How long should you make your dropper? (64 of 64)
Video Transcript:
Jim didn't even have time to sink. The fly hit the water, and the line went boop. That fish was just waiting for something to drop in, I guess, under the trees.
Nice, pretty brown trout. Sometimes you don't know how long of a dropper to put on your dry dropper. I started out looking upstream at the water, and it all looked pretty shallow.
I thought we were going to be fishing cockles, so I put on a short dropper, maybe that long. I went through here, hooked a couple of little ones, and decided that this pool looked really deep.
So I took off that dropper and put on a much longer dropper. It's probably, oh, I don't know, five feet because this pool looks deep.
I put on a heavier nymph and came up with a slightly bigger brown trout. Sometimes, when you come to a deeper pool, it's a good idea to change the depth of your dropper and the weight of your nymph.
You don't always need to make your nymph dropper one and a half times the water depth like you would with a standard indicator rig.
If you think the dry fly might work, then the fish are probably looking up anyway. Sometimes I think they're attracted to the dry, and then they see the nymph as an easier meal.