flyI4
Fishizzle, I use worms but I'm looking to upgrade!
Its that time of year that I always start thinking about nymphing techniques because there are few dry fly opportunities ,but I want to fish anyway so I suck it up. When it comes to nymphing, I'm not really a purist about not liking it and dont consider it a lower level of fishing, its more so that I just find "tight line nymphing" and euro style nymphing to be so incredibly boring that I literally dont want to fish anymore after fishing that way for a couple hours. Admittedly, it has been an effective method for pocket water for me in the past ,but I still find it boring even when catching fish, because the total lack of casting and hovering over some bucket with your leader out and no/little fly line out takes the funnest part of the sport away from me- the cast.
So, I stubbornly stick to indy style nymphing because at least there is that visual element of seeing the indy go down that somewhat makes me tuned in and take a higher level of interest in what I'm doing. In fishing indy style, I build my own leaders to reduce drag from a heavy butt section, and usually use a small amount of split shot, which I will gradually increase if I don't think I'm getting down. This setup is your classic larger river nymphing setup for riffles that gradually slow and enter a pool. With the euro nymphing setup, I realize that the way to get down is typically through heavy flies (either heavy beads, lead body flies, ect). However, I usually don't tie flies with lead underneath the body, and very rarely use a tungsted bead on my nymphs, which I am going to experiment more with this year. I was hoping to get some insight from guys on the site that use heavy weighted nymphs rather than splitshot on an indy set up. Do you use beads or lead wrapped bodies? Do you use split shot and heavy weighted flies at the same time? I sometimes think that the split shot kills the drift in small streams where it gets hung up alot, which is why I am considering switching over to weighted nymphs for smaller to mid-sized streams.
So, I stubbornly stick to indy style nymphing because at least there is that visual element of seeing the indy go down that somewhat makes me tuned in and take a higher level of interest in what I'm doing. In fishing indy style, I build my own leaders to reduce drag from a heavy butt section, and usually use a small amount of split shot, which I will gradually increase if I don't think I'm getting down. This setup is your classic larger river nymphing setup for riffles that gradually slow and enter a pool. With the euro nymphing setup, I realize that the way to get down is typically through heavy flies (either heavy beads, lead body flies, ect). However, I usually don't tie flies with lead underneath the body, and very rarely use a tungsted bead on my nymphs, which I am going to experiment more with this year. I was hoping to get some insight from guys on the site that use heavy weighted nymphs rather than splitshot on an indy set up. Do you use beads or lead wrapped bodies? Do you use split shot and heavy weighted flies at the same time? I sometimes think that the split shot kills the drift in small streams where it gets hung up alot, which is why I am considering switching over to weighted nymphs for smaller to mid-sized streams.