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    • December 23, 2019 at 2:21 pm #10104
      Barry Dunnegan
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      Dear Sensei,

      I attended an excellent program by your grasshopper friend about Euro nymphing last week but did not get to ask a vital question.  Are there scientific studies on the sink rate differences between say 4X tippet and 6x when tied to identical tungsten bead flies?  Can .002 inch make that much difference?  Isn’t the reason for the smallest diameter tippet based on less mass thus less drag on the fly?

    • December 26, 2019 at 9:13 am #10112
      Sensei
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      Oh Grasshopper,

      Scientific studies fly fishers do not make. The euro nymphing master’s ideas understand we can not but catching fish they do. Believe they do about less drag/less mass.

      Ha, .002 inch diameter makes a difference you ask? To you maybe not but to the Olympic runner who lost a gold medal because of .002 of a second it does….

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