Tips for Fishing Small Dry Flies (66 of 66)
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...in relation to my line and leader. And then I can turn around and make a more delicate, accurate cast into the spot I'm going to fish and hopefully know about where my fly is.
Another thing you can do is try to use this sighter wax, this bright-colored sighter wax that they use for Euro nymphing. You can put some of this on your leader, and that may help you see where that dry fly is.
So, similar to the indicator, but a little more subtle.
So there's one other way that you can fish a small dry fly, and that's to use double dries. Use a big dry fly—it might be an attractor—but it's more or less an indicator, and then you use a small dry tied to the end of that big fly.
I don't do it that often when there are rising fish because I think I lose my accuracy, and I think sometimes the bigger fly might spook the fish. But in faster water, it's a good thing to try.
You just pick a reasonable dry fly that's going to be very visible.
So this fly has both a high wing and some orange on it, so this is going to show up in almost any kind of water.
So what I'm going to do is tie that on here and then tie a piece of tippet either to the eye of this fly or to the bend of the hook and put my small dry fly behind it.
So at least I'll know about where my small dry fly is. And I would say you probably want about 8 to 10 inches of distance between the two flies to separate them a little bit, but you don't want them too far apart because then you're not going to know where your smaller fly is.