--- On Mon, 2/16/09, George k...@msn.com wrote:
From: George k...@msn.com
Subject: [VFB] Re: Active Nymphing was QUOTE FOR THE DAY
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 10:55 AM
Absolutely Tom, I couldn't agree more with your observations. When I
started nymphing
Mike,
Some species of nymphs are swimmers, some are clingers, some are burrowers.
If he is short-stripping a nymph (but not darting), he is probably
imitiating a swimmer variety. Dead-drifting works for imitating clingers,
and also burrowers that get washed up out of the dirt. All they can do
I do a lot of nymphing in tailwaters. I generally cast upstream work my
way down stream until I find a pattern that works, especially when the water
is high. Sometimes I swim it, sometimes I'll do a drift lift, but what
works in those waters quite often when the water is moving is casting
