Article: TROUT BUMS -- Dry-fly nobbery comes and goes

For years after I started fly-fishing, I always fished dry. I mean, I fished on top, not that I wasn't drinking. (I wasn't, but that's not what I meant.)

It wasn't that I was a dry-fly snob; back then, if I wanted to fish deep, I just got out my spinning outfit and used it. I put away my spinning rig for good quite a few years ago. Now if I want to fish deep, I get out my nymph rig. I will put lead split shot on my leader if necessary and, yes, I still consider it fly-fishing.

There are different ways to nymph. I almost always do it the same way; with an indicator (spin fishermen call them bobbers -- there isn't really much difference) and, if necessary, split shot. Most of the nymphs I ...

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