Comments on: Why Euro Nymphing Doesn’t Suck – Part 1 – The Setup

By: Alex Berger

Alex Berger — Sun, 13 May 2018 15:30:35 +0000

Joe, great presentation. You're a good salesman! There are a few things wrong with your presentation, the most important of all is river behind you which is not for french nymphing! You french nymph in crystal clear streams max depth 4' depth.

By: SKUNK4040

SKUNK4040 — Sun, 13 May 2018 15:30:35 +0000

I tend to run the heavier fly off of the tag on the surg knot. with an unweighted nymph off the main tippet. I find it tangles less and it seems to yeild more hits. at leaste here in nevada on the truckee. usually a 12-14 jig head attractor pattern with a sow bug or weightless hares ear trailing. caddis pupa kill it sometimes also unweighted. I try to give the fish two options between attractor and imitation and mabey adjust my duo accordingly throughout the day. I too was an avid indicator fisherman when it came to nymphing and once i read some of Lance Eagan and George Daniel's material on euro nymphing I have never turned back except for some stillwater situations. building some taper into your leader can help with the "flick" at the end of your drift. Rio makes some good sighter material for the bottom end as well. I do like the darcon idea. drag comes to mind though. great video as always!!

By: Chris Leslie

Chris Leslie — Sun, 13 May 2018 15:30:35 +0000

why 2 flies?

By: awaken77

awaken77 — Sun, 13 May 2018 15:30:35 +0000

A mix of euro nymphing and wet fly technique I learned from Slovak guide: bottom fly – medium size nymph. middle fly – smaller nymph (often – micronymph ) , and top fly – soft hackle / spider style wet fly. He cast the whole thing upstream, lead with the hand, and when rig passes by, lowers the hand , so in the end rod is low and almost parallel to the water. So it continues as "classic wet fly swing" in the lower quarter, and flies go up in the water column, mimicking emergers going to the surface. Fish both can take nymph and wet fly, and often in the end of the swing it prefers wet fly. He uses very lightweight nymphs, so its technique good only for low water or shallow riffles, where depth is below the knee level

By: charlie ruff

charlie ruff — Sun, 13 May 2018 15:30:35 +0000

When is Part 2 coming?

By: Brian Urias

Brian Urias — Sun, 13 May 2018 15:30:35 +0000

If I nymph with chicken liver or canned sweet corn does that count?

By: Peter Nugent

Peter Nugent — Sun, 13 May 2018 15:30:35 +0000

Rings are bollocks watch my link below

By: Peter Nugent

Peter Nugent — Sun, 13 May 2018 15:30:35 +0000

https://youtu.be/8P0lKoE1QIU

By: Peter Nugent

Peter Nugent — Sun, 13 May 2018 15:30:35 +0000

This man makes sense. I'm European. https://youtu.be/8P0lKoE1QIU

By: Peter Nugent

Peter Nugent — Sun, 13 May 2018 15:30:35 +0000

Set up is good for that big slow flowing no trees in the way very good. But rappits deep flowing water where ever thing is moving so fast and you can't wade in the water no way. I seen a USA man he used mono he used a sticky pad as a float I used the double sided sticky pad it's match river to deep but it moves very fast cast I could not get it to where I wanted it to it match rivers are heigh. So this sticky pad I had for sticking up what ever in most hardwares or pound or doller shops had my weight at the very bottom of line split shot scud about 6 inches above that them my other fly then up to the sticky pad. An I had to fish off of low bridge. Waters to heigh. Not ever river is perfect for your set up. Some are deep grooves fuck all pebble. I'm lucky I have this kind of river near me. I'll send on a link to my kind of fishing