03-22-2014, 05:11 PM
As everyone else has mentioned, late hookset, or undetected hookset. Increase your sensitivity by changing your rig, or the way you mend your line. Change your rig by adding just a little more weight, move your indicator a little closer to your flies, or use a smaller more sensitive indicator. Depends on the hole your fishing. Experiment.
Mending your line too much or improper mending can create slack between your flies. Get a few good mends at the very beginning of your drifts and leave it. Dont mend unsless you see a little wake created by your indicator. Over-mending can put the brakes on your indicator. To keep your indicator fully downstream keep your line downsteam of the indicator. Sometimes developing the tiniest of a downstream belly can help keep things "in touch" but you run the risk of pulling your flies off the bottom or too fast through the water. So its a balancing act.
As well retying your rig with a longer overall leader, but maintaining the same distance from your flies/weight/ indicator. Only increasing the distance between your indicator and the end of your fly line. The angler has great control if the indicator is close to the end of the fly line, but this can create a lot of downstream drag on your indicator. If your fly line is too close to your indicator the thick profile of the floating fly line on the surface can create a lot of down stream pull on your indicator. This can cause the rig not to get to the desired depth, or excessive mending by the angler. Keeping a gap of leader between around 18 inches between fly line and indicator can allow that thinner slicker leader to cut through those surface currents. As well the leader does not "stick" to the water surface like fly line does. This allows the angler to mend the less, and more effectively because the indicator is less likely to be disturbed by a mended line.
Bounce/ drop shot rigs will not foul fish quite as easily as a traditional inline rig will, but the bounce rig is not always the best rig for any given fishing scenario.
Thanks for the catching report.
Try nymphing with a 10 foot rod sometime too.
[signature]
Mending your line too much or improper mending can create slack between your flies. Get a few good mends at the very beginning of your drifts and leave it. Dont mend unsless you see a little wake created by your indicator. Over-mending can put the brakes on your indicator. To keep your indicator fully downstream keep your line downsteam of the indicator. Sometimes developing the tiniest of a downstream belly can help keep things "in touch" but you run the risk of pulling your flies off the bottom or too fast through the water. So its a balancing act.
As well retying your rig with a longer overall leader, but maintaining the same distance from your flies/weight/ indicator. Only increasing the distance between your indicator and the end of your fly line. The angler has great control if the indicator is close to the end of the fly line, but this can create a lot of downstream drag on your indicator. If your fly line is too close to your indicator the thick profile of the floating fly line on the surface can create a lot of down stream pull on your indicator. This can cause the rig not to get to the desired depth, or excessive mending by the angler. Keeping a gap of leader between around 18 inches between fly line and indicator can allow that thinner slicker leader to cut through those surface currents. As well the leader does not "stick" to the water surface like fly line does. This allows the angler to mend the less, and more effectively because the indicator is less likely to be disturbed by a mended line.
Bounce/ drop shot rigs will not foul fish quite as easily as a traditional inline rig will, but the bounce rig is not always the best rig for any given fishing scenario.
Thanks for the catching report.
Try nymphing with a 10 foot rod sometime too.
[signature]