The Troutbitten Podcast: Recovering Slack -- Tight Line and Euro Nymphing Skills #4 -- S2, Ep4

(From January 31, 2022) Part four of this Troutbitten Skills Series focuses on recovering slack. To dead drift a nymph, we cast it upstream. And as the river flows downstream, it sends the fly back toward us, creating slack. Usually, we simply pick up that slack and maintain contact with the fly (sometimes directly, sometimes slightly).
Slack maintenance is a critical skill. It’s line management. And if the goal is to be in contact with the nymphs and know where they are -- if this is a tight line rig -- then allowing too much slack in the system destroys everything that we’re working toward.
Managed slack is part of an advanced skill set. And that’s very much what we do by starting with a tuck cast. Then, after sticking the landing, we’re in a great position to continue those advanced skills.
We recover the slack in three ways: by lifting the rod tip, by leading the rod tip, and with the line hand.
My friend, Austin Dando, joins me on Episode Four for an in-depth discussion of these techniques.
We Cover the Following
Maintaining contact
Slipping contact
Letting the river decide
Managed slack
The Lift and Lead
Line hand recovery
The Pulley Retrieve
Trimming the sighter
Dealing with wind
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