Wet Flies and Streamer Question

[todd woodcroft]

Seeing as how my last post was answered and I learned a lot, I thought I would test my luck and ask another question….
Recently learned a little bit about wet flies and streamers, which I typically don’t fish with…..
Should I use split shot and strike indicators for both?
I haven’t really used any weight with streamers, but I have had strike indicators….

PS: I fish mostly in Wisconsin and Minnesota…..

Thanks in advance!

Todd

[Eric Weller]

wet flies are to be fished on the swing.

[dustin bunch]

As far as streamers go there are many effective methods to use. I have fished them dead drifted under an indicator with success, but it is kind of boring. I really like the jerk-strip-retrieve method which can be very visual and deadly at times. It is usually fished on a full sink or a sink tip line using unweighted streamers.

-DB

[Randy Kadish]

In shallower water I fish streamers with a floating line, sometimes with a split shot.

The only time I’d use and indicator with a streamer is if I were dead-drifting.

Randy

[todd woodcroft]

thanks gentlemen,
i appreciate it!

[david knapp]

Don’t overlook fishing classic wet flies as a standard nymph.

[Mike Cline]

Todd,

If you are serious about traditional Wet Fly fishing, then I commend to you to read: Wet Flies by Dave Hughes (1995) and all of Slyvester Nemes books on Soft Hackles.  Follow those guys advice and you’ll catch fish on Wet Flies.

[todd woodcroft]

well i haven’t been called “tood” since a mis-spell on my peewee hockey jacket, i will look up those books for sure….
i assume amazon has them…..

thanks mike!

[Rob Snowhite]

I fish a lot of heavily weighted streamers.
I fish them with a floating line, a long leader, tied on with a loop knot, and use split shot in this order: 2bb –> 1 3/0 –> 2 3/0 (increasing size as needed)

I don’t normally dead drift them but do so every now and then. I will sometimes tie on a nymph dropper where legal.

[Mike Cline]

well i haven’t been called “tood” since a mis-spell on my peewee hockey jacket, i will look up those books for sure….
i assume amazon has them…..

thanks mike!

Sorry for the senior moment :-[

If you want to own copies and are not hung up on NEW copies then search for them on abebooks.com.

[todd woodcroft]

rob and mike
thanks a ton…sincerely….
i am learning a ton reading these and all posts….
gonna be out early in Wisconsin on the Rush on weds and will try these tactics…

thanks for the book idea to: i will check that site out….

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