How to move beyond dry flies into nymphing and other subsurface flies?

Feb 25, 2010 by asd123 | Posted in Fishing

Hi All,

I've been doing dry fly fishing for trout so far and want to move into using sub-surface flies. Since that is somewhat more complicated than dry flies, do you have any suggestions about how one should proceed? My primary venues


I mostly fish drys, but as you don't have any answers yet. . .
1) A sink tip or full sinking line will let it sink more quickly. There are different weights for different conditions. At first you probably don't need one, many nymphs use tungsten

mv | Feb 26, 2010

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