"mdk77" wrote

fish any better than the standard nymph patterns?



Me answering a nymph question is pretty silly,

but G

I think it's probably true, given my VERY limited experience with rubber
legged nymphs

However,

I'd restate it to "Internal motion increases effectiveness." Rubber legs
are ONE way to achieve internal motion, but not, imho, the easiest or best
way ... except maybe in very large flies.

I don't like beadheads( their look) , but I use them because it's easy to
see how much weight the fly has in it, something I like when sight nymphing.
To my mind getting the fly ( damn near any pattern will usually work ) to
the fish's level and having him notice it before you make so many attempts
that he notices YOU and takes off is the "secret" of sight nymphing. I
find this easier with a beadhead of known sink rate than with shot/
unweighted fly when I'm casting with the need for great accuracy,
especially to fish holding mid -column or near the top ... bottom huggers
are relatively hard to miss with "too much" weight. Fishing the water
.... I generally use shot and an unweighted fly for the simple reason I
think it "looks better" and I always want to be on the bottom.

Again: I suk at nymphing and should probably be ignored.