How to tie 2 Flies On One Line
The 2 Fly Rig - Multiple ways - McFly Angler Fishing Tips - Back to Basics
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well hey McFly subscribers so today
we're going to go over how to set up a
to fly system
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of course before you do this check your
local River where you're gonna go fish
and make sure you can fish to fly some
say no now many of you already probably
know how to do this for some of you that
are new to fly fishing especially nymph
in this might help so again this is a to
fly nymph rig setup tapered leader
already on it I've done demonstrations
on how to get leader on to your line and
how to actually put line on your reel if
your fly low fly shop can't do it for
you go back and check those videos out
if you're interested but today we're
just setting up a to fly system let's
talk about the leader first so they make
multitude different types of leaders
you've got different sizes so anywhere
from 6 X up to you know I think 0 X 4
tapered leaders definitely a tapered
leader is important that's what helps
you roll turn those flies over when
you're when you're casting out they make
anywhere from I think seven and a half
foot depending on the company of course
but anywhere from seven and a half foot
to nine foot super-sensitive fish when
you're dry fly fish and some people like
to have like a 10 or 11 foot leader
that's up to them okay but their main
that you find at fly shops 7 1/2 2 to 9
foot most fly shops that you go to so
that's usually what you're working with
I like to keep it 9 foot and the reason
why is my rods are 9 foot if I'm fishing
a 9 foot rod and that way I'm not kind
of doing that kind of where I'm pulling
back on the rod and trying to reach out
for the fish with my net a lot of people
will just they'll get a 9 foot leader
and tie their first fly on and that's
great if I don't feel I need to fish
fluorocarbon if I do flush fish
fluorocarbon though a lot of times I
want to put a little top section of
fluorocarbon on there
they do make fluorocarbon leaders
however they're like 10 dollars each so
for me I'd rather get a nylon leader and
be able to get two or three of those for
the same price basically start with that
but I get a shorter one so you could tie
your first fly directly on to the 7.5
foot leader if you wanted or a 9 foot if
you start with nine foot however I like
taking a bit of or carbon so I match it
up this is 5x this is this is actually a
5x leader I just brought the
out to show you this is a 5 X liter and
this is 5 X is actually nylon it's not
fluorocarbon I didn't want to waste my
fluorocarbon is expensive but I'm going
to show you guys how to do this with
nylon but do the same thing with your
fluorocarbon so I like adding a tippet
of fluorocarbon leader and I'll pull out
a section you know maybe a foot and a
half long now I've got that section
there and we need to attach onto here
and what this does is it makes this
seven and a half foot leader which
that's what this says it's a 5 X of
course but it's 7.5 5 X makes that
basically a 9 foot leader but then we
got a foot and a half a fluorocarbon
makes it easier for the fish to not see
it you could do a couple different knots
now i've i've showed you guys how to do
both of these you could do either a
blood knot or a triple surgeon's so the
blood now it's going to be a little
smaller a little more inline and I think
holds a little better than the triple
surgeon's but both work just fine I'm
going to do a blood knot today
and there we go so now we've got a
little section of fluorocarbon leader
now just go with the 9 foot if you're
not doing fluorocarbon but if you do
want to attach fluorocarbon onto your
nylon this is how you would do it so as
you can see there's maybe a foot and a
half section and that would turn this
7.5 foot into a 9 foot leader right
there
and then you want to attach on your
first fly now use again when I said that
you could use either blood knot or
triple surgeon's for this knot do
whatever you are comfortable with
whatever not you're comfortable with
that attaches but those are the two I
usually use there's a couple others that
you can use to attach line you know tip
it to leader ok whatever one works best
for you that's what I do there ok and
then go ahead and attach your first fly
usually in general this is how I'm
fishing 80% of the time not always but
80% of time I attach my larger heavier
lifetimes with the bead head sometimes
not but something a little larger that
gets your fly system down so you're not
having to use as much lead or no lead
but it's up to you and it depends on
where efficient so this could change you
might want to put two small flies or a
small fly at top and then a larger fly
you're basically your lead fly might be
smaller and your tail fly might be
bigger ok
it just depends on what you're trying to
do and how you're fishing but most of
the time I'm putting on a larger lead
fly ok so this is basically the most
common easiest way to set up for me ok
then I just tie on my lead fly and I use
something called a Duncan loop but use
whatever not you're comfortable with
now the reason why I do a dunken loop is
you can see here now it's created you
might not be able to from back there but
it created a little loop what that does
is allows this fly to move around a
little bit more because of that loop
there obviously you want to trim off
your tag end and there we go there's the
first fly another reason why I do a
Dunkin loop is because I like keeping
all my knots the same I don't want to
change out knots for different types of
things so we're gonna take now a lot of
times I'll fish to my first fly if it's
a bigger fly maybe five X and then I'll
drop down to 6 X or 4x and then they've
dropped down to 5 X or whatever it may
be a lot of times I'm fishing a smaller
fly behind the bigger one this will be
the attractor this will allow the fish
to come up and take a look at it and
then I've got the smaller fly that they
usually end up hitting more often behind
it then I pull out a smaller section
this will be 6 X for instance on this
one but you can do any combo that you
want but basically pull out a bout a
