Fly Fishing the Mono Rig - You Need a Line Hand
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2022
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The green Lazar Line used for the Mono Rig butt section in this video is here:
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Fishing a full Mono Rig system allows for abundant versatility -- but not without the line hand. Unless you’re tight line or euro nymphing at very close range, then your line hand needs to do some work. In truth, it should do a lot of work.
Many tight line anglers miss the importance of their line hand. But just as we strip and hand twist to recover slack with a fly line, the same skills are necessary while fishing a Mono Rig.
There are important reasons to use our line hand, and there are a few ways to do it. This latest Troutbitten video covers it all.
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Brilliant. Setting the bar very high with trout education and footage quality! Revolution in media. Go back 25 years I bought magazines, hungry for knowledge. Now we have amazing media like troutbitten!
That's very kind. Thank you.
Thanks for all you do for the sport. You are making an impact on so many of us & we appreciate it! Keep up the good work!
Thanks very much.
Hey Bro, Awesome video. I like to use a shorter rod 8'6" - 9'6" and developed a similar method with nymphs. I refer to as micro-jigging. I have been corrected multiple times by older fly-fishermen when stripping nymphs, but it catches Trout !
Thanks For The Knowledge !
Stay Motivated !!!
Keep It Tight !!!
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Nice. I wouldn't correct anyone for jigging.
Cheers.
Oh man. This was a great video, I’m really excited for you guys to start regularly uploading. And for the new season of the podcast!
Thanks! Been uploading videos every two weeks since March. That pace will continue. S4 of the pod launches August 14th. Thanks for your support. Cheers.
Thanks for sharing this video. Worked on what you shared here today and I think it really helped me to keep tighter to my flies! ✌🏻🎣
NICE! Good for you.
You and Josh make the best videos I've seen on TH-cam! Both in content and video production. Keep us the awesome work it's really appreciated!!
That's kind. Thanks.
I really enjoy your videos. Very informative and always entertaining. Love the bits at the end. Keep up the excellent work. Thank you.
Right on. Thanks.
Another winner Dom. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Also, your videos are short to the point and well produced. Arguably the best on the web.
Thanks, man.
Thank you for the great educational videos. I have watched them over and over to learn and educate myself on the various techniques and styles to nymph fishing and reading water. The level at which you demonstrate is a valuable tool to someone like myself.
Good stuff
Love the new intro to the videos and this one was really helpful…can’t wait to try out the mono rig this coming monday at a tailwater…this will be the first time I really go out there to nymph
Excellent. Good luck.
Thanks Don, great video once again. A+++
Cheers.
Excited for this video series! Great tips.
Good
I'm not a euro nympher but my takeaway from this video is to cross your laces over before lacing through the speed hooks! I just tried it tonight and my boots didn't need tightening half way through my walk to the first hole. Fantastic!
HA! The laces . . .that's great.
I'm not a euro nympher either. I just fish, usually with a fly, and I fish whatever works best. Keeps it fun.
Cheers.
Dom
Love your work, Dom! You've got plenty of fans in Aus, come for a fish sometime!
Love that
Good stuff, thank you!
Cheers
Love your vids and podcast. Shame one of our fishing regions here in New Zealand doesn't allow a mono rig so I have to use a euro line there and end up using it everywhere to just have one setup. But I will give a mono rig a good run this summer as I have found an easy way to set it up quickly on my normal line. A spanish friend put me onto high viz mono saltwater tapered leaders. They are 15m long and taper from 0.65mm down to 0.35mm. It's high viz orange so I don't even really need a sighter. Can just uni knot it to my fly line and away I go. Keen to hear your thoughts on that setup and if you have tried it before?
Happy to give my thoughts.
I strongly prefer tying my own rigs. Your rig that starts at .65 is too thick, in my opinion. The tapers are never right for me. I'd rather control things with my own build. My butt section starts at .43mm.
Also, what regs do not permit a mono rig? What is the leader length permitted? If the fly line is not outside of the rod tip, you essentially have Mono Rig performance. I prefer a leader long enough to have it in my hand, so the junction is not in the guides, and it is more sensitive. But where regulations do not permit this, then going as long as is allowed is a fine substitute.
Cheers.
@@Troutbitten thanks for your thoughts. I'll definitely test both setups. Might use some rig holders to carry both for quick changing.
The regs in the Taupo region allow for a Max 6m which is around 18ft leader from the fly line so on the bigger water the fly line connection would constantly be running through the guides. My current setup is a euro flyline with a superglue splice straight to 0.30 bicolor sight of 12 foot. That allows me 6 foot of tippet to my furthest fly. The superglue splice is nice and smooth through the guides and holds well. It works well enough but not as smooth as mono would be.
Always watch to the end, lol.
Ha. Right on. Podcasts too, have the outros.
@@Troutbitten Right on. Love those too.
Hey Dom, Have you used the Rio Technical Mono Euro Nymph Fly Line? Just wondering what you think about it. I'm thinking the Technical Mono Nymph Fly Line is a hybrid version of the mono rig. I'm enjoying it. Thanks for the great videos, recommendations, and gear reviews!
Hi Allen. I'm glad you are enjoying it, and you found something that works well for you. If you like it, I would not change.
Because you asked . . . no, I don't care for euro fly lines. They are thicker, sag more, are less powerful and less sensitive than a Mono Rig. They exist as a workaround for FIPS competition rules. For the rest of us, they are an unnecessary handicap and can hold you back by their lack of versatility and more.
Article on all that:
Troutbitten: Euro Fly Lines vs The Mono Rig
troutbitten.com/2021/01/04/euro-nymphing-fly-line-vs-the-mono-rig/
All that said, mono core euro lines beat braided core, for me. At least they have some power.
Cheers.
Nice vid, useful, and I handle my line that way, too. What mono are you using there? It looks green. Ultragreen? Something new?
That's OPST Lazar Line. I use brighter butt sections for videos and Chameleon for day to day fishing.
Excellent video! Way better than that poser old dominion
Okay
Great stuff! Sage rod and reel ? ESN? Mind sharing that setup
That's a Hardy Ultralite, 1004. And a Sage ESN reel.
Sage ESN reel … did you switch?
Good eye. I like the ESN and the TROUT both. You'll see both of them in my videos. Same drag. Different looks. Both full cage and excellent. Cheers.
7:23 do You always throw your line ends to the river? 😕
Ah, but you've made an unfair assumption. That's NOT the line end. That's the fly attached to the line and ready to fish. In fact, I rarely clip my tags, because I use a Davy knot, with nearly zero material waste.
But thanks for your concern . . .
@@Troutbitten Ok, I am sorry about my wrong assumption.