Nymphing - indicator-to-nymph MAX distance

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What am I not understanding here? I feel like I'm comfortable nymphing
with a distance of about 4' between the indicator and fly, and really
no more. But of course that doesn't get me down very deep at all.

Bruiser is the man for deep drifting nymphs with an indicator. He's got it
down but I've never really gotten it. When it gets that deep, I like to be
more in control so I try to get more over the nymph, have shorter effective
drifts, and don't use a strike indicator. I use a tuck cast to drive the
nymph down to compensate for having shorter drifts. Or at least just leave
it on and move it way up out of the way. Bruiser uses a semi-permanent
indicator, which is part of what I don't get about it :-)