Country Music, Czech Nymphing, and Tube Jigs

September 23, 2011 By: Marshall Cutchin

“Fly Fishing Jazz” columnist Kirk Deeter draws comparisons between tight line Czech nymphing for trout and tube jigging for bass: “You use heavily weighted nymph flies, cast upstream, maintain tension on the line, and feel the flies drift and tick the bottom as they tumble downstream-when you feel the line come tight, you set the hook.”