HOW TO EURO-NYMPH/ Central Pennsylvania 

I am a teacher and an avid fly fisherman. Teaching, like fly fishing, is an art. I have seen tons of fly fishing videos, many by big name fly fishing companies. I can't think of many that are better than this one. The way that you present the information is spot on and the tips are all stuff that works. Keep up the good work!

Rod/reel combo with fishing kit as an emergency setup ru-vid.comUgkxntWMOZsO1Zfv-pdn_XuffEtNkTYAYu4Z recommend but started to use this every day. The rod is thick and seems durable. I keep it neatly tucked into a regular backpack all the time with my fishing gear, and can grab it anytime, put it on my back and go anywhere. I just read in another review that the rod length below the reel is adjustable as well, so I will try that too for even more portability. Probably the best setup I've ever owned. I lost the cap for the eyelets, but no big deal since I still have the black cloth sheath that came for the pole and I use that. Very portable and high quality.

Not everyone makes a video like this one. I like the way you show the setup and teach how to read water. Thanks! Superb video!!

Dan, you are the man! You're videos are always fresh and fly. I could watch you all day...and sometimes I do. 😎

Great How to Video. A lot of useful information and tips. Good Luck Spring Gobbler Hunting. Keep on keeping on and Best of luck always and thanks for sharing your videos.

Caught my first trout on a nymph today. So awesome! Searched videos to get some more technique and found your video. SUPER helpful.

One of the best euro nymphing on YT right now! Thanks for the tips!

Yeah, this is the best fly fishing "how to" ive seen on RU-vid so far. Keep em coming!

This is the first euronymphing that I’ve seen in 3 years that is actually useful for all skill levels. Well done and keep it up 👍🏻

Great video - easy to follow and great camera work showing your cast and following the line - thanks!

Some good tips. Thanks for sharing! Been fishing this method only since 2017 still more for me to learn.

Nice job on your video and instructions. You made it easy to follow while removing all the unnecessary technical BS I see in all other videos....Keep em coming!

Great video Dan. Thanks for the tips

dude that has been the best one ive seen. so simple and straight forward. thanks so much.

Great video Hardway. Lots of good information. We recently fished the Pine and the Sinnemahoning. We did ok but could have used some of these tips. Keep em coming.

love the simple approach keep em coming!

I've watched a number of these euro-nymph vids and always ended up with more questions than answers. UNTIL NOW - thanks for posting this excellent vid !!! :-)

Beautiful stream & great instruction 👍👍

Thank you for making a video that actually makes sense to me!!

Thank you for such a helpful euro nymphing video! ...it was like having a day with my own personal 'virtual' fishing guide...VERY easy to follow your style and I learned a lot ....much appreciated...greetings from the UK...great wild Pennsylvania brownies BTW...

That two-pull arm span for measurement is so simple yet so genius - nice work!

Fantastic instruction.....thanks for sharing this!!

Great informative video. Keep em coming.

Great Job, Keep them coming brother! would love to see a video on tying nymphs and what you use!

Awesome great info I didn't know About floating fly line trick!gracias ese!

Nice shirt dude spanks for the tips hopefully I can come up and get some hands on lessons soon!

Very helpful for a beginner. Thank you.

Well done, enjoyed.

Great Video. Dan.. Keep up the Great Work..

Just “F” outstanding stuff... I learn more watching your video then I have watching over 20!!!! Of those other guys! Keep it up please! Been FlyFishing since 1987. You continue to teach me the good stuff!

So many of us do things similarly. Over the years (40 plus for me) fishing nymphs like this I'm still tweaking my set-up. I have several leader formulas, most with two sighters incorporated in them. I find I'm always analyzing my presentation to get the best drift. What I've seen is that some of the differences in set-up don't really provide a benefit other than a confidence factor; however, that confidence factor is very important. Good job, Dan.

Great stream. I have been fishing that creek for 40 plus years. My grandparents lived a few miles upstream from where you filmed the intro.

This is a really good video. Thank you

Good job, awesome tutorial/demo video. Luv it.

Very well done! The best Iv seen even from the top guys! Keeping it simple..

I've never euro nymphed but after watching that very well explained and informative vid a think a may just have to give it a go 👍

Great video man. There is no doubt this is a winner. Watched it all intently because I find myself thinking the same way as you. That must be a good thing, because you defniitely got this thing down. I have similar plans to do "how to" and 90 sec tutorials in the upcoming year. I wish you the best of luck with your series/channel. Only question I had is, when are we gonna get together and fish :) Tight lines Dan!

My friend. I have been doing this for a few years. Excellent video. If I had no experience at all this would have been fantastic. In fact I wish I had seen this earlier when I started. Even with the time I have in this… This was a fantastic video. Excellent work young man

Been using P-Line FloroClear since i first watched this video. Love it. Great informative video.

Really great info man!

