Taxman
Senior Member
Their are a lot of different views on where to put the heaviest nymph on a double rig. I have fished many variables and usually use a heavier beaded nymph on the point. While fishing a deep freestone crystal clear pool last week, I couldn't find a flashy #16 for a dropper. So I ended up with a 4mm bead sz 14 as a dropper and a sz 14 2.5mm bead on my Girdle bug point fly. I had thrown to a couple visible nice size fish with several cast and just watched them ignore the set up. After I switched up I could see the dropper drift by the fish and the point just floating naturally behind about what I guessed was 8" above the dropper. A nice 17"brown slowly inhaled that Girdle bug on the 2nd cast.
It is interesting how we sometimes adapt a method to a "standard" practice because of what is more often described by most people. It was very cool watching that bug floating and seeing that Brown swallow the bug.
It is interesting how we sometimes adapt a method to a "standard" practice because of what is more often described by most people. It was very cool watching that bug floating and seeing that Brown swallow the bug.