03-04-2009, 10:29 PM
First off, you can tandem any fly. Allot are doing them now.
The fly I posted awhile back with the stinger is a tandem, so yes you could do a tandem Clouser.
Now, there is different types of sinking line. An intermediate would probably stay sub surface in a good river current. It doesn't have time to sink that fast, that is why I prefer a Type II or III. Don't forget, there are the wet cells also that form a belly so the line drops faster than the fly.
In a good current, a type II would put you at about a foot deep towards the end of your drift. You would have to read up on the sink rate for the different lines, but off the top of my head, type II is like 2" per second, but on a river it is moving.
Steelheaders will use very heavy sink tips to get down quick.
Joan Wulff's video is the dead drift...yes you want a little slack, but no on a streamer, or very, very little. You would miss to many takes by the time the line straightened. Nymphing is totally different.
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The fly I posted awhile back with the stinger is a tandem, so yes you could do a tandem Clouser.
Now, there is different types of sinking line. An intermediate would probably stay sub surface in a good river current. It doesn't have time to sink that fast, that is why I prefer a Type II or III. Don't forget, there are the wet cells also that form a belly so the line drops faster than the fly.
In a good current, a type II would put you at about a foot deep towards the end of your drift. You would have to read up on the sink rate for the different lines, but off the top of my head, type II is like 2" per second, but on a river it is moving.
Steelheaders will use very heavy sink tips to get down quick.
Joan Wulff's video is the dead drift...yes you want a little slack, but no on a streamer, or very, very little. You would miss to many takes by the time the line straightened. Nymphing is totally different.
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