Rules for the River

[redietz]

I normally work upriver when I'm nymphing. When using an indicator, once the fly is downstream of you, the fly tends to go along faster than the indicator, thus your indicator won't pause or dunk when a fish takes the nymph, since the pause of the fish take, creates slack in the line rather than pulling on the indicator.

I think he's talking about in steelhead streams where the accepted rule of etiquette is to work downstream, and keep moving.

I agree that nymphing upstream is more effective than downstream. And in a trout stream, where people fish in both directions, that person has the right of way. In the specific case that he's talking about, however, the upstream fisher is definitely buckling traffic.