"Dave LaCourse" wrote in message
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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.

Well, I don't do much nymph fishing so I can hardly claim to be an authority
but, if memory serves, Jim Leisenring had something to say about it.
Besides, it stand to reason that fishing a weighted nymph downstream on a
taut leader is an excellent way to control the speed of the drift.

And just because I am fishing with an eight foot leader, it does not
mean my strike indicator is eight feet from the nymph.

True, true.

In two feet of
water, it is probably three or four feet from the nymph.

If your depth holds, that's good thing. But if you're working the tailout
of a pool or a run, things can get shallow in a hurry. If there's four feet
of leader between the indicator and the fly and the fly is ahead of the
indicator, your indicator can move up to nearly eight feet.....at the same
speed as the bubbles around it.....before the numph moves at all.

Or, more
than likely I am not using an indicator at all.

Your scenario, not mine.

Wolfgang
look it up.