But nymphs are the flies of choice by serious anglers. And at times, if you want to catch fish instead of just tossing dry flies, you too should be a serious angler. I tend to use tippet a bit stronger than my leader. You will hear to keep your tippets as short as possible to avoid tangles but I don't buy into that. Select a depth to which you want your fly to pass and make the tippet length correspond.
Some anglers use a third fly.
Bring extra tippet and leaders. At first you are going to get tangled up and lose a lot of tippet. Check your connections for frays, knots, tangles, wrap-ups. BB-size split shot. Click here to view the archived articles.