i fish all my streamers down at a 45 degree angle and let them swing across the current giving it small strips every few feet,,,or sometimes ill cast directly across and strip line like a mad man,,that produces a lot of big trout.
Does the wolly bugger need to be bouncing off the bottom? Thanks for the info as well. Also do you use split shot to sink it?
also im going through tippet like a mad man , is that normal in fly fishing ? Every time you have to re rig you tie new knots, is there a way to use some mono to tie up multiple fly's at once
fyi.... if your gonna fish a bugger with an exposed weight bead or barbel eyes, use a sink tip, the use of shot above an exposed weight fly is boarderline flossing, and if you are fishing steelhead an officer can cite you depending on how he feels about it, I know everybody, a fly with eyes or bead the weight is built in so its legal.. call a lawyer if you want.. I use only buggers with unexposed lead wire weight with my shot setups, and sink tips with eyed or beaded streamers.. and don't overlook dead drifting buggers..if your hanging up too much you also can tie the buggers without weight.. this will help.
technicaly..... yes, 9 out of ten troopers wouldn't do or say anything... but if you get that 1... it can be called flossing,... the use of external weight forward of a visiably weighted fly or lure.. beads and bell eyes are tied in, so they should be considered part of the fly.. but sometimes they are not, thats why I use sinktips for trout fishing most of my streamers, but steelhead fishing sometimes really needs that extra shot weight. Its like a corki and yarn drift set-up, lead, leader, floating corki and nuetral yarn= legal, add a piece of splitshot directly against the corki.... your flossing, no matter how long your leader is or the distance between the forward shot and the eye.what about all the guys who use a chunk of lead to dredge the bottom,,,if you taKE THE BEAD OFF THEN YOU CAN ADD EXTRA WEIGHT:think:
technicaly..... yes, 9 out of ten troopers wouldn't do or say anything... but if you get that 1... it can be called flossing,... the use of external weight forward of a visiably weighted fly or lure.. beads and bell eyes are tied in, so they should be considered part of the fly.. but sometimes they are not, thats why I use sinktips for trout fishing most of my streamers, but steelhead fishing sometimes really needs that extra shot weight. Its like a corki and yarn drift set-up, lead, leader, floating corki and nuetral yarn= legal, add a piece of splitshot directly against the corki.... your flossing, no matter how long your leader is or the distance between the forward shot and the eye.