Double dry-fly rig

[northcountryman]

Today everything was on the dry! Since I'm waderless for another few days, went up to some headwaters where I can wet-wade and nail some brookies. Everything caught today was on the dry fly, most dry-fly action I've had this season. just to amuse myself at 1 point, I tied on a 2nd dry off the first, 1 a#12, the other a #14, about 12 inches of tippet tied to the hook off the first. I don't know if it increased my catch rate or not, but it certainly worked!! It was fun to flick both flies across the surface, then skitter them a bit, waiting for the slam!!

[Troutastic]

Very cool! I use this method a lot in the late fall/winter months when the fish are rising to very small midges. I'll use a bigger point dry fly and trail the midge/midge emerger off of that and use the point as an indicator. Usually works well, although on occasion I've noticed the fish will turn away when they see the bigger fly. At that point I'll go with a double rig of emergers and use a greased leader (sometimes with indicator) to get a stealthier approach.

[SherpaB]

I double dried this morning in Deckers. Teeny tiny cream midges coming off along with some tricos. Put a #14 Parachute Adams as the lead fly dropped by some various midge drys(#22-26). They banged the Adams by about 5-1 over the midge. I credit the Harvey slack leader for that. Two nice fish came on the Adams and a bunch of more average sized fish on the midges. The water is low the fish are spooky and its the only game in town near the front range so all the good spots were taken by 8AM.

[Troutastic]

Way to go Bob! I am thinking I may poke around the Frying Pan again on Tuesday, or possibly the Taylor since they dropped the flows a little bit (aroudn 400 cfs now). We'll see, supposed to get snow again above 9k ft tonight and tomorrow, we'll see what happens then...

[Troutastic]

Sorry Northcountryman, didn't mean to steal your topic...

[northcountryman]

No problem at all, enjoyed reading your repsonses!! TT, When you use the emerger as a trailer w/ the dry , do you grease it? I know you said you did w/ the double emerger rigup. Also, are your emergers pretty much sitting abover water or are theyin the surface film a bit.

Thanks!!
NCMan

[Troutastic]

No problem at all, enjoyed reading your repsonses!! TT, When you use the emerger as a trailer w/ the dry , do you grease it? I know you said you did w/ the double emerger rigup. Also, are your emergers pretty much sitting abover water or are theyin the surface film a bit.

NCMan, generally speaking I don't grease the tippet from the point dry to the dropper. If I do a greased leader technique, its the entire leader, up to about a foot and a half to the first fly. For the emergers, it all depends what you want them to do. Sometimes I'll throw some floatant on them if I want them on the surface. Some of them are designed to hang in the film which is achieved by either putting floatant on the top of the fly or using a fly that will keep just the head of the fly afloat. It's usually pretty obvious when that's the case, they'll have a tuft of CDC, computer packing foam, or just some closed cell foam on top of the fly to keep it buyoant. Sometimes I'll just use a midge pupae as the dropper with a small bead so that it hangs somewhere just under the surface or in the water column.