Strike Indicators
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A ‘what?’ from a day on the river last week. The river I was fishing was clear enough to see the bottom, about 6′ deep. I could see the top nymph but it was kinda hard to see the bottom one, a size 18 midge three feet down. I saw a fish swim by about where the bottom fly should be. He started going through the ‘I am hooked’ convulsions. What seemed like an eternity later, the strike indicator moved. A couple of casts later, the same thing happened again. Makes me wonder how many strikes I have missed.
If you can see the fish, by all means react to that because sometimes they do hit without instantly moving the indicator.
With some trout, you will learn to set the hook, when you see the flash of their belly, not if the indicator moves down.
Bernie,
Try playing with different types of indicators. If I am going out for a day of dedicated nymphing I will use the indicators that look like tiny hollow tube and jam them on my leader knots. THis in effect gives me 4-5 individual strike indicators with very little need to move stuff around on my leader. Teh up shot being the closer you indicator is to the hook the more readily it will indicate a take. If you nymph enough you will quickly develope an instinctive feel for when a fish has taken you fly and never assume that a wiggle in you leader was “just a rock” gently set on every twitch of the leader (not just the indicator). YOu’ll be surprised how many “rocks” look and fight just like trout.
JW
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