Jon,

Whenever I talk to people about indicators I always answer this way, " Only use them if you want to catch fish." Honestly, they aren't strike indicators as much as they are depth and drift regulators. On 90% of the rivers I nymph, they provide me a way of regulating the depth of the nymphs I'm fishing. They also allow me to fish the nymphs at the exact feeding lane of the trout. Trout aren't always feeding on the very bottom of the water table. There are times they feed near the top 25% of the water table, and getting the fly to them requires an indicator to suspend them.


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Jude
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