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Howdy, J.
Not sure exactly what you are asking, but I’ll take a stab at it.
Keeping the leader too tight will prevent the fly from sinking out to depth, but tension on the leader can be an effective technique in controlling depth, for instance in a shallow flat and then relaxing tension as the rig reaches the drop off.
Several kinds of drag can be going on. If I’m fishing in moderate current, I’ll mend at the presentation to put a few feet of leader and line directly upstream of the indicator. Then I maintain the drift with mends in the middle of the line and at the rod tip. This takes care of the horizontal surface drag on the line.
Vertical drag is caused by differences in current speed in the water column. To counter this, nymphers pay attention to balance in the leader and the fly. Thin leader is less affected by vertical drag. Too much split shot or weight of the fly can constantly hang the fly on the bottom or keep it close to the slow current on the bottom where it slows the drift too much and your indicator races ahead. Too little split shot or weight can allow the fly to be subject to whimsical currents and also make for an unnatural presentation.
It takes a good deal of experimentation and observation to know how to maintain a good balance in your nymph rig, and this is all dependent on the run and currents in the run, so it’s a very relative thing.
Hope this helps some,
ScottGreat report as always, Cameron. I liked the Tenkara Ayu rod concept. Throw back to colonial fly-fishing.
Next you’ll be making your own hooks–or worse, splitting your own Carolina heartwood for rod pieces. Fiberglass is just a stage :-).
John Michael:
I have the 70-200L 2.8 USM. You will lose two or three f-stops with the 2x converter making it 5.6 as you noted. In fact, when you put the 2x extender on a 30D, the default f-Stop is 5.6. Image quality will degrade more as Buzz noted. I went that route because of price and so I could add single objective lenses later. I believe Canon no longer makes this lens although it is still available. The replacement with IS is now a $2000 lens as you probably know.
Samples:
Samples with 2x converter:
Samples with converter and cropped:
Not an easy decision. But if you think ahead to what you want your system to look like down the road, you’ll be happy.
Nice flies. I like the top one.
reminds me of what our local pattern was last year on the central pa cicada emergence.
This is what we used:
easy tie.Kalvin, save yours up. only 16 more to go. sigh.
RIO for trout
Maxima Chameleon for steelhead and streamers leader main sections
Scientific anglers saltwater/hard nylon for big poppers, bass,etc.I don’t use any flourocarbon.
A few history notes on items I’ve run across recently that relate:
Zach, there were French and Spanish land grant claims in Arkansas. They only amounted to about 1% of Arkansas’ total land area. Most of these claims were around the early decades of the 1800s. A descendant of John Law actually claimed all of Arkansas on the basis of Louis XV’s grant. He was unsuccessful.
I’ve read that there was data to believe individuals would readily travel 200 miles to find good fishing in the 1920s. The trend continues to today and seems to be related to American’s love affair with the automobile.
Although, my father-in-law says his grandfather would load up the family in the wagon and travel across the Arkansas River a few days to the Fourche La Fave to spend 4-5 days fishing even though there were places closer to fish.
Road trips and fishing. They just seem to go together, Tim.
