Spring has sprung and it’s time to get outside get outside, bulk up on your Vitamin D, and sling some flies to frisky trout on your favorite stream. The season has already presented every opportunity to use to your favorite technique. Everyone loves to fish dries to feeding fish, but sometimes you just have to take the bug to where they live. Nymphing with an indicator is undeniably effective, and now we have so many choices in indicators it makes my head spin. Yes, we are in the golden age of indicators.
Trapped air technology has been the hot ticket lately; very little weight on the leader and an indicator that holds a tremendous amount of weight for its size. Available in a variety of sizes to meet you needs. Now you can fish two big, burly, weighted bugs with no worries of sending your indicator to depths. Thingamabobbers are the ticket and attached to the leader by looping it on like many indicators of the past.
Now we have new line of indicators that allow you to easily attach the indicator by tightening a screw around a loop of leader. The Screw-Ball is hard foam, the Sungicator is for the yarn lover, or the Under-Cator features trapped air technology with a flanged-tipped screw for easy tightening or removal. O-rings effectively protect you leader in all these products.
I have found these products wonderful when I take off with one rod on a wading trip and will face a hatch at some point in the day. I want to be able to quickly remove my indicator and get a dry fly in the water to feeding fish. If you use indicators check out these new products.
TT
“Trapped air technology” – hahhahha, This term is so ridiculous! I’m going to start referring to my coffee as “Energized Liquid Technology”…
Send me two dozen of assorted sizes, please. Not that I, personally, will fish these devilish gizmos. Not me. These are for a friend. Really.
Gizmos…. Got to have them. Haven’t heard that term for a while. The old guy that taught me how to rope used to say: You need to keep whatjamacallits, thingamajigs, gizmos and all that silly shiny hardware away from your horse, dogs, fishin’ and your woman. Now I figure at least one of you guys is breaking one of these rules right now. But this trapped air technology has been around for years. Been using it every time I cook up a big pot of my steak strip beanless Texas chili. So hot it makes your eyes water when I take the cover off to stir it…..but oh so good. We won’t go into it any more. Just don’t spill it on a new T shirt or freshly paint drift boat.
chili so hot you’d have to shit in the creek to keep from burnin’ the woods down