How do you judge what speed to lead your nymphs. Also do you always try to have a curve in your sighter when leading.Can't really see your sighter on the video.Cheers great video
I try to go at/slightly slow than the pace of the current with my "lead". Very rarely am I pulling the flies down stream. If anything, try to go with river. At the end of the video, sorry if you didn't make it there, I did a close up of the sighter. Hopefully that helps some. I generally like a very small sag. Situationally things can change, but many time I lead with a light sag or loss of tension. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Can’t see your line in the water. Have no idea how exactly you rigged your leader with flies (distance between flies). How do you “know” you are deep enough? What role does your line hand play in managing the fly line during the drift? What are you doing with the free line during the drift? When you reach the end of the drift without a take, how do you move the flies on removing them from the water to start the next cast? To present this information, be specific descriptively for the viewer. Unless you are assuming your viewers are experienced with each of these components, you must be clear and specific about what they should be looking for during performance of the tasks. Especially when it is difficult to clearly view what is transpiring. If this demo is assuming your viewers are experienced fishers, the above suggestions may not be necessary. But are reminders of what should be in place.
All fair points. I think to a degree some could be more well explained by me. However, some of the points about what you can't see really would require basically a professional camera crew and multiple set ups on the stream. I do believe a lot of the people viewing do have a background of knowledge, which help. Whereas, to your point, those who don't have a level of ignorance as to what is going on. Thanks for the feedback and hopefully in future videos I can help brush up some of those points some.
When you say your rigs, do you mean the leader? I am using a Micro Leader, which I will post a separate video for later. Is it tippet? If so, 6x tippet and I discussed depth in the video? Flies I covered. Just curious which you meant. Best of luck as you keep going out, sorry this wasn't enough. Tight lines!
@tightliningmd First let me say your videos are great and been a huge help to me. Iam just a very visual learner and it just helps to the detail on your setup. For instance the spacing between the nimpf and the egg. Its alot to learn and every little bit helps. Iam so glad I found your channel.
@@joepro8858 Thanks a lot and I am glad to help, that is why I post them. As far as distance goes, I like about 18-24" of distance. I would start with the 24", because that allows you a couple fly changes before they get a little too close together. As far as total tippet, including the 24" I like about 1.5x the depth of the water. So if there is 4 ft of water I like about 6' of total tippet. Hope that helps!