Quote Originally Posted by jszymczyk View Post
One definite advantage is for snags(on rocks, not fish)- quite often the sinker is what gets snagged, not the hook, and with split shot on the bottom rig, if they get snagged they can just be pulled off and your fly will be free.
I had thought of that as well and that's another thing I like about the idea. To be clear, I'm not talking about any more weight than would normally be used in a "standard" dead drifted nymphing rig, I'm just talking about repositioning it. There is a type of nymphing called "bounce nymphing" that I've read about before and that may have even been discussed here a time or two. It employs considerably more weight than normal and lets the indicator drag or "bounce" the rig through a run, but I'm not envisioning anything quite like that.