Quote Originally Posted by Steven View Post
I guess I don't see why this should be surprising.

The results aren't particularly surprising to me. But a good number of folks seem to think that long leaders and tippets are necessary for whatever reason, among them to keep brightly colored lines and leaders away from the fly. The experiment and posting it here was for their information.

Isn't one typical streamer rig something like a sink tip with 2' of tippet?

Fishing a streamer on a sink tip is a rather different situation than a nymph and 2' of tippet is a whole different ball game than 1" ....

If the line doesn't scare the fish when it hits the water or on entry, I'm sure it's just some more debri coming through.

... but both make the point that there is often a lot of stuff in the water and the fishies are used to seeing all manner of things and aren't bothered by them, and as an assumption on my part, as long as they are drifting naturally with the currents.
This isn't an approach that I would expect to use unless some very odd circumstances suggested it would enhance the prospects of catching a fish, but it is information worth having.

John