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Fishing the Dropper Fly
Over the past decade or so, some fly fishers have hailed the dropper system as the latest and greatest thing to hit fly fishing since the graphite fly rod. The truth is the two fly dropper system has been around since fly fishing began. Like all techniques it has gone in and out of style over the generations. As new technologies are developed, fly fishing trends change, some things are labeled obsolete only to experience a re-birth later on. For whatever reason the dropper fly has experienced just such a re-birth and its uses are becoming more varied as well.
Over the past decade or so, some fly fishers have hailed the dropper system as the latest and greatest thing to hit fly fishing since the graphite fly rod. The truth is the two fly dropper system has been around since fly fishing began. Like all techniques it has gone in and out of style over the generations. As new technologies are developed, fly fishing trends change, some things are labeled obsolete only to experience a re-birth later on. For whatever reason the dropper fly has experienced just such a re-birth and its uses are becoming more varied as well.
The two fly dropper system is simply a way to fish two flies at one time, actually a fly fisher could fish more than two flies, but for this article we will stick to just two flies. The advantages of fishing two flies can be many. You can more quickly identify the 'hot fly', if fish hit one fly repeatedly you can eliminate the dropper fly. Another advantage is your ability to search through multiple levels in the water column. The theory goes that finding the depth where fish are holding will increase your chances of getting hits. Depending on the food sources immediately available, fish can be holding down at the bottom, or swirling near the surface, a dropper allows you to explore these possibilities.
Dropper Techniques
There are two basic dropper combinations. One is the sinker/sinker combo, and the other is the dry fly/dropper, sometimes called the hopper/dropper as hopper patterns work very well for this. In the sinker/sinker combo, two sub-surface patterns, are used, usually combined with split shot weights.
There are two trains of thought in the sinker/sinker combo. One is you attach the smaller fly first in the sequence and then attach the larger fly, such as a stonefly nymph and attach a split shot in between the flies. The idea here is that the smaller fly, perhaps an emerger pattern, will stay in the upper portion of the water column while the stonefly will sink down, towards the bottom, where the fish is most apt to strike them.
Others (including yours truly) take the opposite approach. Attach the bigger fly first, take that Stonefly nymph for example, put the weight above it, and then attach your emerger pattern. The idea is that the Stonefly nymph will sink to the bottom, and drift in its proper element. And dangling freely behind and above it will be your emerger or whatever smaller nymph you would like. Personally I have had great success with this rigging, although I must say I don't use the previously mentioned one very often.
The hopper/dropper combo, takes the same principles but applies them to a dry fly. Using a larger dry fly with lots of buoyancy, and gooped up with Gink, you then attach the sub-surface dropper pattern that will have you fishing sub-surface as well. If you are using a buoyant enough dry fly, then you may even use a small split shot above your sub-surface pattern, to help it stay down.
Rigging the Dropper
There are fancy ways to attach dropper flies to your tippet, some use the tag ends of the tippet, to attach the dropper fly, others use loops on the tippet itself. But for me there are two very simple ways to rig the dropper. After you have tied on your fly at the end of the tippet, you can easily attach about two feet of tippet through the eye of that fly, and then attach another fly and the other end of this tippet. This method does not work well if you are planning on attaching a split shot above the second fly. The other method involves rigging up normally, and then at the end of the bend of the fly already tied in, tie in a two foot or so section of tippet, and then tie in your fly at the end of this section. The drawback of this method is, it is easier to lose your dropper fly, especially when using barbless hooks.
Cast these riggings with care, as it is easier to tangle your flies. Once tangled it is often easier to cut the rigging off and redo it, rather than try to untangle two flies. Also cast very tightly, as it can become unwieldy with wild casting or under windy conditions. The last warning is in regards to releasing fish, always make sure both hooks are out of harms way, before releasing your fish. It is very easy during the release to snag the fish, your hands or your legs/waders, with the free hook.
