Happy Thanksgiving and a help request!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I hope you and your loved ones have a
safe and fun holiday.

I learned so much this spring, summer, and fall fishing on the
surface. I hit a bunch of backcountry wild brookie streams in PA, and
of course a few in the SNP. This was the first year that I fished
almost every weekend, and sometimes both days. So, while I still have
much to learn about fishing on top (I mean, it's of course a life long
process), I'm pretty happy with where I am, at least as far as wild
brookie streams go (how hard can they be?).

What I want to learn, between now and that first warm, long weekend
that my buddies and I will spend down in the SNP, is how to fish
underneath.

I've always just given up and not bothered. If nothing's working on
top, well, I can just sit in the sun and puff up, or go back to camp
and drink, or go explore, etc.

I want to get beyond that, and my plan is to spend the next 4 months
trying to get some reasonable, practical working knowledge of fishing
underneath - with bead heads, I guess.

So, if anyone, or better yet, a bunch of people, want to write out a
short paragraph of how to start - how to rig up, how it's different
than surface fishing, common pitfalls and frustrations, that would be
cool! Just enough info (and hopefully from different people) to get
me in the water, I can spend the whole winter trying to actually
figure it all out. I do have books, but there's obviously a lot
richer info to be had here.

And has anyone had any of the 2003 Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale, yet?
I'm enjoying one right now.

Your friend,
Mr. Rapidan

Hopefully, come April, I can call myself Mr. Silver Beadhead.