To Indicator Or Not To Indicator

[flyrodman]

:Sigh:

I stand alone, as usual...

If i could really learn to do without an indicator, i would stand with you, for now, i choose indicator

[FishinCricket]

If i could really learn to do without an indicator, i would stand with you, for now, i choose indicator

I started out with no indicator, but only cause I'm just that cheap... lol

[flyrodman]

I started out with no indicator, but only cause I'm just that cheap... lol

I guess that would have helped

[ozark trout fisher]

I started out with no indicator, but only cause I'm just that cheap... lol

I did too. For the first couple months or so that I started fly fishing for trout my sole nymphing method was the down and across swing; that doesn't usually give you any kind of a dead drift but also lets you feel a strike easily.Although that's not my main nymphing method anymore, it's actually not that bad of a way to go, and plenty of trout can be caught that way. Frankly I never tried any other way until I decided to try indicator nymphing one time down on the Current and got hooked on that for awhile.

[Al Agnew]

I use an indicator at any time where I'm having to make casts of any significant length to reach where I want to drift. I don't use one when I'm fishing close enough that I don't have to keep a lot of fly line on the water, but that isn't often, because I usually don't bother to take the indicator off if I come to a spot like that.

I'm not sure what the problem is with indicators. If you can fish close, more or less tight line, where you can feel the fish more often than seeing the line tick or hesitate, that's probably the most efficient way to go. But fishing with an indicator presents its own set of challenges, not the least of which is the kind of very quick reflexes you usually have to have to get the hook set before the fish rejects the fly.

[FishinCricket]

I use an indicator at any time where I'm having to make casts of any significant length to reach where I want to drift. I don't use one when I'm fishing close enough that I don't have to keep a lot of fly line on the water, but that isn't often, because I usually don't bother to take the indicator off if I come to a spot like that.

Guess that pretty well sums it up for me, too...

But it's not that I'm a snob or anything, I just think the "bobber" complicates the process.. (and I find it absolutely hilarious when people refuse to call the thingymabobber a "bobber".. I'd even admit that there are some "indicators" that don't fit the general idea of what a bobber is, but the thingymabobber isn't one of them! lol)

It's still my contention that too darn many fly fisherman take things to darn seriously... :biggrin:

[ozark trout fisher]

It's still my contention that too darn many fly fisherman take things to darn seriously... :biggrin:

I find it hard to argue with that.

I have been guilty of it before, but I'm getting better. Honestly...

[Danoinark]

It's still my contention that too damned many fly fisherman take things to damned seriously... :biggrin:

Surely you jest, Cricketeer?

[duckydoty]

I will use a bobber in slow moving water, usually a stimulator pattern.

[mic]

I'd tie on my underwear if I thought it would help me catch fish...