foot a section here of 5x and then I do
a Duncan loop and I'll show you why
so Duncan loop is basically a slipknot
now you've got this loop and you just
slide it right over the end of your hook
and pull tight and that's on the back
end of your your fly here and clip off
that okay now that that is on the end of
that fly now you've got to decide how
long of a distance between each fly you
want I generally start off a little
longer because I can always bring this
back up without having to add another
piece of tippet so I'll do about maybe
18 inches if I have too much I just clip
off some so there we go
then I attach with that loop that Duncan
loop my next fly
there we go as you can see it creates a
little loop and allows that to move
around quite a bit that's how you attach
the flies on the to fly setup every once
in a while when doing Duncan leap you
can see there's a bit of a squirrely on
the line you might not be able to from
there but pinch the the knot that you
made you don't want to do this without
pinching the knot very tightly and then
just stroke it with your other finger
and make it straighter you've got a knot
up here you can add your lead if you
want to add your lead you can add a
little bit of lead up higher we're down
below it's up to you where you want it
but generally I like it above the knot
so I've got that extra knot there I'll
add the lead right right above that knot
and then you can add your indicator if
you're gonna fish an indicator I've got
one of these simple indicators these are
pretty easy to use simple it's hard to
see here how far away it is
but until I've got maybe four feet five
feet from that indicator if you need to
move that up and down throughout the day
if you need to fish a deeper pool you
can always just unscrew a little bit
pull that up and screw down and it's
stuck on there and that'll be deeper if
you need to go more shallow you can
always bring this down much closer to
the fly there's a couple different types
of indicators there's these bobber type
this is a airlock it's called then
there's the thingamabob errs which are
just like this except for the type of
connection it's just like a little loop
up there that you create a loop in the
the line
I like these if I'm going to fish a
bobber type there's many different types
of indicators if you want to use so I
have shown you guys this type this is
the New Zealand strike indicator and
it's it's like wool basically and this
is a little more sensitive these tend to
be a little more buoyant it's hard to
see as many strikes this is a little
more sensitive so you could use this
instead or you could go nan indicator
you could just basically fish this like
a gyro knipfing style
wanted high-sticking in a way those are
all different techniques it would be
hard for me to show you that on camera
now there's a couple ways of attaching a
to fly system so this is basically
attaching on to the tail end of this fly
there's also other ways to make a to fly
system now I do this one because I think
it's the quickest and it's pretty good
the only difference is it might make
this first initial fly swim different it
won't wiggle as much because there's
some connected to the tail some people
they will go again through the eye of
the hook and tie it on whatever knot you
want
so now you've got two flies on they're
basically dropping off the pilot of that
one however the reason why I never do
this type is because when this is
swimming along and there's any kind of
tension you can tell that this is going
to end up pulling and making this swim a
little funky it'll kind of swim off to
the side and it won't be as natural I
don't like that route if I am going to
do something in that realm this is then
it's called a dropper loop there's a
couple ways of doing it so basically
when you when you tie your blood knot
you could have just keep this tag in
long like that
you want to trim the shorter tag
tend to tie off of and this is how you
would do it if you wanted to different
weight of line so 5x and a 6x right so
now you've got this hanging off the
bottom you want to tie your larger fly
on this one and then your shorter for
your smaller fly on that one and now
you've got a dropper loop because you've
got this extra tag end so basically this
fly will be down here this fly will be
up here that's a really nice way of
doing it as well there is one other way
if you want both of those to be the same
so for instance 6x get yourself all
extra long piece of tippet and just for
times sake here I'm gonna do a triple
surgeon's
so now you've got this extra long piece
of six X if you're gonna be fluorocarbon
or not you could do something called a
dropper leak dropper loop basically you
want to give yourself a little room here
like that cross the line and I've shown
how to tie this a little more in depth
and there we go so now you've got
yourself a dropper loop and those are
very strong basically just clip one side
I don't think it matters which one and
now you've got yourself two lines coming
off tie on the two bugs that way
those are the three ways of making a to
fly system it's very simple guys very
easy to do and a lot of places it's
really good to try to fish two flies
because then you can see what they're
hitting sometimes you want to do two
different types of flies obviously red
annelid and a very large hares ear
completely different types of flies you
can see what they're willing to hit if
they want to hit bigger or smaller
whatnot another thing about that is it's
a double the ability for a fish to see
it and therefore double the hits one
thing to keep in mind though is whenever
you're fishing to fly system no matter
which type of way you set this up you
are going to tangle a little more often
with the to fly system they're great
tools to use but you will tangle more
often so it requires a little more
finesse when casting out there or
casting and you got to keep checking
these to make sure they're not tangled
up but that's pretty much the overall on
how to set up your fly on a to fly
system majority of your fishing is going
to be to fly system if you're nipping as
long as your local river allows it
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now you go catch some fish
