Tippets: Streamer Retrieve, River Revival, The Teeny Nymph

May 16, 2015 By: Erin Block

  • Switch up your retrieve, advises Tom Rosenbauer. “I’ve found that the fish are often looking for something different,” Rosenbauer writes, “whether it’s a different speed, length, or cadence of strip, or perhaps they don’t want a stripped fly at all.” Via Orvis.
  • After dam removal, a river recovers surprisingly fast, say scientists. The research was recently published in the journal Science. “If you give the fish a chance, if they’re migratory, they will recolonize the streams above dams,” says study co-author Jeff Duda, a biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Via Oregon Public Broadcasting.
  • In a recent post on Tenkara Talk, Jason Klass looks back to an old standby fly pattern: the Teeny Nymph, developed by Jim Teeny in 1962. “The fly is very simple to tie and very economical on materials,” writes Klass. “But I think the real secret to its efficacy is its vague impressionism.”