salmobytes wrote:
salmobytes wrote:
A heavy glass bead, fished without weight on the leader,
was the best solution. At least you could feel hte strikes right
away. But a heavy egg doesn't drift as well, so that
solution had its drawbacks too.

I forgot the wrap-up. I don't think we caught a single
fish by feeling the strike and setting the hook. In all
cases we got hookups when we saw a fish move
and reacted to that.

If the water had been off-color, we'd have been
skunked, even though we'd had dozens of strikes.

Another approach that sometimes works for me in such a situation is a
sink-tip (or full sinking) line in a camouflafge colour (no fluoroscent
orange here) and a relatively short leader. A standard egg fly (yarn,
Floam(r) or whatever) then floats along with a nice dead-drift.