How do you attach a dropper?

[Dryrod]

[font "Poor Richard"][green][size 3]I seldom use the tandem hookup so my expertise is limited. I always thought that the dropper was the trailing fly in the setup. I wondered about attaching the trailing tippet to the bend of the first fly’s hook. Would think that it would interfere with a fiche’s ability to take the fly straight on. Under this impression true or not, I prefer to use a surgeons knot to tap a tippet onto the leader. On the leader’s tab end goes my first fly and on the tippet maybe 12 to 18” past the first fly I attach my dropper or what ever one wants to call the second fly in the tandem. Any one ever use this setup?[/size][/green][/font]
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