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Post by waterwhipper on May 31, 2005 9:41:17 GMT -5
The main advantage I have found is that if the droppers tangle around the main line then you can cut the dropper off at the ring and tie another one on really quickly instead of binning the whole leader.
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Post by fredaevans on May 31, 2005 10:56:26 GMT -5
The problem with the seamless rings is that you have to tie 3 knots for every dropper instead of just one by normal means. CS, keeping in mind these rings are something I've not seen in my area, to keep the rings in place do you need to tie a knot too/from to the next? Could you just slip a loop through the ring, over the top and snug up? This is the 'way' one of our more common 'indicators' is set on the upper leader. Fred |
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Post by MickeyP on May 31, 2005 12:49:58 GMT -5
Hi Folks,
About a month ago I attended a talk given by Nick Halstead who demonstrated a fantasic way of tying droppers. It took some practice at first but it really works and I have had no lost fish or broken nots yet using this method and best of all a 2 dropper leader can be tied up in less than a minute. Unfortunately it is a more of a "I see so I understand" kind of thing rather than just having it explained. It doesn't stop the flies from birds nesting (I think that more is down to casting and luck) but being able to cut off the birds nest leader and tie on another in a couple of minutes is a really great skill to have.
I'll pm Nick and ask if he could maybe try and post instruction as how tie up a leader with his method I know if I tried I would just confuse everybody.
Tightlines
Mick
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Post by waterwhipper on May 31, 2005 14:16:14 GMT -5
When using the silver rings I always use (what I think is) a half bloodknot as it seems to keep everything in line better. I think if you use loops the line would hinge to much and you may end up with problems.
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