05. How to Fish a Nymph & Indicator

In this episode of RIO's "How To" series, RIO marketing coordinator Russ Miller explains how to "fish a nymph & indicator" in a river. As easy as this sounds, Russ's tips will certainly help improve the skills and catch rate for most anglers.
RIO's "How To" videos are a series of short films that explain all you need to know to learn a particular way to fish, or cast. Where applicable, each film talks through the gear that you need, shows how to rig the gear, how to read the water, and how to fish that particular technique.
These invaluable lessons for the fly fisher are packed with information and top tips, and each one is bought to you by a RIO employee or a RIO brand ambassador.

[@davids11131113]

So many people at the end of the drift just rip the rig up and recast, let the nymph rise slowly off the bottom many fish are caught on that end drift rise.

[@robinred1851]

I stopped using a indicator two years ago. Since then I just watch the end of the flyline. Presentation is much better, more natural, which ends in many more takes, so many more fish in the net. For me no more indicator. Greetings and tight lines 🎣 from the Čech Republic 🇨🇿.

[@tomm6431]

Good advice on hook set. Rio explains why they design a fly line.

[@Kajanaclub]

Beautiful location. Thanks for the strike indicator advice :)

[@jsboyle3459]

Nice video very helpful👍🏻

[@PaddlingIowa]

Really enjoy these videos!

[@RIOPRODUCTS]

Glad you like them!

[@jtepsr]

Beautiful piece of water

[@propbraker]

Nice video, I like your products by the way! If you're able to please show the set-up spread out on a table, so we can see everything and get a better idea of how everything looks next time. Thanks!

[@noelslater822]

Great information. Thank you

[@RIOPRODUCTS]

You're welcome!

[@gottogofishing4929]

Cool Spot

[@schadowolf]

Recently found your channel, great vids, subbed.

[@RIOPRODUCTS]

Thank you!

[@danclements1990]

thank you!

[@RIOPRODUCTS]

Sure thing, thanks

[@onemorething100]

You must have the greatest job in the world.

[@chriscox1618]

Thanks for the informational vid! What type of gloves were those?

[@RIOPRODUCTS]

Simms "bugstopper" gloves

[@Bigu4300]

It's still bobber fishing! Great video!

[@sirmegallot3276]

Tight line nymphing is more tactile and takes finesse, this is just better for beginners or those switching over from spin fishing perhaps.

[@jifigz]

@@sirmegallot3276 I disagree. There is a time, place, and type of water better suited to tightline/highsticking/euro nymphing and there is a time, place, and type of water better suited to indicator fishing. Through experience you'll know when to use which one.

[@ReedL101]

How is the Xtreme Indicator line for other types of fishing? Say dries or streamers?

[@RIOPRODUCTS]

It's aggressive, so works really well with big stuff. Streamers would be totally fine, as would large terrestrial type dry flies (grasshoppers), but would be pretty poor with the usual size 16 Adams type of dry fly.

[@porjiboi]

It’s okay to handle fish with gloves on? I just assumed that I should take them off.

[@dennyterrio1942]

Put a bell on it

[@ThreePeakFilms]

"nice high rod tip" at 4:32 There's a fish that rises up stream

[@Dannyboi01]

Wow good eye ! I would never have gotten that !

[@alanpartridge6943]

Hi great vid, could you tell me what gloves you are wearing please

[@RIOPRODUCTS]

Those are the Buff sun gloves

[@alanpartridge6943]

@@RIOPRODUCTS hi sorry to torture you, i can't find the gloves anywhere, could you tell me where exactly you got them, I'm in the uk perhaps that's the problem, thanks for your help and patience.

[@RIOPRODUCTS]

Here is a link to the gloves on the Buff website: buffusa.com/shop-buff/gloves-category.html

[@alanpartridge6943]

@@RIOPRODUCTS they must not make the ones your wearing any more, ah well i appreciate your help anyway thanks

[@savagecarnivore4699]

I live in Idaho Falls and every time I try to fish the south fork the river is deep and fast. Is there a stretch where a guy who doesn’t own a boat can wade?

[@RIOPRODUCTS]

One great place is around Heise bridge - upstream on downstream. You can access some good flats near the Cress creek car park too - crossing the canal and heading onto the island and to the river the other side. Another is around Twin bridges - on the island. Good luck!

[@savagecarnivore4699]

RIO Products thanks for the advice!

[@MeGolf92]

Can you tell me the difference between using tippet line or monoline? They both look the same. Lets say 6lb mono compared to 4X tippet. Thanks

[@RIOPRODUCTS]

Tough, but good question! Tippet and mono are really the same thing. "Mono" is an abbreviation for "monofilament" - which is translated as a single strand of filament - it can be nylon or fluorocarbon in the fly fishing world, but the name refers to the material itself. Tippet is a term used for the front part of the leader - basically the "tip" of the leader. It is made of monofilament. These days spools of monofilament are called "tippet" in the US and Mono in Europe, generally, and so mostly interchangeable. You could say "I need to add some tippet to my leader," or "I need to add some mono to my leader", and they would both make sense. What you can't really interchange is "My leader needs a new tippet" (which makes perfect sense), with "My leader needs a new mono(filament)".

[@briankelly6113]

Yeah, at a $100 a pop, I'll carry a bunch of these lines.

[@hogschmidtcaftan]

South fork of the snake?

[@RIOPRODUCTS]

Yup., you've got it!!!

[@chem2850]

Dunk or a quick shuffle...

[@donalwhelan2242]

would be great if the price of Flourocarbon was not so ridiculously high.Why is this? Marketing ?

[@RIOPRODUCTS]

Nope, not marketing at all - just the cost of the raw product

[@vangrindz8650]

The environmental costs of fluorocarbon are ridiculously high too, since it doesn't really break down like monofilament does. Lose a spool of fluoro and wildlife will be tangled up in it for years to come. Not to mention all the smaller lengths that end up in our waterways. Fluoro performs very well, especially for nymphing. But mono is more than good enough in most instances.

[@chrisbenner92]

Sad they didn't get the strike on video

[@martinb6079]

how to make nymphing complicated video

[@chem2850]

At the end of the swing take a few drags of whatever your smoking... let the indicator sink yo yo it, puff puff FISH ON!!!

[@82rocksolid]

Bobber just call it what it is...