12-12-2007, 10:16 PM
Pa Wrote: [size 1]do u tie on the bend of the dry or elsewhere?[/size]
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[blue]I generally tie off at the bend of the hook. Sometimes I tie off at the eye of the hook. I do this more typically when I have a emerger. On occasion I have lost the tippet and fly off the bend of the hook when the barb is pinched very smoothly. I presume it is because of poor time execution of a cast from back to forward. At that time I either switch to a different lead fly or tie the dropper onto the eye of the lead dry fly.[/blue]
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[size 1][blue][size 2]Some people leave a very long tag end, 9" upto a couple of feet on the knot which ties the large fly to the tippet. Then to the long tag end they tie the nymph. This makes sense in that you now have one piece of tippet which one would think is stronger than having two seperate knots but I am not aware of any tests that prove this to be so. It may or may not be quicker. Dealing with the extra long tag end may eat up most of the time saves of having one knot as opposed to two knots and cutting a second tippet length. I have only tried this once or twice.[/size][/blue] [/size]
Most of the guys I fish with tie off at the bend of the hook. Probably more by that is what they learned than anything. That is what I learned when I first started fly fishing.
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[blue]I generally tie off at the bend of the hook. Sometimes I tie off at the eye of the hook. I do this more typically when I have a emerger. On occasion I have lost the tippet and fly off the bend of the hook when the barb is pinched very smoothly. I presume it is because of poor time execution of a cast from back to forward. At that time I either switch to a different lead fly or tie the dropper onto the eye of the lead dry fly.[/blue]
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[size 1][blue][size 2]Some people leave a very long tag end, 9" upto a couple of feet on the knot which ties the large fly to the tippet. Then to the long tag end they tie the nymph. This makes sense in that you now have one piece of tippet which one would think is stronger than having two seperate knots but I am not aware of any tests that prove this to be so. It may or may not be quicker. Dealing with the extra long tag end may eat up most of the time saves of having one knot as opposed to two knots and cutting a second tippet length. I have only tried this once or twice.[/size][/blue] [/size]
Most of the guys I fish with tie off at the bend of the hook. Probably more by that is what they learned than anything. That is what I learned when I first started fly fishing.
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