dry droppers = bird’s nests

[steven crannell]

Wondering if anyone could throw a few hints on reducing the tangles when fishing with this setup.

[john switow]

Try opening up your loop a bit, make more or a circle out of your casting stroke.

[anonymous]

Grew up throwing three soft hackle fly dropper rigs for wild burn/creek/…Brown Trout in Scotland. Rods

[todd settle]

I think the Roll Cast is the answer to multiple flies.

[regan c. kenyon jr.]

I use various casts designed to avoid false casting.

[douglas dear]

I fish a dry with a dropper all the time.  I think florocarbon tipet and leader is the key– far fewer knotting issues than with mono.  

[Morsie]

Last weekend I watched a workshop delivered on this very subject by FFF Master Instructor and great Tasmanian guide Peter Hayes. Much of Peter’s fishing is in lakes and often with 3 dries.  He didn’t go into the rig he used as the subject at the time was retrieves but this is a rig I use…….

Use a short tapered leader about 5 feet long as a butt section then connect your tippet to this. best to avoid f/c as this sinks TOO readily. Use a triple turn surgeons knot with long tags and once the knot is tight tie a half hitch (using the fly line end tag) around the leader pulled up tight against the ttsk – this will set the tag out at a right angle – leave this tag at around 12″. Allow approximately 4-5 feet between tags. Don’t bother building a taper into it just keep adding sections.

Peter fishes 3 dries and almost always uses a retrieve, especially when there’s a chop on the water and he’s drifting in a boat.

You want a fly line with a reasonable front taper, nothing too fine and long in the front as you want to transfer the energy into that leader. Suggestions re casting are correct – you will need to open up the loop and power that thing over – the untapered leader and multiple dry flies will prevent a too splashy touchdown. “Belgian” or constant tension cast is good, roll cast not so good with 3 dries as they’ll get waterlogged very quickly.

The poms (English) are really good at this stuff (I guess they have to be good at something) ;D ;D ;D 😀 😎 ::) That’s an old Australia v England love hate issue guys. 😉

Morsie

[Mark Schafer]

Steve,
I think these guys have you covered but it might help to post a photo of your typical setup.

[john michael white]

I can’t add more than what the others above have said, but I fish an indicator, shot, and three fly nymph set up a lot, and have no problem casting it (although I still remember the early days of learning to cast this with only a two fly rig and getting tangled

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