Field Guide
Techniques
Conditions, rig, execution, what goes wrong, and what to watch for.
Techniques
2 pages
phishing
Technique · Dry and Nymph
Dry-dropper
A buoyant dry with a weighted nymph hung beneath it — the rig that covers the fish looking up and the fish on the bottom with one cast, and the one this guide fishes most on alpine creeks and pocket water.
phishing
Technique · Nymph
Nymphing pocket water
How to fish a weighted nymph through broken current — the rig, the two ways to see the take, the drift that matches the fish's current rather than your line's, and the three mistakes that leave trout sitting where you just walked.