Techniques

[brittsnbirds]

I'm asking this question with tongue in cheek. What techniques do you guys use when you fish your Copper Johns, BH hares Ear and other flies of this sort?

I've drifted them under indicators and tightlined but feel I need to work on my technique as I'm not that productive with these. I know they catch fish but think it's my presentation.

Any suggestions?

[Guest flyfishBDS]

Call me a traditionalist but I never tightline nymphs like CJs

Subsurface nymph presentations come back to 2 principles, depth and speed. I had a late introduction to this as a former dry fly addict

You want the fly where the fish are feeding, mostly that's the bottom 1-3", mostly at the speed of drift no faster.

Drag will lift your flies up from the correct depth, impart too much speed and screw up the direction of drift.

Faster currents mean more weight and/or distance fly to indicator to get down to the zone.

Mending, putting slack line to counter different current speed, both allows the fly to get down and keep it there at the right speed.

Lots of variables in this stuff and of coruse with fly fishing there is always variables like fishign easting swining or even stripped nymphs etc etc.

Cheers

Steve