On Tue, 31 May 2005 19:11:51 -0500, "Wolfgang"
wrote:

If you're fishing in shallow water with a weighted nymph with an eight foot
leader and the nymph starts out downstream from the indicator and in the lee
of a small pebble......

Your indicator can move nearly sixteen feet.....at the same speed as the
bubbles around it.....before the nymph moves at all..

You are correct. But who nymphs downstream. Certainly not me.
And just because I am fishing with an eight foot leader, it does not
mean my strike indicator is eight feet from the nymph. In two feet of
water, it is probably three or four feet from the nymph. Or, more
than likely I am not using an indicator at all.

Dave