how to use two fly

[beaverbill]

how do you tie the second fly on the leader and how far up

 

[gfen]

Need more information... Two dries? Two wets? Two nymphs? Any combination of the two?

 

[beaverbill]

Any combination

 

[gfen]

If I'm lazy, I use a surgeon's loop to just connect it, however, I've found much better results with tying onto the bend of each fly up with a cinch knot. I'm pretty sure the surgeon's loop adds some pretty wicked spin into it, but when I'm using a dry as an indicator, I'm not so inclined to care.

As to how far, it depends on what I'm doing. I most commonly use a big bushy dry as an indicator, and then hang a nymph or a wet and a nymph under it. The wet is usually 12" or so back, and the nymph goes down to as far as I think it needs to.

If I'm using a second dry fly, I'll more likely keep it shorter, 12" or so. I want to have an idea where I need to focus to see where the second dry is, although admittedly I haven't tried this method much.

All wets? About 12-18" between each fly on the cast.

I've never done a streamer/wet combo, but I know alot of people do.

Limit your false casting to as little as neccessary, and they say never roll cast (whatever, I still do, but it tends to end poorly after I've done it too much).

Be warned, tangles will become a new level of awful like you've never seen before, I routinely give up and cut the whole mess off. I also develop a bird's nest if I ever have the misfortune to tap my rod on the cast with one of the flies.

And losing 3 at a shot stings.

 

[afishinado]

Here are a couple of different multi-fly rigs:

http://stevenojai.tripod.com/nymph.htm

HTH.

 

[beaverbill]

thanks