start with a size 10 dry fly or bass bug hook. None of this
is written in stone. Tye them and have fun with them.

Big Dale

Tim wrote:I use dales psychedelics(since he tied me a bunch). The fish seem to
just
love them, I've caught tons of bass and sunfish with them down on the
Lampassas.

I was hopeing you would find a way to put them to use after work. I watched a
thing about Stubbs Barbeque in Austin on TV last night. Sure was tempted to
drive down for a couple of days.

Big Dale

Big Dale

Big Dale wrote:

Tim wrote:I use dales psychedelics(since he tied me a bunch). The fish seem to
just

love them, I've caught tons of bass and sunfish with them down on the
Lampassas.


I was hopeing you would find a way to put them to use after work. I watched a
thing about Stubbs Barbeque in Austin on TV last night. Sure was tempted to
drive down for a couple of days.

well hell, small world...i just ate some chicken i dolloped up with
stubbs bbq sauce...

jeff


Big Dale

Big Dale wrote:

Tim wrote:I use dales psychedelics(since he tied me a bunch). The fish seem to
just

love them, I've caught tons of bass and sunfish with them down on the
Lampassas.


I was hopeing you would find a way to put them to use after work. I watched a
thing about Stubbs Barbeque in Austin on TV last night. Sure was tempted to
drive down for a couple of days.

well hell, small world...i just ate some chicken i dolloped up with
stubbs bbq sauce...

jeff


Big Dale

On 7/26/04 8:54 AM, in article ,
"Big Dale" wrote:

Jarmo asked:Found the picture - that's psychedelic, yes indeed. What's the
recipe?


The Psychedelic spider uses multicolored foam, tinsel chenille for the body
material and multicolored rubber legs. It is just a gurgler rip-off but in
colors that look cool when you leave them in the trees. They are very easy to
see on the water. I start with a size 10 dry fly or bass bug hook. None of
this
is written in stone. Tye them and have fun with them.

Big Dale

I use dales psychedelics(since he tied me a bunch). The fish seem to just
love them, I've caught tons of bass and sunfish with them down on the
Lampassas.

Tim Apple

Tim wrote:I use dales psychedelics(since he tied me a bunch). The fish seem to
just
love them, I've caught tons of bass and sunfish with them down on the
Lampassas.

I was hopeing you would find a way to put them to use after work. I watched a
thing about Stubbs Barbeque in Austin on TV last night. Sure was tempted to
drive down for a couple of days.

Big Dale

Big Dale

Jarmo asked:Found the picture - that's psychedelic, yes indeed. What's the
recipe?


The Psychedelic spider uses multicolored foam, tinsel chenille for the body
material and multicolored rubber legs. It is just a gurgler rip-off but in
colors that look cool when you leave them in the trees. They are very easy to
see on the water. I start with a size 10 dry fly or bass bug hook. None of this
is written in stone. Tye them and have fun with them.

Big Dale