"salmobytes" wrote in message
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When we put split shot next the egg, or used heavy glass beads,
we got more refusals than when we used an unweighted egg
and split shot on the leader, maybe 24" back up the leader.

But when we did that you couldn't so easily feel the strike.
We caught most of those fish when we saw a fish move near
the orange spot in the crystal clear water. Made me think
I've missed a hundred million nymph strikes over the years.
When you SEE them hit and still feel no strike, it makes you wonder.


That can be largely solved by having the weight (tool fly) below (at the end
of the tippet) and the target fly on the tag of the blood knot leader-
tippet connection.

Bob Weinberger La Grande, OR