Hey friends,
The problem: I would love to use more Nymphs in my local waters, as I expect it to be the more effective way to target trout (over Greylings). Especially last season, I had a hard time catching any sizeable trout on dryfly, but they are there. I assume that's because (positive) there is lots of food in form of Nymphs at any time of the year.
I have watched a lot of advice on YT and I would say in theory I know how this works. Adjusting depths, Match the hatch, taking some time to "fish out" interesting spots.
My main issue is, that most of these videos do not match the reality at my home-water AT ALL.
The water (check the video below): My local river is 4-6 Meters wide, and 3 Meters at deepest, usually between 1-2 Meters. in the current. It's a little to deep to wade comfortably and it's usually just more comfortable to cast from edges.
You have many open spaces but also many spaces that are very restrictive with lots of branches. With Dry- and Wetflies I do squeez in ugly throws and it works. But with Nymphs + (Oros) Strike Indicators my cheeky approaches just dont work.
The water is also rather murky and just spotting fish is almost allways hard to impossible.
This also makes it hard to spot wood IN the water as well as roots. I feel like if I would Nymph so that there is Contact every few throws, I would use up 2-3 Nymphs a day at my current level of experience. There is just that much roots in the water (which is amazing for trout to hide).
This brings me to my overall issue at this point rn: After watching lots of cool YT videos on the topic, I haven't found a technique/approach that is fun and somewhat relaxing to me. I feel like I'm not getting any better at Nymph fishing and I almost exclusively catch small fish on spots where I know they are grouped. But I have 0 success targeting spots that look interesting to me…
Assume that I know the basics and I would catch fish in an easy environment, but I'm missing specific knowledge about Nymphing where it's hard.
Question: What advice would you give me? Should I stick with Try&Error and just bruteforce my way to fish? Or is there something important that I might miss?
THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR TIME AND HELP!
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Boating-YT-Video on a river super similar to mine. It's almost identical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzNPw6JL9JY
Posted by Cantonarita