How bad our nymphs look in the drift

[Sylvaneous]

I've only seen a few underwater videos of nymph flies drifted on a tippet, but in every one, they hung from their nose and looked pretty bad. That is said with the caveat that I have scant video of real bugs and other nymph flies in the drift, but I have seen some. It makes me think that trout must take just about anything in the drift sometimes. It also might explain how egg and 'junk' flies work well. Egg and worm flies look OK even when drifting nose-up.
If anyone has a decent bank of videos suggesting otherwise, please share.
Syl.

 

[TCWNY]

Id love to see the videos

 

[Sylvaneous]

Id love to see the videos

The last one I remember was an old one with Joe Humphries. I can't imagine that it is easy video to get. Probably why there hardly is any.

 

[dudemanspecial]

I think its pretty widely accepted at this point that the most important thing to get right when nymphing is to get it in their face at the same speed as the current.

 

[TerrellBFly]

This, in my opinion, is why jig flies are becoming more prevalent. Not only riding hook up (decreases chance of snagging bottom) it also makes them drift in a manner that is a little less "nose up." But, I am not a fish, so therefore, I can only guess.

 

[Tigereye]

Another viewpoint

Nymph Hook Inversion -- And the Myth of the Jig Hook

You don’t need a jig hook to invert the nymph. In fact almost all nymphs invert, especially when weighted with a bead or lead.

troutbitten.com

 

[TerrellBFly]

Another viewpoint

Nymph Hook Inversion -- And the Myth of the Jig Hook

You don’t need a jig hook to invert the nymph. In fact almost all nymphs invert, especially when weighted with a bead or lead.

troutbitten.com

Very interesting. I like the part on the attachment angle. Only thing is I can see this being a variable that is not consistent with casting. Unless you glue your knot to the hook eye, it is going to move. Simply dropping into a bowl is a lot different than a stream with moving water and varying currents. Nonetheless, it does help to see the angle of the dangle!!

 

[Bamboozle]

As long as I catch fish with nymphs (and I do), I could care less how they float or look versus the real thing...

The last time I checked trout eat bread, corn & Powerbait too which looks like nothing natural they have seen drifting by their noses...

 

[gfenlikestolosepasswords]

oddly, the few videos I've seen of mayfly/stonefly shaped nymphs in the water that's exactly what they looked like. Nose up at a 45 degree angle and trying to "swim" by using their whole body vertically not unlike how a dolphin swims versus a shark.

Since I don't believe fish are experts in Latin, I don't profess to know or care what species they were but I suspect that's going to be the fairly common method for ones that are accomplished swimmers to swim in. The ones that aren't probably just sort of roll along 'til they grab something like that fat kid in willy wonka.

Except he didn't grab anything, he got sucked into a giant pipe which is sort of a whole other universe of danger one faces in indoor candy forests. Presumably there were not mayfly nymphs in the chocolate river, although it's been suggested that we each eat about two pounds (which is like 0.9 kilograms) worth of insects a year so maybe there was.

 

[Sylvaneous]

This, in my opinion, is why jig flies are becoming more prevalent. Not only riding hook up (decreases chance of snagging bottom) it also makes them drift in a manner that is a little less "nose up." But, I am not a fish, so therefore, I can only guess.

And I agree...in theory. HOWEVER... do they actually DO this? I'll bet more so than converntional,but i dunno?!? I haven't seen.

 

[sixfootfenwick]

Id love to see the videos

The last one I remember was an old one with Joe Humphries. I can't imagine that it is easy video to get. Probably why there hardly is any.

Here is a small segment, at about the 11:21 mark on...

 

[ChuckofWagon]

Great video.....he makes it look easy!!

 

[TerrellBFly]

Here is a small segment, at about the 11:21 mark on...

Would love to just shadow him and learn.