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Fishing Thoughts
Using a
double rig is a great way to increase your catch rate, it gives the fish
an extra choice, they see 2 nymphs instead of one, often if you fish a
beadhead with a regular nymph the flash of the bead acts as an
attractor, the fish comes for a look, sees the more real imitation and
garbs that instead. The beadhead provides the weight to pull the smaller
more realistic pattern down to the fish.
Tying
the rig. (Dropper) I generally use a
Blood Knot but a
Surgeon's Knot will work too. Just leave one tag extra long to which
you tie your second fly. One word of warning, check them often as the
tippet will break at the knot. I give them a good pull to test to check,
and if you are expecting big fish be particularly careful.
Tying them
this way they can move more naturally with the currents, tying them
inline would be easier but I don't feel they work as well.
It's also
easy to get it all tangled up, and the tangles are twice as bad, so
again check them regularly, often the first sign of a tangle is a change
in the noise of the leader through the air so stop immediately and check
it.
Also be
extra wary of underwater obstacles when playing fish as the extra nymph
invariably garbs onto them! Also be careful when netting your fish as it
can catch your net too, which causes problems if the fish isn't also in
the net!!
Good luck,
it's always fun experimenting with different techniques.
Interesting website;
Tying a glo
bug
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