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Dry and dropper question
Hello gentlemen. I have been absent from this group for a while because of real-life issues (too much work). Fortunately the summer holiday is approaching - hence a fly-fishing related question came to my mind. Is there a way to make a dry and dropper rig so that adjusting the depth of the dropper could be done easily? I do not want to use an adjustable indicator or any other weird gadget, just two flies and tippet / leader material. -- Jarmo Hurri Commercial email countermeasures included in header email address. Remove all garbage from header email address when replying, or just use . |
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Dry and dropper question
On 2008-05-01, Jarmo Hurri wrote:
Is there a way to make a dry and dropper rig so that adjusting the depth of the dropper could be done easily? I do not want to use an adjustable indicator or any other weird gadget, just two flies and tippet / leader material. I haven't tried it yet, being so new to FF, but I was thinking multiple length droppers with a uni knot to the dry hook bend. It would be a pretty quick way to change droppers. Maybe loop-to-loop for dropper loops. Just spitballin'. nb |
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Dry and dropper question
On May 1, 1:20 pm, Jarmo Hurri wrote:
Hello gentlemen. I have been absent from this group for a while because of real-life issues (too much work). Fortunately the summer holiday is approaching - hence a fly-fishing related question came to my mind. Is there a way to make a dry and dropper rig so that adjusting the depth of the dropper could be done easily? I do not want to use an adjustable indicator or any other weird gadget, just two flies and tippet / leader material. -- Jarmo Hurri Commercial email countermeasures included in header email address. Remove all garbage from header email address when replying, or just use . 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. TL MC |
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Dry and dropper question
Of course, the drop fly is tied to the end of your leader.
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Dry and dropper question
It will also work using a leader ring and the same loop, if you want a
"stand-off" dry fly, and this will also allow you to use even knotted leaders if they pass through the ring. Otherwise the adjustment is of course limited to the distance between knots. TL MC |
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Dry and dropper question
Of course you can remove or change the dry fly at any time, simply by
passing it back through the loop. TL MC |
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Dry and dropper question
Is a bit difficult to explain clearly, so here´s a sketch;
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/4143/slidedryzd1.jpg TL MC |
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Dry and dropper question
Mike wrote:
Of course, the drop fly is tied to the end of your leader. TL MC ah...that's the part i didn't get. sounds workable, except won't the dry fly slip during parts of the casting motion? ....i also like the idea of a short permanently attached leader to the bend of the dry fly hook with a loop at the end for loop to loop attachment of varying lengths of pre-rigged dropper leaders with flies. i saw something - i think in an orvis circular - about a new (to me) nymphing leader system that has a series of loops down its length imparting a more natural action to the nymph as it moves with the current. jeff |
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Dry and dropper question
On May 1, 11:47 pm, jeff miller wrote:
Mike wrote: Of course, the drop fly is tied to the end of your leader. TL MC ah...that's the part i didn't get. sounds workable, except won't the dry fly slip during parts of the casting motion? ...i also like the idea of a short permanently attached leader to the bend of the dry fly hook with a loop at the end for loop to loop attachment of varying lengths of pre-rigged dropper leaders with flies. i saw something - i think in an orvis circular - about a new (to me) nymphing leader system that has a series of loops down its length imparting a more natural action to the nymph as it moves with the current. jeff If the fly tends to slip. then make one twist in the loop before threading the fly through it. In practice it does not actually slip much. I have not used it very much really, I only recently thought of it, ( end of last year) because I got fed up of having to change tippet lengths for fishing varying depth grayling runs. I have never seen it before either, so it might be a new idea. First time I have published it anywhere either. A couple of times, when larger fish took the dry, the fly slipped down a bit. But it doesn´t slip much during casting. With large dries, I use one twist in the loop before threading the fly through the loop. With the leader ring, I twist the loop once anyway. This seems to lock the ring in position very well. I have tried various loop systems, but for one reason or another didn ´t like them much. They can cause tangles, interfere with leader turnover, and are simply not very elegant. I don´t like tippet off the bend off the dry, ( the "New Zealand rig"), because it bumps fish, when they hit the nylon, and the hook never enters their mouths. After a large fish on the dry, you may have a slight kink in the line, but it doesn´t seem to cause any problems. TL MC |
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Dry and dropper question
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, 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. Congratulations and tight lines Lazarus |
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