Dry and dropper question

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 Fri, 2 May 2008 09:12:29 -0700 (PDT), Mike
wrote:

If you want to lock the loop in position more firmly, then take one
side of the loop once or twice around the hook shank, before feeding
the loop over it.

If you get a big fish on the dry, this will kink your line more as it
slides down the leader, but this did not cause me any particular
problems. The biggest problem I had was actually getting the loop
through the eye of some smaller dry flies, which is why I prefer the
leader ring setup as well.

You can also lock the leader ring more firmly using a similar
technique, just thread the loop twice through the ring, before
threading your fly and dropper through the loop. This will still slide
easily if you loosen the loop, but will take a lot more force to slide
it if the loop is tight. Indeed, if you feed it through three times
for instance, it probably wont slide at all unless you loosen the
loop.

I broke wet 6 lb mono trying variations of this, without the ring
sliding at all of course.

However, if I was getting a lot of fish on the dry fly, I would take
the nymph off, and fish a pure dry fly set up anyway.

Um, so let's recap, shall we...this FAB-U-LOUS NEW!!! idea of yours is
perfect, except for those fishing for, well, anything and using, well,
anything, while doing, well, anything, under, well, any conditions...but
you've had, well, not really much success with it...yeah, boy, sounds
like a real winner you got there...

Sheesh,
Dickie

TL
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