How to make an ADJUSTABLE Dry-Dropper System 

When Cory talks people listen! Thanks Cory!!

Cory, I like this. NW Flyfishing uses this with triple surgeon knots tied off at interval. Either works but I like your way to slide it up to your point of choice and let the fish pull it down to the stopper. Thanks for the pointers

I've been fly fishing for over 50 years. Still learning... Thanks for a great tip!

Another great tip from the master! Thanks Cory!

Great tutorial. Thanks for sharing!

Cory, you did it again! Your stuff is always on point and super helpful

Thanks Cory! As always, your gold nuggets of information are always on point 👏🏼😎

Another pearl. Thanks for sharing

So awesome. Love all your videos. They've helped me so much

This is a fantastic video. Thanks so much for posting it. Incredibly useful. Can't wait to prep some of these set-ups and watch more of your videos.

Great tip/ trick for the varying depth dropper system. Thanks!

Great idea 😊 thanks for some great content

Genius, going to try this ASAP . Thanks for the great content

This is genius! I'll be utilizing this system from now on.Thanks for all the other tidbits of information about dropper length, etc.

This is a great tip, thanks!!

Thanks Cory as always great information

excellent video, thanks for sharing your experience. Great channel

That’s versatile-thanks for the video.

Looks plenty simple. Will give it a go! Thanks much!

Great video Cory a lots of good information like how you put that out for us to learn those technics for sure, helpful no doubt thanks

That’s a good 1, Cory. Like those easy in stream adjustments. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Bruh. Solid.

Excellent advice and much appreciated down under in NZ.

This is a solid rigging tip! Thanks man!

Great idea I will definitely be trying this thanks

This might just be the game changer I was looking for, I’m definitely going to give this a shot. Thank you!

Great video!

Great tip Cory!!!! I have never tried that, though about it .. I like that system I’d use that all the time!!!!

Getting ready to try a hopper dropper. Awesome info as always. Can’t wait to give this a go and see how it works. Keep posting I’ll keep watching. Tight lines friend.

Great tip

Thanks a lot for sharing your system with us Cory...been looking for a reliable solution for adjustable dry-dropper river fishing for wild fish, specifically with smaller flies and tippet diameters...appreciate the simplicity and flexibility your system offers...and I know I can trust its effectiveness with hook-ups etc based on your own experience...very helpful as always.

Hey Cory, I am very interested in watching and seeing how this work. Keep up the great content. You have done a wonderful job with your channel over the years and are building something special, I hope you can see that. Tight lines my friend and hope to share a stream with you sometime.

Very handy -- thanks!

Awesome tip. I'm going to use it for my double nymph rigs as well. Will save me a ton of time on the water.

Great advice cory thanks👍🛋

I struggle at first but them I got a system going and now I've tied a dozen of them and I'll do like you and store them in my vest. Thanx for the tutorial .tight lines.

Thats genius! Thank you.

very clever. will try it next time🤙

Awesome. That's my set up for euro nymph.

Nice one, been looking for an easy way to do this, for long time!

New to fly fishing, been having some success but this is going to be a game changer! It's been getting annoying clipping and retying knots on my dry droppers while I'm wading especially when it's windy, this is going to help tremendously! Thanks for the tips Cory, tight lines!

Thanks for this video ( and all your others). It's amazing how fly fishers get to the same place using different methods. I tie a tippet ring on the end of my dry- dropper hoppers and then it's easy to adjust the depth. Just clip off the old and tie in a new length of tippet and your ready. Starting in a couple of weeks I'll use this almost exclusively on small Western rivers and streams.

Love learning from you1

Fantastic vid.....

Really cool idea and easy to follow Cory thank's for sharing big like from me bud tight line's and catch you on the next video 🎣🤝👍

New Sub here. Loved this! Very helpful idea! Thank you!

Nice , I also use this as a drop shot rig weight on bottom flies above easy to change tags when they get to short . Thanks for sharing.

Nice job Cory. I've used the loop but never thought of sliding it up as an adjustable dropper. Dang...we need rain! Tightlines!

Excellent! For your next instructional video, the lit cigar would be a nice touch. Lol.

