Multiple Fly Rigs In Fly Only Zones

[Trout Stalker]

Weaver's Tackle has the answer on their web site. Fishing tandam is legal.

[3wt]

Pretty sure an articulated fly would be considered a single fly with multiple hook points, so no they wouldn't be legal.

[jjtroutbum]

Pretty sure an articulated fly would be considered a single fly with multiple hook points, so no they wouldn't be legal.

And I would agree with your statement however, If one was to cut the point off of either of the hooks hook after construction of the fly. I think It would no longer be against the rules.

[jdmidwest]

This brings back the orignal question. An articulated fly is usually jointed with either wire or mono line. A dropper is similar to an articulated fly, just a longer attachment point....

Missouri fishing laws have always been pretty open to fishing methods as far as flyfishing goes. My favorite is fly fishing only areas that are filled with spin fisherman using jigs. I don't think that was what the original intention of the rule was supposed to be, it has just matured to what we have now. I would think the original intention was to avoid conflicts and tangles with 2 completely different styles of fishing, not skills or fish mortality. A fly fisherman casts upstream with a current and drifts a floating line with the current and requires more space. A spin fisherman can go either way, but will work fishing areas completely different. Given close quarters of a crowded trout park, it causes conflicts. Add the back casts and the false casts and things get worse.

[timsfly]

One of the local game wardens down here at R.R. told me that a fly that is tied togeather and fished as a single fly, needs to have one hook, not two, if you have two flies tied togeather with a piece of mono, tied in at the hook bend or at the eye of the fly and being fished as two seperate flies, that is what he would define as a single fly and a dropper, a fly tied at the vise and being held togeather with wire or mono, but being actually one fly, to be legal would only have one hook, not two, so you can tie them in the articulate style, but cut a hook off to make it legal.

I showed the warden a sample of each. You can use one fly and 4 droppers and still be legal in missouri, man what a mess in the net that would make. This is info I got from one of my local wardens, who is not retired, but we talked of this at length several times over the years.

[Trout Stalker]

This brings back the orignal question. An articulated fly is usually jointed with either wire or mono line. A dropper is similar to an articulated fly, just a longer attachment point....

Missouri fishing laws have always been pretty open to fishing methods as far as flyfishing goes. My favorite is fly fishing only areas that are filled with spin fisherman using jigs. I don't think that was what the original intention of the rule was supposed to be, it has just matured to what we have now. I would think the original intention was to avoid conflicts and tangles with 2 completely different styles of fishing, not skills or fish mortality. A fly fisherman casts upstream with a current and drifts a floating line with the current and requires more space. A spin fisherman can go either way, but will work fishing areas completely different. Given close quarters of a crowded trout park, it causes conflicts. Add the back casts and the false casts and things get worse.

Wouldn't it be great to have a fly rod only area.

[jjtroutbum]

Wouldn't it be great to have a fly rod only area.

I have thought over that very same idea and decided that I would not want that for the simple reason that I cant stand the bait only sections that restrict fly fishing in some of the parks. For instance some of the water in zone three a beautiful set of riffles that goes on for about a hundred yards. That I never see anyone fishing with bait. But yet I'm a criminal if I were to swing a wet or soft-hackle through the very same water. Makes me want to glue a salmon egg on a soft hackle.

[Trout Stalker]

jjtroutbum,

I have thought about using the rubber salmon eggs or rubber trout worms stuck on a hook in zone 3 in those riffles.

TS

[jdmidwest]

Well, you could use floating powerbait as an indicator and a nymph as a dropper and meet the requirements of the bait zone.......maybe.

Years ago at Bennett, I used a little cleo with a scented plastic egg or a wad of powerbait on the hook when I would spin fish the bait only zone.

[jjtroutbum]

I believe that it used to be legal to add rubber/bait to your hook and it be legal in zone three, but I think they amended the rules awhile back to exclude fly fishing completely in zone three. I may be wrong but the way I read the signs It say fly fishing is prohibited not just flies.

I'm going down for the opener and will try and ask someone with a little more insight than myself.

Might wanna create another thread for this later topic so that others may participate in it. Instead of the topic getting lost in one about Droppers.