Czech Nymphing for bass.....

[DShock]

Buddy,
QUOTE; .
Well, sort of.

I've been playing with a warm water variation of the czech nymphing technique.

Heavy jig type fly with a baitfish pattern about 12 inches above it (both weedless).

Long, level leader that's about 1 1/4-1 1/2 the rod length.

Fish with the fly line just out the rod tip. End Quote.

I watched the TV Show "Hunt For Big Fish" today and Larry Dahlberg was short lining jig head Zonkers for Pike in Saskatchewan Canada. It was early in the season and it was the only method that worked because the Pike were lock jawed.
Doug

[billknepp]

I sorta thought this was a "standard Practice" in the spring of the year, atleast, It has been for quite some time for myself and a couple friends for quite sometime..I mean the short lining and heavy flies...I like this when the smallies on the lower penn's are still lumbering in their wintering holes and not so willing to chase down a meal just yet. Dredging the seems, dropoff's and bolder edges in this manner has alway's proved nearly the only way to catch very... early in the year!
As well as fishing channels/submerged creek bed's in lakes...

[drolfson]

Buddy;

I am glad you posted this thread. I have been thinking about the same thing lately myself. I was thinking of putting the SEM Sculpin at the terminal end with some form if hare's ear or czech nymph or something a foot or two above that. Then I was going looking for some large Gills up close to the weeds and structure.

I got this idea rolling around in my head cause last fall on a couple of really windy days I could not cast, so I figured I would grab a few little gills in close. Well, I tied on a fairly heavy Hare's Ear and dropped it about 10 feet offshore by the weeds that were dying and started catching some pretty dang noce gills. That got me to thinking, maybe I had been missing out on the 'good' fishing in the last few weeks trying to fish out further.

[Flyandtie1]

Hey guys,

A great podcast is available, features Joe Cornwall tying a warmwater Czech Nymph. I downloaded it and it is definately good, The video quality is great. The warmwater version is basically less weighted.

It is a Fly Fish Ohio Podcast. Just open up the Itunes store and type in "Fly Fish Ohio Podcast" and it will come up. Pick the one about Czech Nymphs and download it. then watch the video. I put it on my Ipod, to take to the bench and set it on a docking station to watch the movie as I tie.

[idabelangler]

That sounds like a grand old southern fly fishing method my Granddad would use, we called it dapping for bass.