12-03-2012, 11:49 PM
The putty is crap from my experience- don't bother.
I like weighted flies. Can get the fly down deeper in quicker water with tungsted or lighten up the weight of the fly if dragging the bottom more than wanted. I still have shot if needed on top of that occasionally for deeper holes. However I think I get a better drift that entices more strikes in moving water with weighted flies.
There are other things than the weight of your fly, shot or line that can influence where your nymph is in the water column. Selecting where to cast into a run and how loose or taunt to keep the line through various parts of the run can help dial into the desire depth. If you aren't doing this tight lining your fishing 2-dimensions and really missing out on a big advantage of this over fishing with a rig. It's the ability to fish 3-D without have to constantly change around your rig that sets tight lining apart from using a rig. Not so important on bigger waters common out of state or if fishing a limited area between others on the middle Provo. But if you have room to cover and presenting your fly to many more fish in the same time tight lining can be deadly. You'd have to adjust a rig hundreds of times an hour to cover the water column in a comparable way to what I do tight lining with little or no adjustment. And then you'd have your fly out of the water much more of the time not catching fish. Don't confuse the limitations of using heavy Czech nymphs 2 D presentation to what can be done with others form of tight lining.
Tight lining isn't just feel vs vision with an indicator. You should be using both your sense of touch and vision in both types of fishing.
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I like weighted flies. Can get the fly down deeper in quicker water with tungsted or lighten up the weight of the fly if dragging the bottom more than wanted. I still have shot if needed on top of that occasionally for deeper holes. However I think I get a better drift that entices more strikes in moving water with weighted flies.
There are other things than the weight of your fly, shot or line that can influence where your nymph is in the water column. Selecting where to cast into a run and how loose or taunt to keep the line through various parts of the run can help dial into the desire depth. If you aren't doing this tight lining your fishing 2-dimensions and really missing out on a big advantage of this over fishing with a rig. It's the ability to fish 3-D without have to constantly change around your rig that sets tight lining apart from using a rig. Not so important on bigger waters common out of state or if fishing a limited area between others on the middle Provo. But if you have room to cover and presenting your fly to many more fish in the same time tight lining can be deadly. You'd have to adjust a rig hundreds of times an hour to cover the water column in a comparable way to what I do tight lining with little or no adjustment. And then you'd have your fly out of the water much more of the time not catching fish. Don't confuse the limitations of using heavy Czech nymphs 2 D presentation to what can be done with others form of tight lining.
Tight lining isn't just feel vs vision with an indicator. You should be using both your sense of touch and vision in both types of fishing.
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