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I had some good luck the other day fishing a dry and letting the fly sink and sight fishing it. I had way more strikes when the fly was 2 inches below the surface of the water. So you could just fish a nymph without an indicator. Also my favorite way to fish is to tie on a larger dry (10-12) and fish a nymph behind it. Just tie a foot of tippet to the back of the hook and tie on the nymph. Usually I used lightly weighted nymphs so that the dry doesn't sink. It sucks when you are fishing an indicator and a fish strikes your indicator. This eliminates that from happening. You can fish one nymph, but two gives you more odds to hook up. This picture is how I usually fish two nymphs, but with too much weight on the Crooked you will be hooking into some algae.
when i use 2 small nymphs,,,i will cut 12 to 14 inches off my tippet then retie it with a surgeons knot leaving one tag end i attach an emerger and at the bottom ill tie another nymph and in between i will add a split shot or two,,,,,,,,,if your fishing with bigger nymphs the diagram fisherwilly put up is great.
Also when fishing only nymphs with an indicator do i need to emulate the way the real insect/bug would move in the river with my rod or will the current and the bottom of the river take care of that. I think i might have found the answer to my own question. From what i read only certain nymphs and bugs you have to do this to , does this sound correct?