01-18-2019, 03:24 PM
As much as I like fishing dries it’s just hard to leave so many fish untouched if it’s not productive. I won’t hesitate to pull out and BH nymph. And there are some extremely productive streams that 90% of the time you’ll do lousy if you don’t nymph. Diamond Fork and 6th Water come to mind. Some of my most productive days in Utah with big fish in the mix was throwing size 10 tungsten BH Prince nymphs with my 7.5 ft 3 wt Orvis TLS. That 1.5 ounce rod had enough backbone for those nymphs and I routinely battled 20- 26 inch browns and occasional fat football shaped rainbows in the 3-5 lb range. Even in the rapid water in the middle of 6 Dub it usually would put the brakes on the lunkers before they escaped down some rapids and an additional 5 minute battle. Unfortunately one day hiking out and broke my finger and the rod. The finger healed fine but Orvis replacement was a 8.5 ft 3 wt that was all but useless in the narrow canyons of 6 Dub. Replaced it with a Sage 7.5 4 wt but still miss that Orvis rod today.
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