Dropper riggings are great for searching for fish, they take a little practice to cast and to tie. But the rewards will quickly outweigh the time invested to learn the proper way to do it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cameron Larsen is a retired commericial fly tier and fly fishing guide. He now operates The Big Y Fly Company. bigyflyco/flyfishinghome.html He can be reached at info@bigyflyco. This article will appear in the Big Y Fly Fishing E-Zine at Http://www.bigyflyco/Bigyflyfishingezine.html
Tarpon Fishing and Catching The Elusive Silver King - Megalops Atlanticus
Learn more about this magnificent ocean creature at tarpon-fishing-i/. Growing to lengths of more thaneight feet and weighing more than 280 pounds, it is easy to seewhy the tarpon is one of the most sought after saltwater gamefishin the world. It's habitat is close to the shoreline so fishermenof all types and skill levels can catch them.
Learn more about this magnificent ocean creature at tarpon-fishing-i/. Growing to lengths of more thaneight feet and weighing more than 280 pounds, it is easy to seewhy the tarpon is one of the most sought after saltwater gamefishin the world. It's habitat is close to the shoreline so fishermenof all types and skill levels can catch them.
If you have ever had the priviledge of hooking up on a big tarponthen you know the exhilaration and thrill of testing yourself inbattle against one of the most sought after gamefish in theworld. This distinction is easy to see at first glance as thetarpon starts a series of spectacular acrobatic leaps in the airthat will have your heart pounding, your rod bending and yourdrag screaming. You better hold on!
Since the tarpon's habitat is so close to the shoreline,fishermen of all types and skill levels can catch them. They canbe caught from jetties, passes, docks, bridges, beaches, piersand rivers. Tarpon can be caught while using many types oftackle, rods, baits, lures and rigs either while fishing from aboat, canoe, kayak or walking and wading from the shoreline asthe tarpon work up and down the beaches.
Live bait fishermen's bait of choice is the 'dollar crab'. Asmall live blue crab about two inches across its carapace, hookedthrough one end of it's shell or underneath through a swimmerleg. Other extremely effective live baits include pinfish,threadfin herrings and pilchards. On days when the tarpon isbeing finicky in it's tablefare selection, try these for the bestresults, and oh, by the way, don't forget about a live mullet. Ifyou can get them, use them. Flyfishermen are not left out either.The stealth of casting the right fly can sometimes be the trickto hooking up.
But Just What is a Tarpon?
Scientific classification: Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: ChordataClass: Actinopterygii Order: Elopiformes Family: MegalopidaeGenus: Megalops
This exceptionally fine creature is a prehistoric animal and theonly fish with an air bladder. This allows it to absorb oxygenand live in waters with very low oxygen content. You can see themgulp air at the water surface. Tarpon are also called poons,tarpum, sabalo real, cuffum, silverfish or silver king and belongto the bony fish family Elopidae. The Latin designation isMegalops atlanticus.
While only microscopic at birth, tarpon have been documented atlengths of more than eight feet and weighing 280 pounds. Catchesweighing more than 200 pounds, while uncommon, do occur. Manyfish caught are well over 100 pounds. Their growth rate is slow,taking 8 to 10 years to reach maturity, and generally those over100 pounds are female. Tarpon can live 55 to 60 years. They aregreenish or bluish on top, and silver on the sides. The largemouth is turned upwards and the lower jaw contains an elongatedbony plate. The last ray of the dorsal fin is much longer thanthe others, reaching nearly to the tail.
They are found primarily in shallow coastal waters and estuaries,but they are also found in open marine waters, around coralreefs, and in some freshwater lakes and rivers. Their normalmigratory pattern ranges from Virginia to central Brazil in thewestern Atlantic, along the coast of Africa in the easternAtlantic, and all through the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.Florida is widely regarded as having many of the best tarponfishing locations in the world, especially the world-renownedBoca Grande Pass in Southwest Florida.
