Tim McCoy

Euro Nymphing rods have a very sensitive tip and a stiff butt section. Sensitive tip is to feel the take, stiff butt to fight the fish. The rods are physically light, 2.75 to 3.5 ounces and throw 2-5 wt lines. They are light because you fish close in (length of rod) and do a lot of high sticking. Why close in, because your leader is short. My butt section of my leader 20# 20 feet, followed with a intermittent section of 15# 2 foot, then a sighter with a tippet ring then 4X tipit,down to 5x tipit. Over all length is under 30 feet. You have to determine tipit length on the water based on depth. My rod is 10″6′ 3 wt. I have put a 4 wt reel on it to help balance it, remember we are hi-sticking. Light and balanced is key to combating fatigue. I have no fly line. I have filled my reel arbor with 20# backing. I filled it with-in a quarter inch of the edge of the arbor. Goal is to keep everything light. Said that before. Why backing, fly line sags between rod guilds causing loss of sensitivity. I sorta agree, maybe we should have a sit down session and exchange thoughts and info. Meanwhile do a little digging by searching on line. Start by asking what is Euro Nymphing. Then ask what is a Mono Rig? Why Does Fly Line Suck? See if you can find Domenick Swentosky web site TROUTBITTEN. You can spend days reading his post.

Normally a slotted bead is used to get around the hook bend, but not all hooks are equal nor are all beads. You could maybe go over size on the bead and see if it will work. I never got that lucky. I pretty much stay with slotted beads for jig hooks, and over size them. Then I will place the over sized bead off center on the shank of the hook so as to invert the hook, point up. It will snag on the bottom less.

Boy there is going to be a lot of dots. So here goes again for the 4th time the name of the nymphs I tie.
Iron Lotus
Tungsten Rainbow Warrior (a favorite)
Silver bullet Baetis
Red Dart
Tungsten Surveyor
F.r.e.n.c.i.e. (a favorite)
Tinsel Perdigon
B.l.o.w.t.o.r.c.h. (a favorite)
Soft Hackle Carrot (a favorite)
S.e.x.y. Walt’s Worm

Let’s see if these will post

Well, I just listed the nymph fly patterns again, they are not here. Is there some kind of disallow thingy going on.?

My suggestion would be to go with your rod in hand to Feather-Craft. Take your reel also. Feather Craft has reels set up with different weighted fly lines and will let you cast them in their side yard. That way you will know for certain what line will cast best. They will fill your reel for you with backing and the line you chose. Of course you gotta pay, but the use of their reels and lines is free. Not all fly line are equal. One 5 weight to another may weigh more in the head or belly compared to its brother from a different manufacture. That 4 wt. Winston I won at the raffle a few years ago works better with a 4 wt. Scientific Anglers Sharkwave than it did with a Rio Gold. Just a tad heaver I think. But it is a textured line and it makes a little noise.

Jim,

Are you specifically focusing on Czech nymphs or can we expand that to a more expanded subject of Euro nymphing?

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by Tim McCoy.