Here is a video that I found very helpful. It summarizes the trade offs between fluorocarbon and monofilament. Hope you also find it interesting. The next time I’m out fishing dries on technical waters, I may add a bit of fluoro to the end of my dry-fly rig.
Category: Rigs and leaders
My Revised Euronymphing Leader
10/4/18 edit: I’ve started playing with thin Euronymphing leaders, which supposedly are better. Details here. For your convenience, here are the formulas (and, links to materials): Part of the fun, and challenge, of tightline nymphing is that there are no standards. You ask two competition anglers about how they construct their leaders, for example,
Homemade Fly Fishing Leaders
I’ve done a great deal of tightline (or, Euro-style) nymphing. But, I am now trying to make more progress with my dry-fly fishing. One of the best dry fly anglers I’ve ever met makes his own leaders. Once I heard that, I knew I had to take a look. I’ve tried a few leaders and
Dries or Die
I was fishing next to a very experienced angler. He fishes only dries. In fact, he doesn’t own any nymphs. He gave them all away some decades ago, to force himself to master dry-fly fishing. “A lifetime of learning,” he said. That got me thinking about things. I’ll always be into tightline nymphing, and so,