"NYMPHING STRATEGIES", ( Part 1), Dec. 2017 

steve gauthier Thanks Steve, I appreciate your feedback. Glad the videos help.

Frankie Shoenfelt Thanks Frankie, had a lot of fun with this one!

Thanks Scott! Happy you enjoyed it. Love helping guys out!

Joe Cooney You’re welcome Joe, glad you enjoy them. I really like helping guys out. Have fun!

Ryan Palm Hi Ryan. Thank you for your kind words. You’re very lucky to live near such great trout waters. Very happy the videos help you learn more about our wonderful sport. Stay tune, more coming! Tight Lines!

PA WOODS N WATER I plan to take my first trip to penns early April. Looking forward to it.

I really don’t have a preference, but it definitely depends on what size of stream. On smaller streams I usually work upstream on medium to large it doesn’t matter. What does matter is if I’m getting hits on the swing and hang, if I am, I’m definitely working downstream because that technique rarely works if you work upstream because you’ve already hit the water downstream so those fish below you are not apt to hit the swing. Usually other anglers may sway my decision also. On bigger streams or rivers, I really don’t notice that playing into my success or not, obviously either way you gotta be careful in all your approaches. Thanks for the question.

Thank you Martin! Glad you enjoyed it. Hope you found it helpful. Appreciate you watching and commenting.

Me? I love fly line. I’m casting my line, I build my tandem rig the way basic fly lines are built, basically heavier down to lighter at the fly end. I know there are many different line formulas but I’m saying basically that’s how they’re built, and that’s how I build my rig , from heavier fly up top down to my lighter fly at the end, not at all how dropper rigs are setup or drop shot rigs.

Jon Burgo Hey Jon! Thanks!

Len Sherlinski Thanks Len! It was really a fun day, hope the information helps.

Scott, how far is the Tully from Williamsport? Is it in the Reading area?

Yes, right in the Reading area.

Your welcome! That was early Xmas gift, HA!

Eileen Corcoran Wow!! International viewers, super cool!! You’re welcome, my pleasure!

Hi Bill! You are exactly correct! I am NOT euro Nymphing, not tightlining, not using an all mono leader, just regular good old American Nymphing. Check out my video Nymphing Strategies Part 3 and the first ten minutes of my video Nymphing a Snowy Penns Creek for my setup. Those two will explain in more detail. Thanks for your question and I appreciate you watching.

cody Meikrantz Hey Cody! Congratulations on your new rod. An 8ft/3wt rod is a good all around trout rod, as long as it feels comfortable in your hands, that’s what’s important. You can learn to fly fish with any rod, as time goes by you may want a different rod for different situations, but believe me not necessary. All us long time flyfishermen are guilty of that. Don’t just use it for trout tho, you can have a ball with it on bluegills and bass also. The more you use it the more experience you’ll get. At first try nymphing with just one or two bugs, don’t go to three yet until you really get a good feel for everything. Wish you all the best with it. Keep watching the videos, learn as much as you can, then go apply it. Have fun and tight Lines!

Thanks Ken! Honestly, I use the same butt section and just modify from my 4x down to my tippet. Not that critical unless you’re a professional caster going for distance, most casts are within 20ft to 50ft. Tippet size and length more critical, I mostly use 5x for dries and 4x for underneath.

TEST Fifty Hello! Well, for attractors I’ve seen fish hit them right away, same day they’re stocked, but they definitely feed better each day as they get acclimated to the new stream. As for as bugs, I’d give them 3-4 days minimum, then obviously better as they get used to seeing they bug life happening and seeing other fish feed. Good luck!

PA WOODS N WATER thanks for the fast reply !

Chuck Peacock Hi Chuck, for nymphing and using a Globug as my point fly, I put my split shot or two above the Globug about 5 inches because it takes forever for them to sink.

Greg Sheu Hi Greg! Thank you for watching and commenting. I really don’t like to label nymphing as Euro or Czech or tight lining, big debate over the origin. To me, it’s just nymphing, whether it’s in close, out far , shallow or deep water. You just have to adapt to the situation. George Daniels Dynamic Nymphing book is excellent. If you can get ahold of it, study it, the bible on nymphing.

PA WOODS N WATER I will check it out his book. There are some videos of him on RU-vid as well. Thanks for the tips.

Douglas Randall Thanks Doug! Glad you had a chance to view it. Hopefully get together soon.

There's no set rule, it depends on how deep the water is, how fast the water is, how far out your drift is. remember, w/o an indicator, your rod and line are always in front of your flies leading the way, no slack line, no S bends. The only time your flies are ahead of your line or the rod is towards the end of your drift when your starting the swing, and at the end of the swing, always let your flies hang there for a good 5-10 sec., then flip back upstream. And always make sure your have enough weight to occasionally feel bottom. Hope this helps.

