A dry dropper is a two-fly rig that combines a dry fly and either a nymph or emerger, allowing you to fish on the surface and subsurface at the same time. If you’re fishing shallow water but not ...

Dry Dropper by Dean Growdon It’s been a few weeks since I last wrote about the technicalities of fly fishing, so this week I ...

Red snapper fishing tip: How to tie a dropper-loop rig Capt. Markus Borsman-Gneist, of Mayhem charters in Stuart, demonstrates how to tie a dropper-loop rig, often called a "chicken" rig, to fish for ...

A dry-dropper rig is an extremely effective presentation tool that benefits from a highly visible dry fly and a subsurface fly. The large dry fly serves a dual purpose when incorporated into this ...

For those of you who are new to the game or have been holed up in some dark, far-off place, I would like to introduce and recommend a very effective way to fish our rivers and streams here in the ...

The author holds a landlocked salmon caught on a nymph rig on the Rapid River. Credit: Courtesy of Robert Tourigny If you’re fishing Maine rivers right now, nymph rigs are the most effective way to ...