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You can fish tight line to the indicator style with a Micro Mono Rig instead of a Standard, but here’s what you’ll be giving up. Here’s what you’re losing . . . Last week, I published a Fish and Film video that highlighted the remarkable effectiveness of a tight line...
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There is not just just one way to dead drift a nymph. There are real bugs down there, doing different things. And by really thinking through what our goals are with a nymph, our possibilities for how we present the flies — in a dead drift — are almost limitless.
The strike zone is a cushion of water near the bottom, and it’s where all good things happen in a river. The concept of locating the strike zone is absolutely game changing for a nymphing game.
When we learn to find contact and read the sighter, we’re no longer guessing about where the flies are. We know where they are, and we control where they’ll go next.
With a tight line rig, we’re no longer hoping something will happen. We’re making it happen. And that knowledge really l begins with finding contact and reading the sighter.
Many of these nine essential skills happen within the first couple seconds of the presentation — often less. And immediately after we stick the landing on the sighter (putting it in the perfect angle and height) we must begin recovering slack, to gain control of the system and keep it.
In this video, we highlight three different ways to recover slack and talk about why combining all of them is so important.
Part of what distinguishes fly fishing from other styles of fishing is retrieving line by hand. But then we need to get the line back out there. When should we shoot the line back through the rod guides? No one ever seems to talk about these options. But there are four of them.
We can shoot line on the pickup, on the backcast, on the forward cast and on the forward cast following the power stroke . . .
Sticking the landing is about putting the sighter in the perfect position for a great drift. The fly hits, tippet enters, and the sighter sets up in the air at an angle. Sticking the landing puts us in immediate control and it enhances strike detection.
Tight line drifts are short, so the entry of the fly must be efficient. Line on the water takes away our control, so everything drags. But sticking the landing maximizes our control from the beginning and sets up an efficient and effective drift of the nymph.