Tag: Euro Nymph

Indicator [ in-di-kay-ter ]   a person or thing that indicates, signals, or points out. Indicators (bobbers, floats, corks) are one of those fly fishing essentials that you either love or hate. Old-timers call them bobbers and believe that the word “indicator” is just a fancy way of describing the red and white bobbers they (more…)

Perdigon nymphs are currently one of the hottest items in the nymph fisherman’s vernacular and fly box, and I am right there with them. These small, dense patterns are designed to sink very quickly, even in the fastest of flows. Features like tungsten beads and UV-cured bodies make them heavy, and a relative lack of (more…)

We’ve been hearing about Euro nymphing, a version of the old “high sticking” that many of us grew up doing, for quite a while. Euro nymphing just takes that type of fishing to the next level — but with long and lightweight rods, specialty lines and leaders, and even a uniquely sparse group of flies. (more…)