1stfly wrote:
rudeone wrote:
Jonas (from the Feathered Hook for those of you who have not met him yet) showed me a cool little trick for fishing Penns and not getting hung up so much on the bottom. Put the weight at the very bottom, below the fly or flies. That way your weight goes all the way to the bottom but allows your fly to stay above the bottom enough to prevent losing so many flys. You're not dragging the fly over rocks and sticks as much and due the the shape of the weight vs that of a hook hang-ups are fewer. The only bad aspect is that you have to cut the weight off if you change flies often.
I like this idea and have used a similar setup fishing a very rocky saltwater inlet.
[color=CC0066]How do you think tying a dropper to just hold the shot would work? Then you wouldn't have to worry about all the cutting/retying when you change flies. Also if the shot gets hung up, you will just break off the shot leaving the flies.[/color]