Using Wet Flies & Nymphs - How To - The New Fly Fisher
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Date: 2022-05-15
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Seth
i just started fly fishing this year, im hooked! been going out every day before or after work. I had always loved setting up a dry fly with dropper nymphs. which worked pretty nicely. i liked how it gave me two opportunities to catch a fish, both above the surface and below the service. Today i tried something different and used a large nymph and a strike indicator, good god! ive never had such a day. Went out for an early morning fish and an afternoon fish, using the large nymph and strike indicator both times. I put double digit number of fish in the net, and had probably 25+ fish on the line. Man i felt like i was cheating, there were a bunch of other fishers using traditional rods and reels with spoons or worms who werent catching anything, meanwhile i was putting a fish on the line almost ever cast. what a day it was!
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i just started fly fishing this year, im hooked! been going out every day before or after work. I had always loved setting up a dry fly with dropper nymphs. which worked pretty nicely. i liked how it gave me two opportunities to catch a fish, both above the surface and below the service. Today i tried something different and used a large nymph and a strike indicator, good god! ive never had such a day. Went out for an early morning fish and an afternoon fish, using the large nymph and strike indicator both times. I put double digit number of fish in the net, and had probably 25+ fish on the line. Man i felt like i was cheating, there were a bunch of other fishers using traditional rods and reels with spoons or worms who werent catching anything, meanwhile i was putting a fish on the line almost ever cast. what a day it was!
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Mark
I grew up using tiny leaf worms for trout. There was never a mistake strike. Very aggressive.
I can't count the number of fish I must have missed when I switched to nymphing. Strikes only lasted a fraction of a second because I was waiting for the indicator to take off. I always assumed I was just hitting bottom.
Same thing for drift. Someone left a bag of tiny marshmallows that was leaking them into the stream. 1 or 2 every couple minutes. Obviously they had a perfect drift and caused a rise in a specific spot.
I must have cast 100 times there with no result because my drift was wrong.
Once I figured it out, was completely different.
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I grew up using tiny leaf worms for trout. There was never a mistake strike. Very aggressive.
I can't count the number of fish I must have missed when I switched to nymphing. Strikes only lasted a fraction of a second because I was waiting for the indicator to take off. I always assumed I was just hitting bottom.
Same thing for drift. Someone left a bag of tiny marshmallows that was leaking them into the stream. 1 or 2 every couple minutes. Obviously they had a perfect drift and caused a rise in a specific spot.
I must have cast 100 times there with no result because my drift was wrong.
Once I figured it out, was completely different.
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Dan
Water-loading is by far the most efficient and effective tactic when you can do it. Only other thing I would add to what Tom demonstrated is before you make the cast upstream, point your reel in the direction you want the cast to go and then cast where the reel is pointing. This a particularly good method to use when you are fishing an indicator rig with split shot because there is no false casting involved.
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Water-loading is by far the most efficient and effective tactic when you can do it. Only other thing I would add to what Tom demonstrated is before you make the cast upstream, point your reel in the direction you want the cast to go and then cast where the reel is pointing. This a particularly good method to use when you are fishing an indicator rig with split shot because there is no false casting involved.
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schmoonkie
Tom did a great job presenting nymphing in this video. I saw him doing a presentation in Denver, where he demystified fly selection. All common sense, plainly and simply delivered. My all time favorite fly fishing book is from him: Reading Trout Streams; An Orvis Guide [Tom Rosenbauer]. I can go to any unfamiliar river and read it using the information learned from that book.
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Tom did a great job presenting nymphing in this video. I saw him doing a presentation in Denver, where he demystified fly selection. All common sense, plainly and simply delivered. My all time favorite fly fishing book is from him: Reading Trout Streams; An Orvis Guide [Tom Rosenbauer]. I can go to any unfamiliar river and read it using the information learned from that book.
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David
If I didn't know better, I'd say they were fishing the Clarks Fork River in Montana just west of Missoula. Western Montana, anyway. OK in my defense, I wrote this before they said the guide is from Livingston, lol. I live about 50 miles south of there and that scenery was just too darn familiar, lol.
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If I didn't know better, I'd say they were fishing the Clarks Fork River in Montana just west of Missoula. Western Montana, anyway. OK in my defense, I wrote this before they said the guide is from Livingston, lol. I live about 50 miles south of there and that scenery was just too darn familiar, lol.
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John
Very informative and well presented video. Will try these methods this autumn for grayling on the Welsh Dee. Also want to try north country spider patterns like partridge and orange, snipe and purple, waterhen bloa.
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Very informative and well presented video. Will try these methods this autumn for grayling on the Welsh Dee. Also want to try north country spider patterns like partridge and orange, snipe and purple, waterhen bloa.
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4given
I use a cube of cucumber instead of a strike indicator. Cukes float and kind of make the water taste good but the main thing is they float so I can see drift and strike.
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I use a cube of cucumber instead of a strike indicator. Cukes float and kind of make the water taste good but the main thing is they float so I can see drift and strike.
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Therus
Thanks for posting this video. Very good information and presented very well. I will use these techniques and I dedicate the next brown trout I catch to Tom Rosenbauer.
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Thanks for posting this video. Very good information and presented very well. I will use these techniques and I dedicate the next brown trout I catch to Tom Rosenbauer.
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Nathan
yeah! I love the trout magnet bobber as an indicator. It's a very subtle indicator and the trout can't seem to feel it! Just a wonderful product overall.
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yeah! I love the trout magnet bobber as an indicator. It's a very subtle indicator and the trout can't seem to feel it! Just a wonderful product overall.
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Daniel
I always thought that this was what we in England call wet fly Nymphs also come in this category as they are underwater and not floating great vid though
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I always thought that this was what we in England call wet fly Nymphs also come in this category as they are underwater and not floating great vid though
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