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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 |
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