Strike indicators???

[FarmerDave]

For the record, I never said a thermometer was a good thing. I don't carry one. A thermometer should go nowhere near lasagna.

 

[Festus]

thats a damned good idea fester.... where's kin i gits me summa dat der samon juce?

Would that be pink shrimp flavor, or italian cheese with or without garlic? 🙂

 

[jayL]

Festus, it's clearly garlic. Come on now.... you know better than to ask that question on a board where lasagna is the hottest topic.

Now on to the main point.

Indicator fishing was the first nymphing method I learned. I use them on long runs and riffles where I need to get the longest possible slack line drift. If I'm high sticking or tight line nymphing a short run or section then I don't use them.

I'm open about the fact that they largely performing a pretty bobberish function when I use them in the long slick runs like that, but guess what.... I'm fishing so I don't care too much.

I also use them to drift pupae and midges to suspended fish, and occasionally i use them during HEAVY feeding during midge hatches so I know when my fly was actually taken... though I should probably just tie hi-vis midges.

 

[limestone]

I like to use the stick-on foam indicators due to the fact that they are: 1) small and light, and thus easy to cast with 2)highly visible 3)extremely buoyant. Obviously, the knock on stick-ons is that you can't really adjust them easily, but I have had moderate success moving them up or down my leader. I like using them in water where I pretty much know how deep I need my flies to be. When I'm not having success and don't want to try to adjust the indicator, I just use a longer piece of tippet for the dropper. When I'm fishing somewhere I've never been before I'll usually go with a yarn indicator, as its shares many of the same qualities of stick-on indicators with the exception of consistent buoyancy, which in these cases I'll sacrifice for easy adjustments.

When I'm fishing tiny dries or midges, I like to use a big attractor or a larger, more visible version of whats hatching as opposed to an indicator. Sometimes when theres a lot of flies on the water the fish will go for the bigger fly.

And using indicators is definitely not cheating 😎

 

[Coughlin]

I have a couple of lines where I've whipped a loop in the flyline for loop to loop attachment with the leader and use bright red thread coated with flexment to make the loop. On other lines I'll use pinch-on indicators. I am of the "all the help I can get" school :-D
Coughlin

 

[ryanh]

"little balloons are the best."

Bruno,
You are leaving out the fact that you tie your balloons to look like a #14 parachute sulphur. :lol:

I can only make a sword and giraffe out of my balloons, but the trout don't look impressed.

 

[JoeE]

I don’t use them because I don’t like them. That said, Dave, everyone knows that your favorite color is the same as mine “Tweed”.

Joe E

 

[FarmerDave]

JoeE wrote:
I don’t use them because I don’t like them. That said, Dave, everyone knows that your favorite color is the same as mine “Tweed”.

Joe E

Well, at least now I know where you stand about giving up secrets. :-D

 

[JoeE]

Now I did it, I’m going to lose my clearances over this. Any work in Ohio.



Joe E.