On Jan 26, 9:00*am, "Larry L" wrote:


One problem I've never solved is the difficulty landing fish if your fishing
depth is more than about 8 feet. * * The bobber jams onto the rod's tip and
keeps you from reeling in far enough to get to the fish easily with a net..

The use of forceps as depth gauge I learned from Tom Loe.

Regarding deep midging, first, I use the pop-top indicators which can
be removed without having to slide down to the end of the line.

http://sierrapac.com/terminal_tac.htm

It's a dicey proposition to remove the indicator from the leader while
you've got a good fish on but this indicator is about the easiest to
perform such an operation.

Second, when I know I will be midging I bring along a landing net with
a 6 ft long handle.

BTW, one more nice thing about the pop-top indicators is that when on
the stream and not nymphing I leave the little rubber sleeve at the
end of my fly line and then slide it down the leader when I need to
quickly switch to indicator nymphing w/o having to re-tie. There are
several indicator designs which permit this too but I like the pop-
top's ability to communicate a lot more information about what is
going on underwater (while stillwater midging and on rivers) as
opposed to yarn indicators which can be removed w/o retying (via half
hitch) or the slit foam indicators with the rubber insert which do not
provide a nice drift. The little stick also shows me if my midge
leader is really hanging straight down.

Mu