Terminal tackle you don’t need for tenkara

Written by Jason

After recently rewatching Ralph Cutter’s excellent Bugs of the Underworld DVD, I came to three conclusions:

1. Nymphs are more buoyant than I thought
2. Nymphs move more than I thought
3. The way I’ve been fishing subsurface flies for the last twenty years doesn’t make sense at all

Like many, I was taught early on that the best way to fish nymphs was with a strike indicator, split shot, and with a perfect dead drift right on the bottom.  I spent a lot of time adjusting my rig trying to get the fly as deep as possible and eliminate drag. The perfect drag-free drift became my obsession.

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