"Joe McIntosh" wrote ...

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Now my question--need suggestion of easy way to go from dry to nymph--as I
fish upstream and come to a five foot or deeper pool just know there is a
fish or two down deep- anyone have a trick to change rig for a nymphing
attempt without mess of changing fly-adding weight etc?


Two thoughts, neither of which I've tried:

Make a quick and improvised dropper rig. Keep the dry tied on and add
leader/tippet, tied in just above the dry. Tie your (weighted) nymph to new
bit of leader. The dry then becomes a bobber for the nymph. I'd imagine that
it wouldn't take more than a minute or two to rig. Seems too, that when it's
time to move on, a quick snip would get you back to dries without much
hassle.

Also:

I've toyed with the idea of using an old tippet spool as a keeper for a
nymph rig. Assuming a loop-to-loop connection from the line to the leader,
when it comes time to switch, just undo the loop and wrap the whole thing
(fly, too) on the spool. Grab your nymph rig and make the quick connection.
I'd guess that this would take a minute or two, max.

Like I said, I've not actually tried these. If you try either, please let me
know what you think.
-Dan