Fishing for the tarpon can at times be an excercise of patienceand discipline. You may be surrounded by large schools of rollingtarpon containing hundreds of fish and they will not hit anythingyou throw at them. Other times, it is a feeding frenzy. So, gofishing for tarpon every chance you get, that next world recordcatch may be waiting just for you.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
kenai salmon fishing
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Today's walleye fishing charters Article
Fishing the Dropper Fly
Over the past decade or so, some fly fishers have hailed the dropper system as the latest and greatest thing to hit fly fishing since the graphite fly rod. The truth is the two fly dropper system has been around since fly fishing began. Like all techniques it has gone in and out of style over the generations. As new technologies are developed, fly fishing trends change, some things are labeled obsolete only to experience a re-birth later on. For whatever reason the dropper fly has experienced just such a re-birth and its uses are becoming more varied as well.
Over the past decade or so, some fly fishers have hailed the dropper system as the latest and greatest thing to hit fly fishing since the graphite fly rod. The truth is the two fly dropper system has been around since fly fishing began. Like all techniques it has gone in and out of style over the generations. As new technologies are developed, fly fishing trends change, some things are labeled obsolete only to experience a re-birth later on. For whatever reason the dropper fly has experienced just such a re-birth and its uses are becoming more varied as well.
The two fly dropper system is simply a way to fish two flies at one time, actually a fly fisher could fish more than two flies, but for this article we will stick to just two flies. The advantages of fishing two flies can be many. You can more quickly identify the 'hot fly', if fish hit one fly repeatedly you can eliminate the dropper fly. Another advantage is your ability to search through multiple levels in the water column. The theory goes that finding the depth where fish are holding will increase your chances of getting hits. Depending on the food sources immediately available, fish can be holding down at the bottom, or swirling near the surface, a dropper allows you to explore these possibilities.
Dropper Techniques
There are two basic dropper combinations. One is the sinker/sinker combo, and the other is the dry fly/dropper, sometimes called the hopper/dropper as hopper patterns work very well for this. In the sinker/sinker combo, two sub-surface patterns, are used, usually combined with split shot weights.
There are two trains of thought in the sinker/sinker combo. One is you attach the smaller fly first in the sequence and then attach the larger fly, such as a stonefly nymph and attach a split shot in between the flies. The idea here is that the smaller fly, perhaps an emerger pattern, will stay in the upper portion of the water column while the stonefly will sink down, towards the bottom, where the fish is most apt to strike them.
Others (including yours truly) take the opposite approach. Attach the bigger fly first, take that Stonefly nymph for example, put the weight above it, and then attach your emerger pattern. The idea is that the Stonefly nymph will sink to the bottom, and drift in its proper element. And dangling freely behind and above it will be your emerger or whatever smaller nymph you would like. Personally I have had great success with this rigging, although I must say I don't use the previously mentioned one very often.
The hopper/dropper combo, takes the same principles but applies them to a dry fly. Using a larger dry fly with lots of buoyancy, and gooped up with Gink, you then attach the sub-surface dropper pattern that will have you fishing sub-surface as well. If you are using a buoyant enough dry fly, then you may even use a small split shot above your sub-surface pattern, to help it stay down.
Rigging the Dropper
There are fancy ways to attach dropper flies to your tippet, some use the tag ends of the tippet, to attach the dropper fly, others use loops on the tippet itself. But for me there are two very simple ways to rig the dropper. After you have tied on your fly at the end of the tippet, you can easily attach about two feet of tippet through the eye of that fly, and then attach another fly and the other end of this tippet. This method does not work well if you are planning on attaching a split shot above the second fly. The other method involves rigging up normally, and then at the end of the bend of the fly already tied in, tie in a two foot or so section of tippet, and then tie in your fly at the end of this section. The drawback of this method is, it is easier to lose your dropper fly, especially when using barbless hooks.
Cast these riggings with care, as it is easier to tangle your flies. Once tangled it is often easier to cut the rigging off and redo it, rather than try to untangle two flies. Also cast very tightly, as it can become unwieldy with wild casting or under windy conditions. The last warning is in regards to releasing fish, always make sure both hooks are out of harms way, before releasing your fish. It is very easy during the release to snag the fish, your hands or your legs/waders, with the free hook.
