Posts Tagged ‘Droppers’
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Droppers are lengths of tippet tied off the main leader to facilitate incorporating additional flies in the cast.
They are common practice in a ‘loch style’ leader used for fishing for trout with a middle and or top dropper often being used to incorporate one or more attractor flies or additional flies to ‘match the hatch’ or just to give the target fish a choice of flies.
I also sometimes use a single dropper on the leader set up I use for my #8, weight outfits when I am fishing the estuaries for bream, flathead and the like and also when I am fishing for Australian native species such as bass, saratoga, tarpon or the various perch when fishing in relatively snag free water.
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{{+1}}Bibio blob{{-1}}
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One of my favourite flies for waters where there is midge activity is the bibio and when I am fishing those waters most of the time I have a bibio on the top dropper. This blob is fast becoming a go to alternative to a bibio for me.{{end}}
Last Updated: January 2, 2018
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{{+1}}Bass special – Chatto’s original{{-1}}
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It's no surprise therefor that I have a cousin to my trout bag , perhaps with a little influence from the yeti fly, in my bass fly box. Unlike the trout bag fly I seldom fish this fly as a single fly but find that if fished fished on a dropper about 1.2 meters above one of my preferred point flies it works like a dream.{{end}}
Categories: Bass, EP's, perch and saratoga flies, Flies, Other species
Tags: Bass, Droppers, Frogs, loch, smelt 
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{{+1}}Mark II woolly bugger – alternate tie{{-1}}
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The MK 2 woolly buggers evolved from standard black and olive woolly buggers as a fly that would imitate an American frog that had bright red between its hind legs and consequently the red tag is traditionally tied in below the tail. This tie is a little more popular than the original tie these days and is main point of difference is that the tag tied in on top.{{end}}
{{+1}}Dunkeld – Chatto’s fuzzeled variant{{-1}}
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The Dunkeld is certainly one of my top 5 middle dropper flies for lock style fly fishing. Until 18 months ago I was using a version of the Dunkeld that had a hackle Palmered along the body as in the original. At that time I was experimenting with "fuzzeled" bodies an an alternative to bodies with a Palmered hackle and applied that technique to this fly with immediate success.{{end}}