08-08-2019, 10:55 AM
W&B,
Most people fish the way there told to, not what works well with experience. Few people actually are willing to innovate and adjust fishing techniques to the waters they fish. That’s why we have suboptimal Tenkara as a fad a few years ago and now are just getting over the Euronymphing fad now. Neither of those fads were well suited for most/ ?any Utah waters.
First off I always have various size tippets with me fly fishing but in reality the vast majority of the time I don’t use tippet. It’s just one more step that doesn’t always serve any purpose if your goal is to catch fish. Yes it can break off sometimes but take a step back and ask why it’s being used and compare catch rates with and without tippet in various situations. I personally usually use a fluorocarbon leader and tie my fly directly to that. Now with smaller dries (which aren’t needed much outside a few of our streams that trout concentrate on eating midges/ gnats) I will use tippet. Fortunately this isn’t needed on 90% of Utah waters.
Reminds me of the YouTube video of a fishing pro from Utah that compared catch rates with single fly versus 2 fly rig. He thought he had a new revelation in that his data supported that a single fly will almost universally out fish the rig. To most people they think that because they catch fish on both flies they are doing better. His revelation was pretty obvious to me after my first 2 years experience fly fishing. I dropped routine use of tippet even earlier than that.
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Most people fish the way there told to, not what works well with experience. Few people actually are willing to innovate and adjust fishing techniques to the waters they fish. That’s why we have suboptimal Tenkara as a fad a few years ago and now are just getting over the Euronymphing fad now. Neither of those fads were well suited for most/ ?any Utah waters.
First off I always have various size tippets with me fly fishing but in reality the vast majority of the time I don’t use tippet. It’s just one more step that doesn’t always serve any purpose if your goal is to catch fish. Yes it can break off sometimes but take a step back and ask why it’s being used and compare catch rates with and without tippet in various situations. I personally usually use a fluorocarbon leader and tie my fly directly to that. Now with smaller dries (which aren’t needed much outside a few of our streams that trout concentrate on eating midges/ gnats) I will use tippet. Fortunately this isn’t needed on 90% of Utah waters.
Reminds me of the YouTube video of a fishing pro from Utah that compared catch rates with single fly versus 2 fly rig. He thought he had a new revelation in that his data supported that a single fly will almost universally out fish the rig. To most people they think that because they catch fish on both flies they are doing better. His revelation was pretty obvious to me after my first 2 years experience fly fishing. I dropped routine use of tippet even earlier than that.
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