Nymph Fishing
Techniques
By Brett Fogle
Small stream nymphing is a very productive
form of fly fishing. At times, you will not rise a
fish to a dry fly. Yet
there are fish feeding actively below the surface. So,
you put the fly (nymph) to the fish.
Nymph fishing
is probably the most challenging of all fly fishing techniques.
Since the fly is underwater and is often extremely small, nymph
fishing can test the abilities of any angler, and often leaves
the beginner angler extremely frustrated. Yet, the ability of
having a good nymph fishing technique is essential for
productive trout fishing. The reason for this is simple – most
trout have a diet that consists primarily of sub-surface
insects (nymphs). An angler who does not know how to nymph fish
will be greatly limited on where they can fish and what they
use.
This article
will hopefully provide some information for any angler who is
in search of how to improve their nymph fishing abilities while
fly fishing.
While this
article provides more information than any other resource on
the Internet about fly fishing with nymphs, ultimately, the
only way to learn this technique is to go out and do it. From
initial frustrations will come mastery over time. What exactly
is Nymph Fishing?
Let’s start
at the basics. Nymphs are, as defined by the Meriam-Webster
dictionary: "any of various immature insects; especially: a
larva of an insect (as a grasshopper, true bug, or mayfly) with
incomplete metamorphosis that differs from the imago especially
in size and in its incompletely developed wings and
genitalia"
In everyday
terms, nymphs are aquatic insects that are still in their
underwater stage, as in not yet having reached their adult, or
flying stage of life. One thing worth remembering is that, if
you enjoy dry fly fishing, all the flies you see on the water
are adult insects. These insects have "grown up" from their
underwater stage and have taken to the air for their mating
rituals. In essence, dry fly fishing involves using fly
imitations that involve imitations of the adult aquatic insect
(such as a mayfly, caddis fly or stonefly). By contrast, when
nymph fly fishing, the angler attempts to imitate the younger,
underwater stage of these exact same flies.
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