Strike Indicators
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I hate them! Up here everybody and his brother is fanatical about chironomid fishing and believe you have to use an indicator. I go out of my way to avoid them. It’s a personal thing, reminds me too much of when I was a kid fishing worms under a float.
I fished the Caney Sun with decent results. Towards the end of the day I removed my indicator and almost immediately a few nice Browns responded. My little 3/4 wt got a good workout today.
I know there are times when indicators seem to have a negative effect. For me at least, winter seems to be one of those times.
Mike
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If you’ve tried this, I apologize. But, sometime when the fishing is good and it wouldn’t be frustrating to try something different make a pile/puddle cast–some kind of in air mend that will create some slack in your line. Then, watch the belly between the last two curves before the leader. It acts just like a floating indicator. If it does anything out of the ordinary lift, the rod tip. It is a European technique that I read about several years ago and has worked for me on some very picky fish on some heavily fished waters.
Like newsman, I hate indicators and believe one can learn to be just as proficient watching and/or feeling the line.
Indicators.
I have to say, that coming from the UK, that the use of a indicator is more or less something that has generated in use here in the USA.
However the use of a dry fly as a second fly, all be it a indicator is something that was practiced way back in my homelands.Look at it like this. take away beadheads and indicators, that will leave many fly fihers to day with a big problem as for many that is the only way they know how to fish.
There are only 3 ways you can hook a fish
I, You see the indication that it has done so, either you see the fish take the fly, or you use some means to indicate to you that it has.
2. It more or less hooks itself on a tight line, as when fishing streamers and other flies against a tension between you and the fly.
3. By this means you just have a gut feeling that the fish has the fly, raise the rod and he is there.
But there are some circumstances that this does amount to a little more than that.I have not the space here to write at length, but you may find on theinternet works l have had published over the years related to this subject.
The fact of the matter is this. If you have not the means to know a fish has taken your fly, then you have little chance to hook it.
Back in the UK, we do have many techniques that are not so well known here to catch fish without the use of indicators as such. We when fishing international fly fishing events are not allowed to use them.
There is way more skill required to be able to effectively dead drift sunk flies without the use of a indicator. Way more line control is required and also a great deal more attention to how the rig is set up.
Then, you have to deal with relative distances from your stand point that make it possible to do it.
I can assure you, that fishing at longer ranges, up to 60 ft or more make fishing without some means of indication a very difficult thing to do unless you are very skilled.
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