Slip knot?

[bernie robidart]

Is there an easy way to adjust the dropper depth when using a hopper/dropper rig? I can keep changing the leader length but in certain places on the river I fish, I would be changing the leader every few minutes. So I opt to use a ‘strike indicator’ that allows the depth to be changed easily. I would rather fish a hopper/dropper setup. Any ideas?

[Jason DeBacker]

Here’s one way to do that – tie mono loops into the indicator fly so you can loop it onto the leader: http://burlfish.blogspot.com/2008/10/super-hopper-dropper.html

Jason

[Kent Edmonds]

For a sliding indicator attachment, you can take a separate piece of mono, tie it on to your leader with a uni-knot, then attach the indicator to a long tag from the uni. It will then be easy to slide the knot up or down and adjust depth. Might be trouble to try with “hooked indicator” as tags will exit the uni-knot more or less parallel to leader, and might be prone to tangle – but it works good with an indicator.

Kent - FlyFishGA

[Zach Matthews]

I would probably tie a half-hitch loop in the leader, and then with the loop coming out I would pass the *whole loop* through the eye of the hook on my hopper and over the back of the fly and then tighten it so the loop cinches up against the eye.  That will give you a “snell” connection; basically a loop to loop knot using the eye of the hook as one “loop.”  

If you want to move the hopper, you should be able to tease the loop back open by wetting the connection and holding the line-side tippet while gently tugging on the fly.  Then un-loop it and re-tie wherever you want to put it.  This is how my balloon indicators are attached and I move them this way as well.

Zach

[brian dunigan]

I think you may find that the loop-to-loop through the eye of the hopper cinches down tight enough to kink and weaken a fine tippet.

[Zach Matthews]

Brian –

It would certainly be possible to break off a big fish on fine tippet no matter the connection, and it will undoubtedly kink, but then again, so will any knot.

[brian dunigan]

I’m saying the slip knot doesn’t cinch down as tightly on a balloon indicator as it will on a small hook eye.

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