06-26-2010, 06:49 AM
Hey Sinergy,
I clarified in the other post that I typically use a bh nymphs,typically tungsted when I said I added weight occasionally I meant extra weight. Tungsted tends to keep the fly down bouncing the bottom in all but the fastest currents really well. I guess the stopping between cast and then spending a few seconds adjusting the rig and recasting seems like a lot of time to me over hundreds of holes and thousands of changing conditions. But this may depend not only on your patience, the variability of the river conditions and how much water you cover. Most people fishing this type of rig I see stay and fish an area much longer than I do. This in itself almost always leads to slower catching. There are exceptions of course. There is nothing but the extra time of the many hundred/thousands of times interrupting your casting and fishing to adjust your rig to stop them from moving on like me. Uninterrupted casting and drifting also frequently takes seconds on small streams so it's all relative. One critical issue you didn't address is despite its greater visibility with 2 flies is the quality of the drift offsets strikes considerable resulting in a lot more fish just taking a look. The other thing is we may just fish a different proportion of types of streams. Pro guides certainly tend to take clients mainly fish a very few of our streams that typically are the larger of our relatively small ones. They are places that the masses can fish easily. I only fish these places when there aren't good other options and just avoid them the other 70% of the year. They don't tend to cover large areas on foot. Casting techniques for this type of fishing is not going to be ideal for many other streams they don't visit often.
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I clarified in the other post that I typically use a bh nymphs,typically tungsted when I said I added weight occasionally I meant extra weight. Tungsted tends to keep the fly down bouncing the bottom in all but the fastest currents really well. I guess the stopping between cast and then spending a few seconds adjusting the rig and recasting seems like a lot of time to me over hundreds of holes and thousands of changing conditions. But this may depend not only on your patience, the variability of the river conditions and how much water you cover. Most people fishing this type of rig I see stay and fish an area much longer than I do. This in itself almost always leads to slower catching. There are exceptions of course. There is nothing but the extra time of the many hundred/thousands of times interrupting your casting and fishing to adjust your rig to stop them from moving on like me. Uninterrupted casting and drifting also frequently takes seconds on small streams so it's all relative. One critical issue you didn't address is despite its greater visibility with 2 flies is the quality of the drift offsets strikes considerable resulting in a lot more fish just taking a look. The other thing is we may just fish a different proportion of types of streams. Pro guides certainly tend to take clients mainly fish a very few of our streams that typically are the larger of our relatively small ones. They are places that the masses can fish easily. I only fish these places when there aren't good other options and just avoid them the other 70% of the year. They don't tend to cover large areas on foot. Casting techniques for this type of fishing is not going to be ideal for many other streams they don't visit often.
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