Weight Flymphs?

[Eight Thumbs]

Hey Folks,

I was getting ready to sit down a tie up a bunch of flymphs this afternoon when I decided to do a little reading in Dave Hughes' book "Wet Flies: Tying and Fishing Soft Hackles, Winged and Wingless Wets, and Fuzzy Nymphs. Hughes says that he likes to tie ALL his flymphs on 2X stout hooks and that one of their major attractions is having all that spikely hair get caught in the surface film. He doesn't like them to go too deep apparently.

Is there anyone here who likes their flymphs weighted or even heavily weighted for a little bottom dredging? I was planning to tie them small and heavy for winter conditions. Good idea? Bad idea? What's you're 2% of a dollar? 8T

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You had better learn to be a happy camper. You only get one try at this campground and it's a real short camping season.

[Jim Hatch]

Hey Thumbman,

I like to get my flies down to where the
fish are in a timely manner. In the winter,
I usually fish weighted flies here. I'll
usually tie my winter flies in a weighted
version and an unweighted, or lightly
weighted depending on the pattern. I use
different color threads for the head so as
to tell them apart. I hate using weight
like splitshot to get them down. But when
we put a couple of milder days together
even in January or February, my fish will
often come much shallower and even into the
banks. A heavily weighted fly catches more
bottom than fish then. So yes, I like to
fish weighted flies in winter, but I also
like to have some unweighted in case the
fish move shallower. My $.02. Warm regards, Jim