I just recently switched to that c&f pack also, loving it so far. I replaced the neck strap with Paracord and foam from another old lanyard for better comfort

Cool, nice to see someone else is doing this besides me. I pre-tie them and place them in medicine pill pouches just like when you pull out a new leader making very small loops to keep the single dropper together placing about 10 in a pill pouch. 😉

I was literally fishing yesterday wishing for a simple and reliable adjustable dry/dropper rig. I rarely fish dry/droppers because of the depth variability issues you describe, and when I do I struggle with dialing in a fixed depth for my nymph. I'm gonna give this shot next time.

Awesome!!!

I’ve never even seen 7x. Good stuff thanks

I use this system for steelhead with weight on the bottom and fly on the tag and the loop lands all of them. I also keep my tags in a used plastic extra gum containers keeps them neat. Thanks for expanding my knowledge, great idea.

First, I am a big fan, thank you for the great content. With making fishing easier, Dr. Paul Gaskell teaches a ladder leader, which is a series of figure 8 knots that you tie in several places in the point or main line. So you can move your tags wherever you need. I have been using this and moving tags around is fast from a foot of water to four. The plus is that the perfection loop spins on the main line also making for less unwanted knots

Very informative video. Thank you but I would like to see you more on the streams. God bless great job.

Great stuff...maybe for a "short" but I would love to see how your do a Davy on stream. Thanks as always!!

Going to try the crap out of this next time I go! I am in love with a dry dropper for the summer.

Great insight 👍what size tippet do you premake your perfection loops with. Thank you for sharing your talents 🪰

Love this...the best ideas are the simplest and this is genius, Cory. Thanks for sharing your expertise. Question fro you: What's your recommendation for tippet when making a bunch of these perfection loop dry fly lines to take with me? Would using my 2lb or 4lb trout mono line work? Or, should I make them with a 3, 4, or 5X tippet? Thanks again...gonna put this in play this weekend up on the Upper Owens River.

Hi. Great video. I have used this solution as well but the issue I’ve been having is the dry fly moves when I cast. What kind of tippet material are you using?

Hey Cory! Cool idea! Lack of adjustability is the main reason why I will fish an indicator instead of a dry fly in some of these situations. This obviously solves that which is super cool. I'm wondering if you have tried doing a similar thing as this using a uni knot, similar to what you would do when adding a backing barrel? They are adjustable and you could leave a tag for the dry fly. I'm guessing it would be kind of hard to get the tension right with fine tippet compared to your method. I might give it a try and see what happens. Thanks for sharing.

Question for ya , have you ever had any issues with hook ups on the dry . Does the perfection loop ever loosen on the line and lead to a softer hook set because of the loop sliding down the line until it hits that stopper knot or has that not been a problem ? Great video ! And I can’t wait to give this system a go . Cheers

I like the way think 🤔👌🏼

Thanks

Nice 💥

thank you

Great tip! If you are using a dry dropper in a medium sized stream that you are fishing for the first time, what is your go-to leader/tippet system? 9’ 4x with 12” of 5x so total of 10’? Thx

What leader formula do you like for this rig? And can a tippet ring act as a stopper for the sliding loop instead of a knot? Thanks. Great idea!

Thanks for the idea Cory. Will the sliding dropper for the dry fly affect a hook set?

Great video. Could this also be used for a double nymph rig?

Nice video bud! Which model c&f pack is that you’re using?

The length of my dropper doesn't seem to matter. Snarls haunt me. Love the moveable tags. After giving a lot of thought to the dry dropper issue, I've drawn from a few sources, you included, and worked out a simple fly that I think may do the trick. Thinly dubbed abdomen, deer hair wing, a second wing of several preened cul de canard feather tips, and a splash of hot pink filament in front. Thin wire long #14. Have you fished any of the spring-fed streams in the Missouri Ozarks? Enormous springs, some of them

This is a genius life hack. Thank you for the exceptional explanation. This has me wondering if you’ve tried to tie in the triple surgeon ‘stopper knots’ every 6-12 inche”s and remove and reattach tag to the different sections to reduce the slippage amount of the dry along the line? Not as convenient as just occasionally resliding the dry back to the desired position, but would keep the dry in a relatively smaller section of slippage zone. Would the added knots along the line adversely affect the action of the presentaion upon laying down the line in the cast? Also, have you experimented with the bottom ‘stopper knot’ actually being the smallest of tippet rings leading to change over of the dropper section quicker as dropper section shortens with change of dropper fly? Anyway, love the simple ingenuity and thank you for sharing.

