Quote Originally Posted by deathb4disco View Post
Also, 90% of what you read about "nymph fishing" will be about fishing for trout in moving water. Another 9.9% will be about fishing for trout in still waters.

So, if you're not doing a lot of trout fishing, don't lose any sleep over it.
Death, is not just for trout as I am certain you know. To date, I have caught 34 species of fish on euro style nymphing techniques including salt, warm water, temperate, and cold water fish. The technique can easily be adapted to steamers and even used with a spinning rod. The key to the technique is being able to control a natural in current.

Speaking to the OP, Unless you are a fly purest, I would recommend you separate the technique form the fly rod and learn to use it on a long spinning rod and light line. It is much easier to control the drift without dealing with the fly line. I use 9 and 10 foot spinning rods that were built from fly blanks. They are a dream to fish in deep water and heavy current. Once I got the drift, weight, depth control, and strike detection down, I switched back to the fly rod and every thing just fell in place.

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