Dropper riggings are great for searching for fish, they take a little practice to cast and to tie. But the rewards will quickly outweigh the time invested to learn the proper way to do it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cameron Larsen is a retired commericial fly tier and fly fishing guide. He now operates The Big Y Fly Company. bigyflyco/flyfishinghome.html He can be reached at info@bigyflyco. This article will appear in the Big Y Fly Fishing E-Zine at Http://www.bigyflyco/Bigyflyfishingezine.html
Tarpon Fishing and Catching The Elusive Silver King - Megalops Atlanticus
Learn more about this magnificent ocean creature at tarpon-fishing-i/. Growing to lengths of more thaneight feet and weighing more than 280 pounds, it is easy to seewhy the tarpon is one of the most sought after saltwater gamefishin the world. It's habitat is close to the shoreline so fishermenof all types and skill levels can catch them.
Learn more about this magnificent ocean creature at tarpon-fishing-i/. Growing to lengths of more thaneight feet and weighing more than 280 pounds, it is easy to seewhy the tarpon is one of the most sought after saltwater gamefishin the world. It's habitat is close to the shoreline so fishermenof all types and skill levels can catch them.
If you have ever had the priviledge of hooking up on a big tarponthen you know the exhilaration and thrill of testing yourself inbattle against one of the most sought after gamefish in theworld. This distinction is easy to see at first glance as thetarpon starts a series of spectacular acrobatic leaps in the airthat will have your heart pounding, your rod bending and yourdrag screaming. You better hold on!
Since the tarpon's habitat is so close to the shoreline,fishermen of all types and skill levels can catch them. They canbe caught from jetties, passes, docks, bridges, beaches, piersand rivers. Tarpon can be caught while using many types oftackle, rods, baits, lures and rigs either while fishing from aboat, canoe, kayak or walking and wading from the shoreline asthe tarpon work up and down the beaches.
Live bait fishermen's bait of choice is the 'dollar crab'. Asmall live blue crab about two inches across its carapace, hookedthrough one end of it's shell or underneath through a swimmerleg. Other extremely effective live baits include pinfish,threadfin herrings and pilchards. On days when the tarpon isbeing finicky in it's tablefare selection, try these for the bestresults, and oh, by the way, don't forget about a live mullet. Ifyou can get them, use them. Flyfishermen are not left out either.The stealth of casting the right fly can sometimes be the trickto hooking up.
But Just What is a Tarpon?
Scientific classification: Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: ChordataClass: Actinopterygii Order: Elopiformes Family: MegalopidaeGenus: Megalops
This exceptionally fine creature is a prehistoric animal and theonly fish with an air bladder. This allows it to absorb oxygenand live in waters with very low oxygen content. You can see themgulp air at the water surface. Tarpon are also called poons,tarpum, sabalo real, cuffum, silverfish or silver king and belongto the bony fish family Elopidae. The Latin designation isMegalops atlanticus.
While only microscopic at birth, tarpon have been documented atlengths of more than eight feet and weighing 280 pounds. Catchesweighing more than 200 pounds, while uncommon, do occur. Manyfish caught are well over 100 pounds. Their growth rate is slow,taking 8 to 10 years to reach maturity, and generally those over100 pounds are female. Tarpon can live 55 to 60 years. They aregreenish or bluish on top, and silver on the sides. The largemouth is turned upwards and the lower jaw contains an elongatedbony plate. The last ray of the dorsal fin is much longer thanthe others, reaching nearly to the tail.
They are found primarily in shallow coastal waters and estuaries,but they are also found in open marine waters, around coralreefs, and in some freshwater lakes and rivers. Their normalmigratory pattern ranges from Virginia to central Brazil in thewestern Atlantic, along the coast of Africa in the easternAtlantic, and all through the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.Florida is widely regarded as having many of the best tarponfishing locations in the world, especially the world-renownedBoca Grande Pass in Southwest Florida.
Fishing for the tarpon can at times be an excercise of patienceand discipline. You may be surrounded by large schools of rollingtarpon containing hundreds of fish and they will not hit anythingyou throw at them. Other times, it is a feeding frenzy. So, gofishing for tarpon every chance you get, that next world recordcatch may be waiting just for you.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
kenai salmon fishing
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