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,
Fly Tying Ideas and Amazing Fish
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Devin Olsen (@tactical_flyfisher) I engage a great deal with social media, but only recently jumped on Instagram. It is so much better for fly fishing than other digital properties. You can follow some famous anglers, savvy local tightliners, and see what people are catching and
Tightline Nymphing for Steelhead
Up above, is a very cool video. I find that the older New Fly Fisher videos can be hit or miss, but, they seem more informative these days. This video is about tightlining for steelhead. They cover the rig in the early part of the video, and there’s a very nice fish landed towards the
Christmas on the Swift
Fished the Swift on Christmas Day. This time of year tailwater trout is about the only fly fishing available without getting on an airplane, except maybe some unfrozen ponds here in eastern Mass and down on the Cape (something I’d really like to try one of these days!). My Christmas day tradition for the last