Gave u the thumbs up @ 1:00 for the pro tip about extending the life of your waders! ;-) Thx for that!! EDIT: The rest of the vid is amazing as well!

Very cool. Lot of info I need.

Thanks I really enjoyed that I wish we had waters like that in Staffordshire England ,many thanks

Good instruction.....Best of Luck with your Channel !

Great video!

Good tip on what to wear under waders...I hadn’t considered that much

Good video and I appreciate the tips.

Amazing!!!

I had planed to go fishing today, first time in two years but as luck would have it the wife came down with a bug. At least I had your great video to fall back on and I realy enjoyed the information you shared. To much water here in Cal anyway take care and thanks again....Craig

Very well done!

Great video Buddy!

Informative! Thanks!

Just learned this technique this weekend while Fishing Wolf Creek Hatchery stream in Kentucky. A very nice gentleman from England took the time to show me how to tie the tandem rig knot and how to follow the line back down just as you done. I was catching trout when no one else was. He showed me how to tie in the indicator line between the leader and tippet. The two colored indicator line made seeing the strikes easier. He gave me several feet of the indicator line. Now I’m back home looking for a spool of 5x indicator line. I’m new to trout fishing. I recently fished the Yellowstone, Beaverhead , Madison and several small creeks in Montana.

great video, I personally just use my standard floating line with just about a foot out the tip of the rod for turn over. Then for the leader I use flouro for a foot then a sighter made from alternating Orange and yellow Dacron (bind splice loops on either end and double surgeon knotted sections) then 3 feet of flouro to a small barrel swivel then a tippet of around 18 inches. I attach the flies same as you. My system is free and made from stuff I already had. A lot of hard core Euro people will say my system isn't ideal but it works fantastic and is so much simpler than many people make it out to be.

Nice will try thanks!

When you catch fish on this stream, you know what you’re doing. 👍

Awesome video Dan !!! Great video very informative and great tips !!! You are my hero !!! #Getsome 🤘#watchhardwayoutdoorsforlife

Great tips!

Oooooooooooh you have a William Joseph pack! Damn man, hold on to that classic peice of gear

Tnx for the great video, i need to tie some nymph leaders up. Tight lines

Great vid bro.. Subscribed!

Well done! Thanks

Great instructional video wish I would have seen this long time ago. Coming from PA myself nice to see steams I have fished.

I have watched instructional nymphing videos by lance Eagan and Devon Olsen amongst others. I am trying to dedicate to euro nymphing techniques the majority of the time... your instruction was clear and concise. On par or better than others. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to more. Where did you pick up your William Joseph pack? Pretty sweet setup

Nice video , congratulations , keep up with the good work.

2 years later, such a great video.

Y’all fish n cast a lot like I do, working the water without trying to get all fancy in casting long distances when the trout are pritty much right in front of you! That’s why I use a 7’ 5wt rod and 7’-9’ of 4# leader. I’ve caught 22” fat Browns here in N. C. PA We’ve some beautiful water up here right?!?! Tight lines guys and keep up your great job

great video!!!!

There's a cast called a Tuck Cast that we all used to get your nymph/larva pattern in the water first before the Euro era....fwiw.....really helps you fish farther out, when appropriate. Beautiful fish......

Yea great video one of the better euro nymphing ones on youtube...what make of fluorocarbon tippet did you mention?what jig pattern is the black fly you were using on point?what is the length of your leader from fly line to tippet ring?thanks again great tutorial

holy shit this is awesome man, a lot of this stuff you have to have a good friend teach you while out fishing. Im a loner, thanks for sharing these rapid fire tips. subscribed!

Awesome from ireland☺☺☺

Dan well done...helpful. Please explain what you look for to strike a fish.

Great video, thanks for sharing 👍. carnayak (France )

I may have posted before but great job on the video. I picked up a euro rod this past summer and I’m amazed at the improvements in my catch rates. Loved all the tips. The two arm pull for tippet is great. What brand hooks are you tying on? I’ve been using hanak this past summer but a bit pricey considering the amount I’m losing. Have you tried the bulk types off amazon? Keep up the good work.

Nice video, Will add to my Czech nymphing on the Tongariro River down-under in New Zealand. Could you give me a few details of your chest pack and general set up of gear you have on yourself, Thanks.

Really a good video. Very instructional. Sub’d

So I bought and tried the 2lb p-line today on a local michigan stream. Caught my personal best brown 15". That line had no problem. I was a bit nervous at first but I'm sold now. I do feel like I got more take then usual. Maybe because the small diameter. 🤷‍♂️. Thanks for all the tips.

