The Big Ploppa is designed to hold massive amounts of weight for dry/dropper rigs! Typically, when our March Browns are hatching in VA, we higher water flows. This means you need a heavy fly that can get down to the bottom.
There you stand knee deep in water. Thirty feet away, you see the splashy rise of a trout. You swiftly pull out line and punch your cast where you think that fish was. The fly rips through the air and splats down. She floats by and…nothing. You repeat the process several more times - nothing. You shrug it off and assume that fish just didn’t want your bug.
A more likely assumption is that your fly was nowhere near that trout.
I have been playing around consistently with over-lining rods for over fiveyears now, and have found some of the good and the bad of practicing it. I’ve used this method primarily on very small to medium sized streams, so that’s what I will focus on here.