Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most from your time on the water.

Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing

enthusiasts Tom Rosenbauer.

Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. We have, we had a request from a couple of

listeners on multi rig

multi fly rigs and how to use some more than one fly at a time and this is sort of a new craze, but it's actually an old craze. Back in the 19th century, when people

used only wet flies, they would have from three to as many as 15 flies on a leader.

And they would throw this what they call cast of flies out there and let them swing in the

current.

Some of the flies would swing under the water and some

would kind of adapt just on the surface of the water. So they were kind of imitating emerging

flies and flies skimming across the surface and it was quite effective.

I don't think any of us want to deal with 15 flies on a leader.

It's illegal in most states anyways.

But there has been a real big boom in multi-fly rigs.

Usually this means two flies.

So again, using more than two in some places

is illegal.

And two is about all most of us want to handle at one time because it only compounds problems when it's windy, when you hook yourself, when you get flies caught in the net, and doing you and me, I think two is plenty.

So there are various types of multi-fly rigs out there.

The most common that you'll see,

one of the most common is called a dry dropper.

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