Going Bobberless

[riverdog]

Unless you fish small areas of relatively consistent water depth for prolonged periods bobberless is the way to go. Better to start newbies out without an indicator as its a hard crutch to get rid of when only a few minutes to hours of extra experience from the beginning would alleviate the need for it 95 % of the time. But like all crutches it will only slow you down in most situations after the impairment is corrected. To me it's all feel. There maybe rare times fishing I miss a very subtle strike but if my technique allows me to keep the line in the water and quickly present my fly to 5 times as many fish at different depths I'm still going to catch far more fish than fishing the same stream with an indictor. Like everything else in life some will struggle with the finesse needed to do this but ( like I readily admit I do with golfing) but most won't find overly daunting to get the basics down. I've only taught 2 people to fly fish but both were catching 10 plus fish an hour with both dries and as well as forgoing an indicator with nymphing with less tha an hour instruction. Now a lot of that was knowing where to get them on eager fish but if my child at 6 years of age can do it most adults can too. It's also very easily adaptable to silver and king salmon fishing small rivers.
How has your technique and success been since switching?
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