Just read an article recommending a tandem rig with the nymph tied in front and a streamer as the dropper. The theory being that this will imitate a bait fish following a nymph and will provoke an attack by big browns or rainbows. I'm dubious about the concept but was wondering if anyone out there had ever tried it and what the results were? The same article also suggested using a heavy tungsten beaded nymph to get down fast with an unweighted nymph tied as a dropper as this will then permit dropper to imitate a nymph that has been knocked into the current and is trying to get back down to cover. Now that made more sense to me.

Terry

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Surely the streamer on the point and the nymph on the dropper to achieve that result.

Jim

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Sorry Jim,

My bad but what do you think of the idea?

Terry

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"He either fears his fate too much,
Or his desserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch,
To win or lose it all!"

I have used this rig,and caught fish,but think that it just looked good to me and I thought that it looked like fish trying to catch fly

Jim

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If this was what the actual trout was observing ( a Fish following the nymph) then would a Pike Fly on the point attract really big Trout

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Why go to extremes. the americans use big wooly b*ggers as standard(representing minnows/sculpins) on their driftboating trips for trout.

Jim

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Hi', Jim and Terry. You beat me to it again, Jim, re the chaser and the chased.
In the UK angling scene, Terry, one of the popular uses of the Booby, when fished on a sunken line, was to present it on the point and have its buoyancy suspend a dropper fly a foot or so off the lake bed. Short pull-and-pause retrieving resulted in the Booby appearing to chase the dropper fly down into the weeds or bottom debris. That was the way in which the solo Booby was supposed to be fished when it was first introduced. Some of the 'duo' method's supporters claimed that it appealed to or provoked the competitive instinct of any fish in the vicinity.
I can't say that I tried that, but I have found that fishing with a larger 'wake' fly on the point, and a smaller muddler on the dropper, can produce pretty impressive bow-waving follows by rainbow trout when they are 'fry bashing' -- and for me, most of the fish were taken on the dropper. It's not a method I have used a lot, as I fish mainly in rivers, but a big, foam minnow on the point has done the attracting bit, while a muddler or an out and out fry pattern has been the real target, on the dropper. TerryC

Hi Vermontdrifter,

The same sort of concept is used in sea angling with 'flounder spoons' where you have a spoon above a baited hook and the thinking is effectively the same, that the targeted flatfish sees a wee skitter after a meaty worm and it comes in to take the bait in a fit of jealousy or one-upmanship (if you pardon the apparent anthropomorphism). I usually just go with the worm though as it casts better!

Andy