The Troutbitten Podcast: Finding Contact -- Tight Line and Euro Nymphing Skills #5 - S2, Ep5

(From February 6, 2022) Part five of this Troutbitten Skills Series is about finding contact. Because after the tuck cast, after we stick the landing and begin to recover slack, we need to find contact on sighter.
Contact is visual. It's about reading the sighter to know that we are in touch with the flies from rod tip to the nymph or split shot. It's not about touching or ticking the riverbed. Instead, the contact we're looking for is seen on the sighter.
With contact, we know everything about the depth and speed of our flies. We know where they are, and we determine where they are going. That's the advantage of a tight line (contact) nymphing system.
Importantly, this does not mean we are directly in touch at all times with the fly, because we often get better drifts without such direct influence over the nymphs. But without contact at points through the drift (and sometimes the whole way) we are simply guessing about the location of the flies. To take advantage of the ultimate control that tight line and euro nymphing rigs offer, we must learn to read contact on the sighter -- to know we are in touch and know where the flies are.
Reading the sighter and finding contact is critical.
My friend, Austin Dando, joins me on episode five for an in-depth discussion of this technique.
We Cover the Following
Contact is seen, not felt
Reading the sighter
Sighter material and construction
The Backing Barrel
The bow in the sighter
Nervous sighter
Seeing beyond the sighter
Contact let's us trust the sighter
Forcing contact
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