![]() These flies feature a barbless hook and a very long claw point. Tied with dense steel hooks and tungsten beads, they drop fast into feeding lanes. This competition style euro fly is designed to penetrate the water column quickly and get down to the strike zone and keep them in the strike zone. If you do give it a try, here are some of our favorite euro nymphing patterns that offer strong hook sets and help reduce snagging with their barbless hooks. Nymphing in the European style is incredibly fun and does prove to catch a significant amount of fish. Chances of success are really good in that the hook either lodges into a fishes mouth or a rock. Once they see that bow straighten ever so slightly, they set the hook. But, they keep just enough slack in their line to create a slight ‘bow’ that indicates a fish strike by that ‘bow’ spontaneously tightening. Nymph anglers do this by reducing slack in their line by keeping the rod high with a near taught line. ![]() Here’s a great live demonstration of the Euro Nymphing technique in a stream-setting from some fellow Pennsylvania fly anglers.Įuro Nymphing is a technique of maintaining strict control over your fly line in an effort to detect the slightest of fish strikes. ![]()
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