Never mind found it , again thank you

Cory, great suggestion ! I've used the double surgeon stopper for quite a while, but I didn't realize that a perfection loop used directly on tippet would actually keep the dry fly in position. Any problem with this plan using 5x flouro ?

I Love the adjustable dry dropper concept, it's a great idea, and thank you for sharing it. My main fear and concern using it would be misssed hook sets on the dry due to the ability of the perfection loop to slide down the line. Has that happened to you, what is your experience?

Corey like this and especially the last advice three to four inches max.. question .. what about in example the tandems ( in example Sott from Pa @woods uses) like what's actually better and for which situations besides depth ,, what about fast and slow water situations for tandems tia hope all is well going to west branch eb delaware upper branches this week

Thanks Cory for your videos, been binge watching your content just subscribed! Two questions 1. On a traditional fly like does the dry fly on a tag reduce strike detection? 2. Any tips on preventing tangles when casting on traditional fly line when using dry off the tag?

Wow I just learned a lot watching this, so much I'll need to watch it a couple times to digest. Just a Philly native hack here who fishes upstate Pocono & Allegheny mountain areas since a teenager with both spin & fly. I basically work pools upstream stripping wooly buggers/worms, streamers & muddlers on 3 ft. of 4 lb. test that I cut tied to a metal loop connector. I'm only targeting aggressive fish, then I move on to the next pool. I have no patience for the match-the-hatch technique which is probably my ultimate downfall. Shame on me. LOL.

Thanks for the video. Do you find that the dryfly/tag will slide down to the knot below when false casting?

What's the advantage over just tying a clinch knot around the tippet? Does the loop method hold the dry's position better? Is it stronger? Or something else?

Thanks. Great idea. Just one question. After you slide up your dropper when moving into deeper water why don't you slide your surgeons know stub up with it ?

we used to bait rig our spinning rods like that when we were kids.

Hey Cory, great video! I understood the whole thing except how you ‘looped in’ the perfection loop to the straight piece of tippet. Can you clarify how you did that? Thanks!

Very good idea, but the tag your doung looks larger then 5 or 6 x, was it for demonstration purpose for video?

Hi, could you please create a video about your fly line? If you have a special nymph line, could you also demonstrate the length of the leader and sighter you use?

Do you think tying the tag on with a clinch knot would be much different that the loop?

Hey O D, is this on your euro set up or a traditional flyrod with a floating line set up? Thank you sir!

What size tippet do you use for the perfection loop? 4x or maybe 3x to make it stand off the main tippet? Thx....good tip.

Hi Cory why do you prefer the dry on a tag as opposed to the nymph being attached to the hook bend in a dry dropper rig?

If I want to fish deeper and I move the dry fly perfection loop up 8-12”, is it going to stay there after several casts and drifts or is it going to start sliding down? After I slide it up the line do I need to tighten the perfection loop dropper?

hi , my problem is sinking dry and my max nymph is 3mm tungsten bead but whatever dry I use always gets pulled under so open to ideas to prevent that, cheers

Do you ever have issues with friction cutting your flouro line when the perfection loop slips down to the triple surgeons knot?

Do you not run into problems with the dry hookset if you have to make up for an extra foot of slide? And when tension of a fish is on that dry does it not grab and fray the line as its sliding to the stopper?

Get Video Cory. What CFO Reel is that behind You? Hardy Made or American.

A perfection loop is a fixed loop so how are you even cinching it down such that it doesn’t slip over the TSK? I was thinking that you could use an Orvis knot which can be cinched down and backed off as needed. You might not even need a surgeons if you use this knot. If a trout takes the dry, it will for sure slide down the tippet even though it’s been cinched down however it should stop at the nymph. Do you think this would be a problem. I’m obviously going to run the experiment but Im interested in your take.

I can't believe no one said 'that's what she said'..... so there, I've said it. Also, this is a fantastic idea! Thank you sir

I might have missed it but when you are dry dropping on your euro rig with sighter material, how much tippet do you have before your surgeons knot?