In my humble opinion, overall, we are not talking about apples and oranges but different variants of apples. In other words, the mono-rig and the Euro-nymphing rig are all “tightline” rigs. Joe Humphreys “invented” tight line fishing long ago. Look him up.
If you research you will see that Troutbitten has many different leader choices for the different tight line fishing he professes. Are you going to bring five different leaders when you switch from tightline nymphing to tightline streamer fishing, etc.? Plus Euro-Style nymphing is just that, to me, – nymphing! The guys that do it say that you can throw streamers and dry flies with ESN also. But I say – not very well.
So if I’m fishing dry flies, I am going to use my 4wt “regular” rod for throwing dries and my 5 or 6wt for throwing streamers, etc. If I am nymphing then I will probably use ESN (or indicator if the distance is far away).. Should you learn tightline type fly fishing – YES. Is tightline fishing similar to swinging flies – ah, I think so. It is another arrow in your quiver!
Just in my humble opinion
