I mean who doesn’t love untangling knot after knot before even getting the bugs to the water let alone even casting them? All jokes aside today was a frustrating one and hopefully you guys and gals here can laugh about it or maybe give me tips to avoid this from happening in the future. Was running a frenchy above a rainbow warrior and they must’ve had magnets in each other they just wanted to hangout and wrap tippet around each other. 2nd pic is just my first ever catch on a streamer from earlier this morning. Nbd lol
Posted by Formal_Froyo_6089
6 Comments
I feel your pain.
Casting less is the solution. Lob the flies into the beginning of the run, make your drift, let the line come tight, lob again. No false casts. Time spent with your nymph rig in the air and time spent untangling nymph rigs are directly related.
Quit false casting entirely. Water load your rod and then chuck it once from there.
Reminder that it is legal to fish 1 nymph. You will get less tangles from casting and your 1 nymph is probably getting a better drift than your two nymphs pulling on each other in the current
+1 on water haul/lobbing. It was tricky for me because I started out casting dries so I tried the same method with nymphs and just tangles on tangles. Water haul makes things so much easier. At most I’ll sometimes do a single overhead cast (on a single nymph setup), but 99% of the time I’m water hauling.
Not sure if you’re on fresh gear but line/leader memory is a thing incase that’s whats making the line coil
Before each session I just run my fingers over my line and pull it tight and straight, I’m guilty of re-using my leaders too much and this makes them coil less