How to fish a dry dropper rig in small streams (43 of 51)
Video Transcript:
Thomas: So, in a small stream, dry droppers are the best way to go. It's pretty straightforward. You put a big, high-floating dry fly on. Put plenty of liquid on it, or paste, or whatever potion you like to float your fly. And then tie on, I usually use 5x fluorocarbon, you can use 4x. About the average depth of what you think you're gonna fish, or a little bit longer, and then any old nymph. I happen to have a really beat-up old [00:00:30] Hare's deer flashback that's kind of a reject from my other fly box, but it'll work in here. I'm not worried about it. So that's all you do. Somebody splashed at the dry fly. Come on, guys.
Male Speaker: Oh, yes, Thomas.
Thomas: Whoa, nice [00:01:00] one on the dry. You know, that's why it pays to fish dry dropper. If I had an indicator on there, he would've eaten that indicator, and I wouldn't have caught that fish. So, somebody, we haven't had a single rise to the dry fly, but yet this halfway decent brown trout for this little stream came up and ate the dry.