I make no claims of being the sharpest knife in the drawer… That said, Can anyone enlighten me as to the differances between whats called “Chechs nymphing” and the venerable “Brooks Method”… Just curious as to weather I might be missing out on some catching that I’ve pretty much largely ignored… nope pretty much never even gave CN a passing thought, Till I found myself skimming over an article today…Seemed to me its something I knew under a diffenent name…
i think the “brooks method”, “high sticking” and “czech nymphing” are pretty much similar to each other with a different name.
“brooks method”
scroll up in the link above and youll find “high sticking”
Norman, in Czech nymphing don’t they drag the nymphs through the water a little faster than the current?
thats why i said “pretty much similar to each other” not “exactly” the same.
not always
see “how we fish”
Dragging through the water slightly faster than the current…i don’t know how old the Czech nymphing technique is but the ‘dragging’ tech has been around for a good long time. Maybe 60 or 70 years or more…some may relate it to ‘Leisenringing’ too. They say there’s nothing new under the sun but under the water…well…
Cheers,
MontanaMoose
Yeah I’m thinking it goes the way of the forweighted bucktail streamer… if ya make the weight in a different shape… say like a dumbell… you can tack on another name… the Leisering lift is wholey different from the brooks method…your not trying to hold the bottom… but make the offering rise from the bottom as a hatching caddis would… That I can grasp the differance of…
Around my old home waters they talked about the ‘upstream shortline’ method. A well known local that guided, had a motel and flyshop taught it to clients all the time. Shortline meant only a few feet of line out the tiptop plus the 9 or so foot leader was all that was ‘flipped’ straight upstream ahead of ones position. I’m not sure about keeping up with the slack but for me it was combination stripping and then as the nymph or streamer got close to my position i’d slowly sweep and lift the rod tip to one side, flip downstream then back upstream, all the while marching upstream.
Once a trout big or small was hooked and with such a short leash on them, it was easy to keep them close and under control, playing them quickly in for the release. Once i started nymphing this way my catch rate went way up and i was often surprised at the places trout would be that i never bothered with before, thinking i had to have my fly 10 feet deep. Seemed like the shallower the water i’d try, the better i’d do. Little plunge pools were a favorite. Maybe i should take up nymphing again. Heh, heh.
Cheers,
MontanaMoose