"Wayne Harrison" wrote in message
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ya know, i just can't resist the opportunity to soapbox on some of this
"nymphing technique" as it relates to fishing with a fly rod.

at some point (and for me, it's after one lead ball), this leaves the
world of "fysshing with a flye", or whatever, and enters the world of
"catch the *******s anyway you can".

if one wants, or needs, to start adding chunks of lead to a line, very
early on a lightweight spinning rod becomes, quite obviously, a much more
efficient tool; and more stylish, to boot.

There's a lot of merit to that, which is exactly why I'm not into fly
fishing for bass much. Fly fishing is supposed to be a means to an end
(casting a lure that's too light to cast), not an end in itself. Still, I
think the length of the fly rod and heavier fly line can help move a
weighted nymph around. But Joe Humphreys sometimes uses straight mono for
deep nymph fishing, at which point it merely becomes a convenience of
changing out a spool, rather than carrying 2 rods on the stream with you.