Eric Weller
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While fishing out in Montana this fall Kelly Gallop showed me how to nymph effectively with his setup. With whatever leader you use this is how the fly and weight is set. If you are fishing with just one fly, put your weight at the very bottom of your leader. We attached tippet with perfection loops to the leader, a small knot on the bottom and then the weight just above the knot. Then with your perfection loop being approximately 1 1/2 feet to 2 feet above the weight, tie in a with a slip loop above the perfection loops a strand of 8 inch tippet material. Tie your fly off of this “dropper”. It is very similiar to a salt water rig you buy for surf fishing. The other variation is to tie in a fly at the bottom of the leader with a spilit shot 8 inches above and then the dropper fly. This rig proved deadly. No lag time for the indicator to show any strikes. The indicator was the same, 1.5 time the depth of the water. The beauty of the this rig is you can set your fly on the dropper at different depths to see where the fish are taking. I used it exclusively on the Madison and had numerous more takes and hook ups!
I recently tied up some baetis without wings and with a little gray zylon to add some flash of a wing.
Pick up Ted Fauceglia’s “Mayflies”, the photography is awesome. You can’t beat Gierach and his books. I love all of them. Boy if I had to list all of my books here, this would become a book! I am always looking for a good read on fly fishing, so I think I’ll grab Pale morning Done. Sounds good!
Troop
