Does Size Matter

Hey,
I've been on a small is better kick and am tying many of my nymphs down
to size 20. Problem is, I don't fish in the winter and don't have a
chance to test out these beauties. My theory has more to do with how
the fly sinks than trying to imitate the size of existing nymphs on a
given stream. Anyone have much experience with micronymphs? Should I go
back to tying no. 12 PT's?. Thanks, Frogge.


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frogge wrote:
Hey,
I've been on a small is better kick and am tying many of my nymphs down
to size 20. Problem is, I don't fish in the winter and don't have a
chance to test out these beauties. My theory has more to do with how
the fly sinks than trying to imitate the size of existing nymphs on a
given stream. Anyone have much experience with micronymphs? Should I go
back to tying no. 12 PT's?. Thanks, Frogge.



I'll usually fish a relatively large nymph on top and a smaller one on a
dropper.

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On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:36:20 -0500, frogge
wrote:

I've been on a small is better kick and am tying many of my nymphs down
to size 20. Problem is, I don't fish in the winter and don't have a
chance to test out these beauties. My theory has more to do with how
the fly sinks than trying to imitate the size of existing nymphs on a
given stream. Anyone have much experience with micronymphs? Should I go
back to tying no. 12 PT's?. Thanks, Frogge.

I tie a size 22 PT and use it successfully on brookies and land locked
salmon. There are any number of ways to get it down - let it be a
dropper from a weighted fly or use non-toxic shot. Regardless how you
get it down, it can be deadly. I don't think I have a PT bigger than
16. Most are 18 - 22. Small - 20 - GRHE also work well, as do other
small stuff.

Dave

A follow-up, Frogge with a tale about a pretty good fisherman.

Some years ago I fished the San Juan with a number of other roffians.
One of them, a young man from New Mexico named Hopper gave me a small
fly box chuck full of tiny flies. The biggest was a size 20. He had
tied all of them with little more than thread and very thin wire.
Some were black, others brown or olive. They all had a thread body, a
tiny wire for ribbing (different colored wires) a small tuft of antron
cut very short for wings, and a thread head. They *all* caught fish,
and some very big ones too. I have lost all that he gave me, but now
tie my own just like them. Three minute ties. If I lose one it is no
big thing - pun intended.

Dave