Thread: Floater dropper tangling issues

I do fairly well going slow but will try slower if I can. Don't know how fast I throw but I lift more than jerk so who knows. Can't hurt to try.

Here's an option I saw on another board:

For years I always used foam spiders or the smallest popper I could find. One day someone convinced me to use a hare's ear or similar nymph on a dropper below the popper. I caught 80% of the fish on the nymph, and had some tangle problems with the dropper getting tangled with the popper.

Then I went to just a nymph without the popper, and actually increased the fish-per-hour because I wasnt stopping to untangle things.

Used this in FL in salt water years ago. Slight difference was that my mentor tied his dropper line to the curve of the poppers hook. We used a nonstop popping retrieve so the dropper never affected the popper, which was dime sized face or bigger anyway. Sea Trout loved it and it helped put more fish in the cooler. 2 on at once was a hoot.