01-19-2022, 07:04 PM
(01-16-2022, 02:31 PM)RockyRaab2 Wrote: A not-so secret I used to do was to tie a hare's ear nymph into the line about a foot above my jig or spoon, a kind of "ice drop shot". The fly caught a lot of fish. One problem was that the fly sometimes caught on the edge of the hole when fighting a fish that took the jig. If I gave an inch or two of slack, the fish would sometimes pull the fly loose, but also would sometimes get loose itself. Seemed to lose about a third of them, but counting the times the fly didn't catch the hole edge, overall landed most.
Good plan! I've done the same thing with a fly, but also used a tiny, wiggly soft plastic on a little light wire hook "drop-shotted" the same way.