Capt. Markus Borsman-Gneist, of Mayhem charters in Stuart, demonstrates how to tie a dropper-loop rig, often called a "chicken" rig, to fish for red snapper. VIDEO: TCPalm's Boys Athlete of the Week ...

guides these days, Tom Sadler likes to boost his clients’ chances of catching trout by having them fish with two flies instead of one. He sets them up with the kind of rig known as dry dropper: one ...

A dry dropper is a two-fly rig that combines a dry fly and either a nymph or emerger, allowing you to fish on the surface and subsurface at the same time. If you’re fishing shallow water but not ...

Last Thursday, we discussed terminal knots for tying fishing line to hooks and lures. For specialty applications, you often need union knots to join different types of line, or to tie a dropper line ...