is a rainbow and it took the upper fly which is an ugly purple purple nymph with a pink
bead at the head more of a rain more of what you think of as a rainbow fly instead of the mop fly
yep cute little rainbow
looks like it could be a wild fish too it has nice colors on it clean fins
we all agonize over fly choice but take a lesson from george he keeps his fly selection simple
as instead of trying to match the hatch with a specific fly in your own nymphing you're just
trying to get something that looks tasty in front of a trout it's much more about getting
the fly down to the fish with depth control than it is about using the perfect fly pattern
but george talk a little bit about the flies used now you can theoretically use any heavily
weighted fly for this right they don't have to be tied on jig hooks you can use a standard
beaded print or whatever correct that's kind of efficient but a lot of people use um specialized
flies actually they're not specialized they're more generic patterns right they're kind of
almost nymph attractors exactly how do you rationalize what what fly to pick
basically what i'm looking at is i fish about a dozen style of flies no matter where i go
i just have some varieties of pheasant tails hairs ears to cover most of my mayfly imitations
i have some soft tackle patterns to imitate some caddis along with some case caddis
obviously i have worms and what they refer to as junk flies for dirty water conditions or any
time where fish are actually feeding on floating worms right for the most part i'm looking at a fly
more from a depth standpoint okay i weight my flies according to three distinct weight
classes most of my flies in the heavier section here are tied with a 5 32nd bead
tungsten this next one is tied with a 760 force one size smaller and the next box is tied with a
332nd okay so right there i have three ways of adjusting my depth most of the time i put the
heavier fly on the point putting the heavier fly on the point keeps the entire rig tight
from the rod tip to the nymph also when you officially have you're flying the point
the lighter weight fly in the drop on the dropper you're fishing two distinct levels
in the presentation so keeps it tight and you fish two levels george we talked a bit about weight
in flies and um are there other considerations regarding the profile of the fly for for getting
it down absolutely what we're trying to go for for the most part is just trying to create as thin and
as dense of a body as possible that's just going to quickly penetrate through the water column
to achieve depth and sometimes you obviously want the fuzzy flies floating more in the water column
for emergers but anytime you're looking to achieve a deep drift as close to the bottom try to strive
for thin and dense bodies okay what would you consider a thin and dense fly this is a style
flag called the pertigum it's just a hard body fly it can be the body can be constructed of thread or
a floss that's coated with a uv resin hit with a light but just something that's again just very
thin in diameter this is just a v-rib nymph it's a hard body nymph but you can see the dubbed collar
yeah and that's going to sink at a much slower rate than the protogo okay okay great good to know
you