Styles Of Nymphing

[ozark trout fisher]

Thanks for the advice... The sight casting method will work fine in the parks, but I may have to look for other ways when I fish waters where the water isn't so smooth topped, or where the fish are just too wary to sight cast to. I think I'm gonna try to learn how to Czech nymph, but it's gonna take awhile before I'm proficient at it.

I only say this, because in some of the streams I fish, trout seem to spend a lot more time in the riffles than the pools, and they stay hidden pretty well.

[3wt]

Yeah, Brian's probably right on here. If you only cast at fish you see you are missing the best spots. I rarely ever see a fish before I catch it on the Current. I will also tell you that at Montauk there are a lot more resident fish than most give credit for. The thing is pure sight fisherman won't ever bother unless they see a swarm.

I love sight fishing as much as the next guy, but my best days of fishing were spent carefully coaxing fish out of spots that were tough to cast to - the kind where you get one or two tries to get a suspected fish to see your fly before they get wise.

I'm also a mediocre nympher looking to get better. My best luck so far is basically using dry + nymph rigs. You get less bored using a dry as your indicator and it requires a bit more technique. I'll have to look into czech nymphing though.