Troutnut Forum > Fly Tying Discussion > What Do You Think About Circle Hooks For Nymphing?
| Flybyknight | November 25th, 2007, 5:20 am | |
| Milton, DE Posts: 65 | Assuming that your local fly shop stocks circle hooks in #6 & #8, would you consider tying nymphs with these? For your consideration, here is a link to a site you probably already know about, but for the benefit of those just getting started: http://www.mustad.no/action/fishing_tips/czech_nymph1.htm Dick | |
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| SlateDrake9 | November 26th, 2007, 10:07 am | |
| Potter County, PA Posts: 48 | I wouldn't for the simple reason that I can probably count on 1 hand how many trout I have hooked deeper than the lip in the last 10 years or so flyfishing, especially nymph fishing. Most of my deeper hooked fish have come from late evening/early night spinner fishing where I didn't set the hook quickly enough since I couldn't see my fly anymore. | |
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| JOHNW | November 27th, 2007, 7:59 pm | |
| Chambersburg, PA Posts: 162 | I've toyed with them for streamer patterns for smallmouth and stripers with fair success although the field testing is still in it's infancy. The problem I forsee with using circle hooks for more traditional trout applications is they require a tagret species that grabs the "bait" and turns to swim away. Unfortunatly trout generally do not fit this profile. Now if I'm bottom fishing for catfish or various salt specieswhere live or cut bait is the order of the day I only use circle hooks and feel they far outperform traditional "j" hooks interms of avoiding deep hookups. Jus my humble .02$ JW | |
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| Flybyknight | November 28th, 2007, 6:24 am | |
| Milton, DE Posts: 65 | Now John brings up an interesting point about trout spitting out a fly. We have all seen this, inhale-spit-out in 1/10 sec. Intuition (false?)tells me that an offset hook would be more effective than a circle, but I'm perplexed by these Czech guys winning competitions big time with circle hooks; but then again I am no Czech tournament fisherman. Dick | |
| Lightly on the dimpling eddy fling; the hypocritic fly's unruffled wing. Thomas Scott | ||
| JOHNW | November 28th, 2007, 8:00 am | |
| Chambersburg, PA Posts: 162 | I think part of the difference with the Czech nymphing (and Polish Nymphing to a lesser degree) is that you are actually pulling the fly slightly faster than the current so it ends up producing the "turn effect". Another factor to consider is that in European fly fishing competition circles trout are not typically the target species. Usually attention is focused on grayling which I'm told behave rather differently than our more familiar trout species. JW | |
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| LittleJ | November 28th, 2007, 5:24 pm | |
| Hollidaysburg Pa Posts: 132 | John has it right as far as the czech nymphing technique goes, and the reason behind it is because grayling watch the "food" go past them then turn around and approach it from behind. That is how it was explained to me by a gentleman who fishes in the international tourneys. Jeff | |
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