That might have been me. Forgive the ignorance of these questions, but I've been flying fishing for dogs for about all of 2 hours in my life, I could use some help.

I'm using an 8 weight rod with floating line that has approx 10' of the weight-forward sinking line.

How long of a tippet/leader do I need to run?

Can I just use a solid piece of mono instead of a real tippet?

The flies I am tossing out are huge and heavy. Getting to the bottom is not a problem as I seem to hang up on every cast.

Should I be quarter casting and mending?Should I be casting and fast retrieving? Should I be doing a combo of both?

At best, I've pulled out a few nice dollies and managed to only snag some dogs in the back or tail. Would really like to hook a dog in the mouth with fly.

Parker
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T.K. Paker