Czech or Polish Nymphing

[skeets]

thank you guys. im not abondoning it. i just changed for the day to save the few flies i had left, and not get skunked. ill definetely take the advice and tie flies with different weight. instead all real heavy flies as i did. thanks again

quick fix on the river - you could try a make shift solution using soft tungsten putty to increase the weight of your anchor fly, if wanting heavier and running low on flies. you can even, if desperate, convert one of your smaller dropper flies to an anchor by adding a bit to the bead or just in front. no need to carry the full loons container worth with you all the time (unless you use it all the time). roll out some small eggs of the putty about 3/16in bead size and drop them in little 5-10 ml plastic bottle, and drop this into the bottom of your bag/vest/pack for the time you need it. an even cheaper alternative is to drop in 4-5 split shot in the bottom of your bag/vest/pack, and if you run out of anchor flies completely, use the split shot alone as the anchor. you'll forget you even have these until the day it's needed, which will invariably be when the fishing is going off, no one is around to beg gear off, and the trek back to base will finish the day.
best regards
craig

[Montana Angler]

We use tight line techniques all of the time for Montana fly fishing. The advantage of tight line nymphing is the strikes are quickly detected and the trout basically hook themselves. With a traditional dead drift trout often reject the fly so quickly that they are not hooked. The Czech method doesn't work as well on bigger waters since we can't always cast that close - I use more of the techniques pioneered by Joe Humphreys with tuck casts and then leading the flies down the river. When float fishing we often fish nymphs behind the boat at an aggressive angler and sometimes actually apply a downstream mend to impart just a bit of action and also to help detect strikes - deadly.

[Magnet]

Hi Montana . Good post. You guys are well known in the Bozeman area. Glad you are here. Would you say rivers like the Firehole, Galatin and Madison would be typical places your clients would czech nymph?

[SherpaB]

I did do some czech/polish nymphing around $3 and Raynolds, and did very well, but you are right for the slide inn area or the yellowstone or gallatin I would think you got to change up to some long line fast water tactics which are more attune to humphries

[AaronJasper]

You have to do some longer leader stuff it blows the aforementioned techniques out of the water.