French Nymphing by Frank Williams 

Am I the only one that can't see the indicator.

Yes, it is 0.35 mm camoufil...you can use thicker up to 0.45 mm for easier casting

JGregs, Czech nymphing is short line, fast/deeper water, with heavy flies. French and Spanish nymphing are long leader, shallow/clear water, with light nymphs. Both effective in their given situations.

Great video. Awesome detail. Beautiful scenery. Thanks

Spanish nymphing is fishing with long an light rods (10 to 11ft AFTM 3-4) long and thin leader (0,12mm for instance) , no strike indicator is used, only some fluorescent line can be used as indicator (drift indicator), the strike is detected by touch. Flies: very weighted varnished nymphs (usually called perdigones=lead shots) for faster going to the ground of the river. This technique is very efficient in streams

so i dont know if i heard it right but why does the leader need to go all the way down to the spool

Okay, for the second watching I heard Teplá Vltava. Really beautiful spot for fly fishing. Have to try it someday.

An excellent video - thanks for sharing - I have taken the liberty of sharing this to my fishing club facebook page - I hope you don't mind - I am trying to inspire my members to try some different methods - Cheers - Steve.

Beautiful video. Where was it filmed?

Nice Tutorial, thanks for showing!

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Hi Frank, thank you for nice video! I don't believe I will be visiting your guru, Jan Siman, in Czech Republic to learn french nymphing. We have been at it in the Continent since the Roman times, so should a Czech teach a European how do french nymphing?

"8 metres of quite fine diameter"? It's .35mm dia, about 20lb B.S. of Camoufil, n’est pas?

It is like a more flexible method of Tenkara.

Why u keep fish out of the water that long?!

Wonderful job explaining everything 👌 however it really helps to see 👀 what your talking about with leader and not setups and point fly? Thanks. Totally green here. Purely Michigan. At least a five count on your camera roll is sufficient for proper flys and setup. And very beautiful fish cheers

Nice video! might be picky, but why not first get your hands wet at 8:31 before lifting the grayling?

He's a competition fly Fisher and certain rules apply.

small streams, shallow water, light rods, long leaders, small flies...

So all these methods don't use fly line, just leader material, then why spend $400+ for a fly rod. You could use a bamboo stick.

A dry and a dropper would be much more fun.

French nymphing.... sounds dirty.

That second fish was half-dead by the time he put it back in the water. 50 seconds on the video, and that's after they cut out part of the scene. That plus dry hands = poor fish handling. Might as well just take it home and eat it by that point.