I’ve noticed that I have been losing a much higher percentage of hooked fish euro nymphing as opposed to dry or indicator fishing. Today I hooked quite a few fish, and only netted about half of them. Lost a couple good ones seemingly just from them moving around under tension and not jumping. Is this just the cost of using beadhead barbless flies?
Posted by domdude3302
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Can’t really give you an answer. When I nymph I’m usually using barbless jig head nymphs and rarely lose fish, unless they jump and shake their heads
I rarely loose fish(probably around 5%) euro style/factory barbless but when I do it’s usually when I am using a size 12 or smaller. I find anything smaller then sz 10 with the size beads I use the hook gap can get crowded and that’s what I attribute to loosing fish. That is my 2c, I fish in an area that only allows a single fly so it’s usually a 5+ mm tungsten bead.
Also one reason I will downsize to smaller flies is when the water has dropped and the bugs are going I also think that the fish develop such a feel for real bugs they will spit stuff with a bead on it quickly so when you get a take the window is smaller and it results in poorer hooksets and fish can shake free much easier.
Those are my thoughts.