Nymphing

Nymphing

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Nymphs mean year-round flyfishing. Well that’s very good but I know an expert in nymphing who will tell you that there’s more to it than just nymphing. Here’s our regular contributor and nymphing Genie... Josh Mills. “It came to me one day when I was sitting right next to my friend and we were doing the exact same thing, we were nymphing for trout. Nymphing Being that we are fishing sub surface bug imitations for like stone flies or mayflies or something like that. 80 to 90% of a trout diet or most fishes diet is subsurface. We all want to use dry flies but if you want to catch fish, you should learn how to nymph. He and I were virtually fishing the same system with a bobber, with some weights and 2 different bigger like a stone fly followed by a Copper John and I am catching two to one over him. But I had one more piece of lead and him, one more split shot, or whatever you are using to get the bait down. It wasn’t so much that dead drift but that my weight got it down faster and into the zone where the fish were living and eating than him. He was missing the area by 6 inches to a foot. That extra bit of lead product down into the zone where the fish were keyed into an looking for a tumbling stone fly coming through the current. The minute we put on that extra piece of split shot he started catching fish. So you will find that if you are not kicking the bottom with your lead, if you are not hanging up occasionally even if you are donating a few flies to the bottom of the river, you might want to add a little bit more, I think it will increase your catch rate.
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