10-21-2013, 01:43 PM
[quote downed_Phly]How do you fish on the bottom with a weighted fly, on sinking fly line, stripping it quickly, without snagging every single thing on the lake bed?[/quote]
It is certainly a possibility, but timing as Mojo said. All line will hit bottom at some point, some faster than others. In the situations I have been in lately, faster sinking line gets it past the smaller guys before they can hit it.
The weekend before last, I was fishing 9" to 7' of water with vegetation. It was cast 30' to 40' and start stripping with a TYPE VII. That would be the 5' to 6' zone.
I am using Density Compensated line which is uniform sink the whole line. But for shallow weedy lakes there is WET CELL. It will form a belly with the middle of the line sinking faster than the fly end.
Lastly, I do tie two batches of flies. Most are NOT weighted for the sinking lines. This allows me to put the fly in the zone depending on the sink rate.
I do weight Chironomids so they can sink straight down, but sometimes I will also add split shot to the line.
[signature]
It is certainly a possibility, but timing as Mojo said. All line will hit bottom at some point, some faster than others. In the situations I have been in lately, faster sinking line gets it past the smaller guys before they can hit it.
The weekend before last, I was fishing 9" to 7' of water with vegetation. It was cast 30' to 40' and start stripping with a TYPE VII. That would be the 5' to 6' zone.
I am using Density Compensated line which is uniform sink the whole line. But for shallow weedy lakes there is WET CELL. It will form a belly with the middle of the line sinking faster than the fly end.
Lastly, I do tie two batches of flies. Most are NOT weighted for the sinking lines. This allows me to put the fly in the zone depending on the sink rate.
I do weight Chironomids so they can sink straight down, but sometimes I will also add split shot to the line.
[signature]