Author Topic: Dropper Dry Flies (Read 448 times)

Craig Whaley · « **Reply #25 on:** January 06, 2010, 05:45:51 PM »

yeah streamers

Mark Hanes · « **Reply #26 on:** January 06, 2010, 05:49:02 PM »

Start a new thread.

Jeff Fox · « **Reply #27 on:** March 12, 2010, 11:50:49 AM »

Anyone ever try a popper? I have been doing a lot of smallmouth fishing lately and from mid-summer on I get a lot of takes from the brown trout who also inhabit my home streams, on a popper that simulates a frog.

Poppers of course float like corks, because they are cork or some other bouyant foam material, are easy to tie, light weight, and should support a relatively weighted nymph. I am new to this fips-mouche arena but just from reading through your discussions I thought a popper might work under certain conditions as the dropper dry.

I plan to experiment and fish a variety of poppers on a more traditional trout stream this summer. Most of the streams here in Ohio that hold trout also have a transition area that holds smallies. The cooler upper reaches are all trout which i have fished with traditional methods but this discussoin has got me thinking about trying a popper and casting toward the bank and fishing it streamer style on these trout waters as well.
JJ

Dejon Hamann · « **Reply #28 on:** March 12, 2010, 03:35:59 PM »

Jeff, that's a really good suggestion. I'm gonna thumb through my Umpqua catalog and look at popper materials right now.

Mark Hanes · « **Reply #29 on:** March 12, 2010, 04:03:14 PM »

That is an interesting idea. Now if you went with a smaller popper that was about the size of a hopper or even a baitfish you might be able to get a few strikes on it. It really has potential one one stream I fish! it is always nice to see someone thinking outside the box.

Tim Long · « **Reply #30 on:** March 12, 2010, 05:10:37 PM »

How about using Davie McPhail's Double Humpy Comparadun. Davie McPhail is a beast!

Domenick Swentosky · « **Reply #31 on:** March 12, 2010, 07:09:16 PM »

I usually overhackle most of my parachutes. They float like crazy and can suspend quite a bit of weight. I also use polypro for the post, a few microfibbites mixed with the hackle for the tails and usually superfine for the dubbing. I also finish them with watershed or rainX. These parachutes really float.

-DS

Reid Bacon · « **Reply #32 on:** March 12, 2010, 07:23:14 PM »

The double humpy is the business!! I tie some foamulators with extra foam extending the eye to create extra chug I bet that a stimulator with a small foam popper head could do some damage.

John Killinger · « **Reply #33 on:** March 13, 2010, 08:07:35 AM »

Stimulator
Humpy
Patriot
Letort hopper

Kurt Finlayson · « **Reply #34 on:** March 14, 2010, 07:54:09 PM »

At the last Bend trial we were told balloon flies were out lawed. (that was just for that trial though)

Dreams of my Balloon-Wing Olive in the Umpqua catalog are over.

Dejon Hamann · « **Reply #35 on:** March 14, 2010, 08:51:23 PM »

Quote from: Kurt Finlayson on March 14, 2010, 07:54:09 PM

At the last Bend trial we were told balloon flies were out lawed. (that was just for that trial though)

Dreams of my Balloon-Wing Olive in the Umpqua catalog are over.

You see. That's really interesting and perplexes me. Are balloons outlawed at the world level yet?