Great video i like you euro nymph. Tom Ireland. Tight lines

Good video

Hey Dan! Very good tutorial for Euro-Nymphing. I don’t necessarily do Euro or use the mono rig but essentially the first part of my drift method is the same. What I incorporate in most of my drifts is in the second part of my drift, the swing and then just letting your rig hang downstream at the end of the drift for 5-8 seconds. I catch so many fish in the last part of my drift it’s ridiculous. The bad part though is a lot of fish are barely hooked that a lot get off, but I do land a lot also. Incorporating the swing and the hang, I feel, adds up your percentage of hookups and gets the most outta each drift. You definitely have to have more patience with this method, it’s not like running and gunning of Euro or high sticking, but it’s awesome when that fish smashes it right at the end when you just think your drift is done. Again, nice job buddy! 👍🏻

Man. I have SOOOOO much to learn. I just started fly and I've heard a thousand times that Nymphing is how to catch fish.

great!

I really like how the line and sighter is actually visible in that first spot

Great stuff guys, good info and clear instructions. You said you use the pline flouroclear. Any opinion on that vs the 100% flouro? I saw you said the flouroclear has better abrasion resistance in a comment. Does it sink as fast as 100% flouro?

Awesome video! Any recommendations on a chest pack?

Great how to video. Totally think you fished under them though. Show us your tight line dry dropper.

First steelhead. Was on p-line. Held up great

Fantastic instruction thank you and really well done. One small tip nothing to do we technique is please let us not discard line no matter how small on the ground. There are some great little mini trash cans for line which fit on your belt where we can put our cut line in and then dispose correctly. Sorry I do not want to distract from the well thought out video but as fly-fisher persons we need to be superlative custodians of where we fish.

awesome fishing! I GOT LIKE 30 YRS FLY FISHING..OF COURSE I am not all that great.and have a ton of missed trout..still learning tricks..think mb its because was so used to one stream..donegal..and now and then clarks..do miss donegal after the spill which I believe was manure this yr and the nitrate that burned the trouts gills and there went all the stocked trout 5 days after stocking.but the natives donegal TU CLUB PUT IN YRS AGO.still there..lots brownies so I was told..I not caught 1 yet in 3 visits. moved up towards reading due to wifes work..I retired.not by choice.but anyways.tully is nice..still trying to hook like everyone else does.learning the zebra midge thing.or trying to. any how.dont know where your at here.but I been wanting for yrs to hit a wild trout stream and finally catch some..brownies is my fave love.. and thats a goal to meet once in my life is have a great day catching wild browns.tried checking wisconisco being was told native browns.but guy will not tell where..ughh anyways..one day.just one day.i get half as good as you with catching like you did here .would be awesome.makes hard to fish with a disability that dont allow to be on feet very long at one clip.. hop skip fishing is what i call it.lol fish a short..sit on ass.long story..keep up the great fishing.so admire what you got going on..and think i need to redo my line set up. 8 ft leader might be the issue..

Ran across your video the day after I tried this technique for the first time using my 11' 4wt. My primary problem / issue was casting, as there is no weighted "fly line" to throw. I developed a kind of flip / casting method like I had a spinning rod in my hand, but with the two flies not generating much weight my line did not go out as far as I wanted. I note that this video looks like he's using a traditional fly backcast, which did NOT work with my 20' of mono / site line / leader / flies setup. Any advice? Thanks for this video!

excellent job at explaining your technique !!

Informative video. New subscriber.

Great video. Learned a lot. Is the fighting butt on the Syndicate interchangeable? Thanks!

Great video! But it's not always true that you always want the heavy fly on the bottom. Sometimes the if the fish are holding on the bottom, a heavy fly on top will pull both flies deep. You don't have as good of a constant contact with your flies, but it can be very effective in faster current.

great video, i am just gettig into fly fishing and have been watching a lot of videos for tips, its so much different then the way I used to fish. What state are you from

Hold on to that chest rig. It's what a lot of pros use to use. Pretty sure you can't get them anymore. Tight line vide o introduced me to them with a video on a jersey competition on the rarington river--many years ago.

Nice video. I've also searched for less expensive tippet options. The problem with a "fishing line" such as the P-Line is that it's only 2 lb. test in 6X equivalent. RIO FlouroFlex Plus, for example, is 3.6 lb. test in the same diameter. So I think you're just giving up too much. If I need to save money, I would go with standard tippet first before I gave up so much in strength (almost double). RIO Powerflex comes in a guide spool at 100 yds for $10 at 3.4 lb. Their new Powerflex Plus is more expensive at $10 for a 50 yd spool but tests at 4.0 lbs which is actually double what you're using. I'm not affiliated with RIO in any way, it's just the one I sometimes use so I'm familiar with it. But I think you'll find the other brands like TroutMaster or what have you are also much stronger than what you're using. I just think if you hook a larger fish in current or near brush you're just at too much disadvantage with 2 lb test. With all the money we spend on fly fishing stuff, I can't justify that.

Which creek is it? My first guess was Penns Creek, but the road suggests otherwise. The only other stream that wide is Little Juniata?

Great meeting you Monday! Definitely shoot me an email when you get a chance. Tightlines