The new technique I’m going to be trying is one I’ve been curious about for a while now, and that’s the double streamer rig. The double streamer rig is where you tie a single streamer to your tippet or fishing line like you’d normally do, usually with a loop knot, and then you tie a second piece of line off the back hook of the first streamer and tie a second streamer on to that. It’s similar to how you’d tie a dry dropper, but with two streamers. There are several schools of though on this, The first being that you imitate a smaller trout, or any fish really, chasing around a baitfish which entails using a small streamer up front with a larger streamer in the back, which is mostly what I’ll be trying in this video. The second is you throw a larger streamer up front a slightly smaller streamer in the back, with the back streamer being lighter colored than the front. This in theory should look like two baitfish moving through the water with the back streamer being injured. That’s because fish when they are injured or dying they naturally lighten in color. The third is that you throw a super bright colored streamer that can get the fish’s attention and follow it with a very natural, usually slightly smaller, streamer that the fish would be more likely to eat. Regardless of which technique or idea you roll with, I was intrigued which is why I decided to test it out. And I had some unintended lessons which both made me love this technique, but also hate it a little bit.
What I discovered after fishing for wild brown trout for several hours is that I had trouble getting the rig tangled quite a bit, very similarly to what happens with a dry dropper or double nymph rig. But after several hours of fly fishing I decided the extra streamer did create an extra opportunity to try a second fly and see what the fish were biting. I'm not sure if the fish are really "imagining" the scenario that anglers make up for the double streamer rig, but the fish definitely react to the streamers regardless. It got a lot of interest but fish weren't fully willing to commit, which I chalked up to the weather conditions on that particular day. Overall I'd definitely try the new technique again, but I think it's going to work better for larger water than what I was fishing in this video.
