06-26-2010, 04:30 AM
Hey Sinergy,
When you says it's fully adjustable what % of the time does that take if you want to hit a handful of different speeds and depths of water about a handful of times each from a single spot. It seldom takes any adjustment with a single fly. 100% of that time is casting and drifting in a couple minute period of time. Then I can walk up and hit a new spot start all over again. In an outing of fishing a small river with variable condition interspersed I can repeat this hundreds of times without the need for any adjustment most of the time. The time you lose with the fully adjustable aspect is time not fishing and not catching. My point is do you really thing this rig will be able to make up for that on the typical small stream we have in Utah. Have you compared catch rates? When I do the single fly almost always outfishes this rigging overall whether I'm using it or someone else is using it with me. When my leader comes up short a buy a new one for nymphing and use the shortened one in a different application. I don't understand saving money on leaders as I will catch hundreds of fish before it's shortened much. Probably works out to less than a penny a fish ( much less than cost of flies) and then I can still use it for dries where tippet serves a purpose other than saving money. I just rather fish with a 5X that performs as a 5X than a rig where it's almost as good as as 7X without any other advantage. I guess I splurge a cent per fish to make sure the big ones aren't always the ones to get away by eliminating the weakest link in the system. I know it's a well known system written up in magazines but do you see it perform better here in Utah than simpler systems that are more efficient in keeping the fly in the water. I just don't think I've ever seen it perform better in head to head comparisons on our smaller streams with the exception of schooling whitefish. Stillwater I won't argue with the effectiveness of such rigs as there is a lot less need to spend time adjusting it, no impairment of drift of the flies and the fishing different depths at the same time can be more critical. Stillwater you also don't typically have as many obstacles to overcome casting so one or 2 casting techniques is almost always adequate. On brushy smaller streams limiting your casting techniques like that and most trout will never even see your fly. Maybe we should do a youtube video comparing the 2 methods on various size rivers.
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When you says it's fully adjustable what % of the time does that take if you want to hit a handful of different speeds and depths of water about a handful of times each from a single spot. It seldom takes any adjustment with a single fly. 100% of that time is casting and drifting in a couple minute period of time. Then I can walk up and hit a new spot start all over again. In an outing of fishing a small river with variable condition interspersed I can repeat this hundreds of times without the need for any adjustment most of the time. The time you lose with the fully adjustable aspect is time not fishing and not catching. My point is do you really thing this rig will be able to make up for that on the typical small stream we have in Utah. Have you compared catch rates? When I do the single fly almost always outfishes this rigging overall whether I'm using it or someone else is using it with me. When my leader comes up short a buy a new one for nymphing and use the shortened one in a different application. I don't understand saving money on leaders as I will catch hundreds of fish before it's shortened much. Probably works out to less than a penny a fish ( much less than cost of flies) and then I can still use it for dries where tippet serves a purpose other than saving money. I just rather fish with a 5X that performs as a 5X than a rig where it's almost as good as as 7X without any other advantage. I guess I splurge a cent per fish to make sure the big ones aren't always the ones to get away by eliminating the weakest link in the system. I know it's a well known system written up in magazines but do you see it perform better here in Utah than simpler systems that are more efficient in keeping the fly in the water. I just don't think I've ever seen it perform better in head to head comparisons on our smaller streams with the exception of schooling whitefish. Stillwater I won't argue with the effectiveness of such rigs as there is a lot less need to spend time adjusting it, no impairment of drift of the flies and the fishing different depths at the same time can be more critical. Stillwater you also don't typically have as many obstacles to overcome casting so one or 2 casting techniques is almost always adequate. On brushy smaller streams limiting your casting techniques like that and most trout will never even see your fly. Maybe we should do a youtube video comparing the 2 methods on various size rivers.
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