Nymph theory

I googled it

A Bonefish fly?
It would have to be small .. interesting

Thanks
Fred


"Fred Lebow" wrote in message
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Bob Weinberger wrote:

A solution that I find more satisfactory than any you mentioned, is to
use a
floating line, standard length leader, and two flies, one of which is
weighted and acts as a tool fly.

Yes, that's a good rig too. I often use an extra-heavy barbell
eyed crazy charlie for that rig........it gets the fly down, it works
and I do catch fish on the crazy charlie.

All this wondering, on my part, about weight on the leader stems
from a camping trip two weeks back, when I fished in crystal
clear, slow moving water, with egg flies and weight.

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.

And as I get older and for various reasons - I miss even more strikes -
the odds are going down for me...

What is a Crazy Charlie?

Fred