Dry and Dropper

[Roadkill]

How many of you fish a dry fly as an indicator with a trailing wet. My favorite combination is my Bottle Brush October Caddis with an OC soft hackle about 18" behind it. It is that time of year and here is my old dry that skates well on top...

RIMG9688 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

Hook-Mustad 9672 #10
Tail & under body-Orange deer hair
Thread-3/0 Orange Mono Cord body with palmered hackle down to the eye.

Don't be surprised if a fish takes the SH and another grabs the skating dry. I sure was when I fished this the first time in 1989.

[Roadkill]

Here is one of my old October Caddis soft hackles that I put on below the Bottle Brush.

B0059224 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

If I am fishing a 3-fly cast of these when the hatch is hot. The weighted one will go on point and one without the wire rib will go up about another 18 inches up the leader and below the dry.

The weighted one will anchor the other SH just below the surface and I am free to dap the dry on the water to attract a strike. I have had trout jump as high as a foot out of water to grab the dry in midair.