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Fishing the proper depth
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davethetrout
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If it was consistant,wouldnt everybody do it? I love nymph`n too but fishin aint ever 100% except at a paypond
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Sonny,
That's a good question! ........... :dizzy:
I just bought and read most of Rick Hafele's book/dvd: Nymph-Fishing, Rivers and streams.
I would generally say....... you have to fish the fly-pattern at the depth you expect the natural insect to be at.
You may be fishing your pattern at the right depth, but the fish are not feeding on that insect............ that's a possibility!
To be sucessful ( according to Rick), you have to determine what the fish are feeding on( where you are presently fishing), and fish that pattern at the proper depth.
That is what I learned from the book/dvd.
*Edit...... if you assume all fish are feeding on the bottom, you would assume wrong!
Qg.
That's a good question! ........... :dizzy:
I just bought and read most of Rick Hafele's book/dvd: Nymph-Fishing, Rivers and streams.
I would generally say....... you have to fish the fly-pattern at the depth you expect the natural insect to be at.
You may be fishing your pattern at the right depth, but the fish are not feeding on that insect............ that's a possibility!
To be sucessful ( according to Rick), you have to determine what the fish are feeding on( where you are presently fishing), and fish that pattern at the proper depth.
That is what I learned from the book/dvd.
*Edit...... if you assume all fish are feeding on the bottom, you would assume wrong!
Qg.
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First, I would try using a indicator. If you are not ticking bottom the indictor is not set high enough or you need to add more weight. I don't like fishing with weight but you usually need to get the nymphs close to the bottom. Many a time I've fished a good looking stretch of water with no success, added some weight and I start getting into trout. You have to experiment with weight and indicator height. You want to tick the bottom but not hang up. Oh, if you have it right you will snag the bottom sometimes, but thats the way it goes. Hope this helps.
Karel
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I had a lot of problems getting into nymphing, now it's my favorite. Basically, if you don't hook up bottom and lose flies from time to time, you're not fishing where the fish are. Of course, you might have to adjust weight and depth when you move from pool to pool. Try to gauge how deep it is and then add some to the distance from your weight to the strike indicator.
Nymph fishing is a pain in the butt!!
Effective? You bet!
Fun? Not when you have to do a lot of prospecting. Not for me anyway. However, when they nymph bite is on, and you've got the depth/drift/fly figured out, it is, in a word: killing. Probably the most effective and efficient way of taking trout.
Just not my favorite.
Effective? You bet!
Fun? Not when you have to do a lot of prospecting. Not for me anyway. However, when they nymph bite is on, and you've got the depth/drift/fly figured out, it is, in a word: killing. Probably the most effective and efficient way of taking trout.
Just not my favorite.
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