That helps much. Thanks again

VINCENT TANINIES Well Vincent, first, thank you for watching and commenting. My suggestions if you’re gonna head out to Central PA for Winter flyfishing for the first time, definitely try Spring Creek first. It really fishes well all over. I would definitely go on a weekday Tuesday thru Thursday, and fish either in or upstream or downstream of Fisherman’s Paradise, about a mile and a half in either direction. It doesn’t matter the temperature outside, but pick a day with minimal wind and if possible a higher humidity, also if possible after a good rain even better. I fished Spring last year with a buddy, and we fished up in the gorge above the Paradise. The whole day hovered around 10 degrees, it was cloudy and flurried off n on all day. We honestly caught 50-60 trout between us. Just dress accordingly and use a face mask and handwarmers in your gloves and on your feet. Hope this helps. Good luck n tight lines!

thanks, it definitely helps i will follow you suggestions and give it a try & let you know

Chuck Peacock For Valley Creek, an 81/2-9ft 3-4wt. rod is sufficient for nymphing and dry fly fishing, wouldn’t go any longer, some spots too tight. The Tully is definitely worth a visit, check out my Tully flyfishing tour videos for a bunch of good spots.

I appreciate your input and will check out more of your videos, does the Tully stay fishable through the winter on warmer days?

Chuck Peacock Yep, even the coldest days.

Thanks :)

Len Navitsky April, May n June, best months for bugs. Good luck! Whole Tully is great fishing at that time. Actually it fishes well all year round.

John Cavellier Hi John! You’re welcome and my pleasure, glad you enjoyed it and that it helped you. Tight Lines!

balor7 For nymphing I use 4x, sometimes I’ll go down to 5x but not often.

PA WOODS N WATER thank you. I did not know to use heavier tipper when nymphing.

balor7 Heavier tippet for nymphing not as critical and helps a lot getting that fish in quickly. Good luck!

Len Navitsky Yes, but good fishing all up and down the Tully.

Todd H I know I deleted it to reload

JokiBroki Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. Yea, really, like I said in the video, catching fish on the swing in Winter is kind of unusual. Maybe I should’ve tried a soft hackle, bet it would’ve worked too. Thanks for the comment.

PA WOODS N WATER yes very unusual but it can happen if the temperature of the water goes up a bit fish will start being more active. So couple of degrees up can make them go for the flies. If you ever do tie soft hackles try doing CDC instead of partridge as hackle. My catch rate is better with CDC is my belief. All the best

Bill Dailey Honestly, only about 1 a trip or none, I really try my best to get my snags out, I don’t care if I blow a hole, plenty of fish all over. Thanks for watching and commenting.

HA! Thanks, it was a fun day!

Pwrcritter Thank you, glad to have you back and hear from you.

balor7 Hey, Thank you! Glad it helped you, my pleasure!

DAVIDDAMIENR Hi David! You’re welcome and my pleasure.

tooter1able Hey Tom! Glad to hear from you. Thank you for watching and reaching out to me. If you want, email me at scottmxdad@yahoo.com

That Murder Inc. Thank you! A fun day.

PA WOODS N WATER yes sir. Check us out, we're PA boys too

That Murder Inc. I will!

Christopher P Creation I do like fishing in the rain or more, the day after. All that extra biomass really gets them feeding more.

balor7 Sorry, I rarely fish streamers, I could actually use a lesson on streamers, they’re just not my thing. Conditions have to be right for me to try streamers and when I do use them, I usually use a bunny leech or wooly buggers still dead drifting them. My son is the streamer pro, he’s big time on smallmouths, pike and muskies.

Christopher P Creation Thanks Chris! Sorry I’m not on Instagram or Facebook, maybe in the future.

No worries I have one called catch n snap outdoors all central PA stuff. You can use a 1 minute video clip to funnel folks to your full RU-vid video. It's a pretty legit way to increase the traffic with hashtags. Always down to help a fellow PA angler.

Christopher P Creation Hmmm! Here’s my email scottmxdad@yahoo.com, might have to get some more information from you on how to set that up. Thank you!

unionse7en Hi bud! Well, in an ideal situation, working upstream is the way to go on a small stream and no one is above you. It is situational, many times on bigger waters I’ll fish downstream especially if I’m swinging flies or if there’s better water downstream. Or it may depend on where you enter the stream or where you park. So I guess I’m saying that you should know how to fish in either direction and the way I work the water is the same as I break it in to sections. I generally would like to fish upstream but a lot of times it just doesn’t work that way, so no hard set rule whether you wanna go up or down. Thanks for pointing that out.