Quote Originally Posted by sagefisher View Post
Drag free is the key to nymphing. Mostly the fish are feeding on nymphs of one kind or another, they see them every day. They dislodge them when they are flashing (turning semi-sideways to dig down into the rocks). So, they really know what food should look like when it is coming downstream towards them. If you have drag on your flies, they will not look natural. The vast majority of their food is flowing by right on the bottom unless they are looking up for emergers or a hatch. So, yes, you bounce the flies along the bottom. Sure you will snag up and sometimes you will leave flies behind, but that is fishing. But, on the end of the drift, be it long ling drifting on some of our larger rivers, or high sticking it, Czeching or whatever you want to call it, always let the flies swing up to the surface, like an emerger.

Larry ---sagefisher---


Larry,
Like I said, except for nymphing much closer to the fisher, and using several nymphs at once, how does it differ from the age-old Leiserling Lift method??