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How many people out there add weight to their nymphs when tying vs. adding weight to the leader when fishing? IYO, what are the advantages or disadvantages to both methods? I realize that in some areas, adding weight to the leader isn't legal.
Question by backcast. Uploaded on March 02, 2011
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Don't like much wt...destroys the movement of a fly. I will bead head them though...just enough wt. to break the surface when my sinking line is going down..I would use a split shot before I would use much wt. on the fly.
I've always had better luck with a weighted (internal to the tie)nymph than one sunk with a split shot. I think the weighted nymph has a more natural movement when drifting along near the bottom.
In clear moving water I've watched salmon follow the weighted nymph along the bottom for a short distance and then strike. I think if you watch the movement of a nymph behind a split shot, you'll see a very different, faster action in the current. IMHO I think that movement isn't as realistic.
I don't know I will have to try it though because I'm a total greenhorn to the sport so I might as well tr just about everything.
Ill have to try that, I did't even think about that.
NHshtr...Shot pounces on bottom, makes it pause putting the fly tied say 18" in front of the shot ahead of the shot downstream, moving just off the bottom, and slightly slower than the current.
NHshtr...If you use lead on the leader, say 12"-18" above the fly, the lead hits, ticks along the bottom, and the hit results in a pause fishing the fly slightly slower than the current allowing the fly to run downriver below the lead..the fly then runs just off the bottom if not wt'd. It is a deadly technique for steelhead, and also for trout.
NHshtr...run lead up leader above a fly, and the lead ticks the bottom pausing the fly, and fishing it slightly slower than the current..Fly fishes just off the bottom..deadly for steelhead, salmon, and trout.
Hshtr...run lead up leader above a fly, and the lead ticks the bottom pausing the fly, and fishing it slightly slower than the current..Fly fishes just off the bottom..deadly for steelhead, salmon, and trout.
Hshtr...run lead up leader above a fly, and the lead ticks the bottom pausing the fly, and fishing it slightly slower than the current..Fly fishes just off the bottom..deadly for steelhead, salmon, and trout.
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Don't like much wt...destroys the movement of a fly. I will bead head them though...just enough wt. to break the surface when my sinking line is going down..I would use a split shot before I would use much wt. on the fly.
I've always had better luck with a weighted (internal to the tie)nymph than one sunk with a split shot. I think the weighted nymph has a more natural movement when drifting along near the bottom.
In clear moving water I've watched salmon follow the weighted nymph along the bottom for a short distance and then strike. I think if you watch the movement of a nymph behind a split shot, you'll see a very different, faster action in the current. IMHO I think that movement isn't as realistic.
I don't know I will have to try it though because I'm a total greenhorn to the sport so I might as well tr just about everything.
Ill have to try that, I did't even think about that.
NHshtr...Shot pounces on bottom, makes it pause putting the fly tied say 18" in front of the shot ahead of the shot downstream, moving just off the bottom, and slightly slower than the current.
NHshtr...If you use lead on the leader, say 12"-18" above the fly, the lead hits, ticks along the bottom, and the hit results in a pause fishing the fly slightly slower than the current allowing the fly to run downriver below the lead..the fly then runs just off the bottom if not wt'd. It is a deadly technique for steelhead, and also for trout.
NHshtr...run lead up leader above a fly, and the lead ticks the bottom pausing the fly, and fishing it slightly slower than the current..Fly fishes just off the bottom..deadly for steelhead, salmon, and trout.
Hshtr...run lead up leader above a fly, and the lead ticks the bottom pausing the fly, and fishing it slightly slower than the current..Fly fishes just off the bottom..deadly for steelhead, salmon, and trout.
Hshtr...run lead up leader above a fly, and the lead ticks the bottom pausing the fly, and fishing it slightly slower than the current..Fly fishes just off the bottom..deadly for steelhead, salmon, and trout.
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