Rich Osthoff's Active Nymphing
 

In another post, we got into a discussion about multi-rig set-ups. I used
to fish this way, until
I discovered Rich Osthoff's Active Nymphing technique with a single fly. He
describes when dead-drifting
you usually have to drift the fly or flies into the feeding zones. Depth and
flow of the current in your set-up plays an important role. In Active
Nymphing, you're taking a single fly like the Soft-Hackle Wooly Worm, and
covering water to pull the fish out of the feeding zones. Fish will chase
the moving fly. It's highly successful, and exciting when a fish hits it.
In some incidents I got over anxious and set the hook too soon, when I felt
a tug on the tail. Other times, I felt a tug on the tail, set the hook,
missed it, and the fish hit it again, even a third time. Today, I rarely
dead drift.
Rich Osthoff's website:
http://www.richosthoff.com/page4.html
fwiw,
-tom