small flies for dry-dropper technique

Aaron: can you advise which commercially available flies could be substituted for the ones you recommend in your "Downsizing the Dry-Dropper" article, specifically the Hare and Rabbit caddis, the Haredicator and the the Hi-Vis Klinkhammer dries and the Micro Macro, Hare and Copper and Triple Threat nymphs?

Thanks
stevej

The caddis is a tough one to find a commercially tied fly to substitute for it. I have all of the small nymphs from the articles etc available through Pac Fly Group. Orvis has the high via Klinkhammer an you could use a parachute Adams. The only thing is that you won't have the high via parachute to see the fly from far away.

For dry dropper fishing I also like the PMX as well. That one can float some really heavy flies. The aetie was written to make people think about dry dropper differently. I notice that most guys only use big clunky flies for the dry fly. But scaling everything down can equal some really good catches during low water conditions.

I missed the article. Can someone tell me where to find it ?

Brook's Sprout Emerger, in all variations. One of my favorites for small dry/dropper setup, especially midges.

The article is in the March/April edition of "American Angler."

Thanks Aaron- I don't know how I missed it. Getting old I guess

Congratulations on the article Aaron. I first found your site when it didn't look like this at all. There were only a handful of go to flies and a video about Spruce Creek being under siege. Of course I found that searching for videos about my home water. I've learned a tremendous amount from you and the site since then. It is pretty cool to watch the evolution. Keep up the great work. It is appreciated and respected.

Thanks a lot! I really appreciate the compliments. None of this would be possible without true loyal friends. We have also added some new tying videos on our YouTube page. I'll post links to them on the site tonight.

Also, Justin told me that there is a possibility of a huge change coming to the site in the next few days.

I will admit that the Spruce Creek and Little Lehigh videos might have been a little over the top, but what it did show was that fly fishing is about having fun!

LittleJ,
Your observations regarding the site and its evolution with AJ at point are refreshing. Not everyone is willing to attest to how much they have learned here from Aaron and the top flight anglers like Davy Wotton who frequent this forum. I guess its typical for guys to learn what they can and move on without reflecting and appreciating where they learned many of the skills which have enhanced their fishing experience. Thank you for your kind words recognizing what Justin and Aarons tireless efforts have meant to you.

Also, as Little J has alluded to , the scope of Aaron's efforts has expanded in the past year. Aside from authoring numerous articles for national fly fishing publications he has teamed up with two videography professionals from New York City who have been willing to set up a portable recording studio smack dab.in the middle of numerous trout streams. I expect there will be more to come in that medium. His lifes work is teaching kids. Fly fishing isnt his job. He is in it for the fun and I think thats prretty cool.

Aaron, Just read your dry / dropper article, very nicely written. I fished dry/dropper alot last year and used the parachute Adams, and Klinkhammer with good success. I learned another way that was really effective in smaller streams around pocket water with short drifts, where it would be hard to get a good drift with the Euro method. I would be using the euro method with the coil and just by switching flies from the standard type Euro set up to say replacing the dropper with the dry fly and putting the smaller nymph where the point fly was I didn't have to change the leader set or coil up at all. It was excellent where there were Eddys around the pockets, in say higher faster water. Just letting the dry swirl around I would get strikes on both the dry and dropper. Usually it was short casts say 25 ft or so.

Then as I would work up stream and get to good Euro nymphing water I would just switch back! Only took a few minutes. Killer technique!