Dry and dropper question

Lazarus Cooke wrote:

Mike wrote:

Tie your dropper on, and mount your dry fly using a loop. Just form a
loop in the line, thread the loop through the eye of the hook, and
over the fly. Pull slowly tight.

If you want to adjust the depth, just loosen the loop and slide the
dry fly along the leader.

This wont work with very small dries, but those would be pointless on
a dry and dropper rig anyway.


Wow! That is such an elegant solution. And I've never heard of it
anywhere before.


I second that. Very nice solution.

Tim Lysyk

On Fri, 02 May 2008 00:48:44 GMT, Tim Lysyk wrote:

Lazarus Cooke wrote:

Mike wrote:

Tie your dropper on, and mount your dry fly using a loop. Just form a
loop in the line, thread the loop through the eye of the hook, and
over the fly. Pull slowly tight.

If you want to adjust the depth, just loosen the loop and slide the
dry fly along the leader.

This wont work with very small dries, but those would be pointless on
a dry and dropper rig anyway.


Wow! That is such an elegant solution. And I've never heard of it
anywhere before.

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


I second that. Very nice solution.

Tim Lysyk

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.

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

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

MC

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

On May 2, 7:05 pm, wrote:

Now go back to tossing flies,
Dickie



Sure, why not? You can just carry on tossing off.............

MC