Nymphing a pocket water pool with a single fly.

[@garyrafferty7625]

Good video my friend. Looks like you found a honey-hole! Thanks for sharing.

[@PhilWilkins-lm2jv]

Another outstanding video Devin. Fantastic to watch you walk us through your approach so thoroughly and reinforce the strategies you have introduced previously. Amazing how many fish you took from this single, small pool. Big messages are ”stay low, take your time fish all the water with precision”. Great to be able to actually see the behaviour of your sighted on this one btw.

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

Glad you enjoyed it and you are right about those take-home messages. Getting the sighter to show up for the camera is a lot more challenging than most people would think. The lighting, elevation, and water surface color have to be nearly perfect and it's simply not achievable in a lot of instances with a micro leader. I have another video in the works specifically about sighter takes though that I'll be editing down the line.

[@garycook337]

Devin, dynamite video, as per usual. Thanks very much and please keep 'em coming!

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

Thanks! We will. I've already filmed a couple more that will be coming out over the next month or two.

[@wvlongshooter3912]

I find on highly pressured water that a single fly is very beneficial. One fly benefit is you can fish all water types depth wise. I always enjoy your content , thanks!!!

[@simonucaconmosca]

I live in Spain, you have a very helpful and plentiful store for us fly fishing adicts and a good corner for specialty items for competition anglers. Tight lines!

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

Gracias!

[@johnjones850]

2 things I’ll point out: you kept a low profile, and you casted (mostly) upstream. I have a bad habit of standing too much and fishing at 45 degrees to 90 degrees. Both will get you beat on the water. Outstanding video!

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

@@johnjones850 agreed and thanks!

[@Leavenotraceexpeditions]

We at BC Canada can only fish single barbless fly. Appreciate your time to teach us …

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

@@Leavenotraceexpeditions thanks!

[@rcvflyfisher]

Beautiful spot, Devin! It's remarkable how many fish you can pull out without them getting spooked by all the jumping and splashing! So nice of you to share the knowledge and to let us share the fun!

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

Thanks. In my experience, fish are often less spooked by the fighting of other fish than we often think they are. It's our presence that ends up spooking them, so I try to be as careful about my positioning as possible.

[@pythomp8390]

Really enjoy these videos!

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

Thanks! Happy fishing.

[@rjf1877]

Thanks for the video Devin, I was wondering why you use 5' of indicator mono for your leader set up. Thanks very much

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

Please check the diagram again. I use 15 feet of sighter as my full micro leader and then add tippet to it. I've talked about this in other videos but having one continuous section for my leader is simple and much stronger than if it is broken up with extra leader knots in relatively small material.

[@The-fly-fisher]

Nice and interesting video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge, very usefull. It's amazing however how many fish you guys got in those holes! Won't match those numbers here in Slovakia, but certainly will start using your single fly technique.

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

Happy fishing

[@simonucaconmosca]

Thanks for your time!

[@robertcobb1465]

Great video as always. I really like that you show the leader formula with the video. Also that you name the flies that you use. It helps me to establish my own set of confidence flies. A question: when tying the light bright, does it matter if you use a slotted bead vs the inverting bead? Is it a matter of having more clearance for the hook point? Thanks.

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

The reason I used the inverting bead is that it is around 10-15% heavier than the similar slotted bead size would be. If you look through the product descriptions of both bead types in our shop, you'll see the listed weights for each size. By using both types of beads in my fly boxes, I am able to get smaller jumps in weight when I want to go heavier or lighter. If I only used slotted beads or inverting beads, then the weight jump, and corresponding sink rate change, from one size to the next can be bigger than I want.

[@robertcobb1465]

Thanks.

[@grimtidings7325]

Great video !!!

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

@@grimtidings7325 thank you!

[@GABABQ2756]

Thanks

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

Thanks for watching

[@JavierGonzalezGarcia-po7nc]

Excellent. Thank you very much.

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

Thank you!

[@paulbehrens8995]

Hi Devin, thanks for all the great videos and books. I’m a very big fan and my catch rate today without you and Lance. I use to fish only two flies but after trial and error (ie many lost flies) I now use a single fly in conditions you have just described. One question, I recently heard that the distance between the dropper and point fly of about 24” is set by competition rules, is this true? Is there any value to reducing that distance to say 12” to 15” ? It would reduce the amount of tangling and the problem of the flies being in two different currents. Would greatly appreciate your thoughts on this.

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

Flies do have to be 50 cm apart, when hanging vertically, in the competition rules. Fishing 2 flies closer together could mitigate some of the issues I talked about in this video and the previous video. However, when I've experimented with this, I still find that casting is less accurate even when they are closer together. And at some point, I think it can be a potential source of spooking fish for them to see flies very close together. It's definitely something that each angler should be willing to experiment with on their own to see if something works better for them.

[@dalesheehan9404]

Super productive. Thanks for the video. If you weren’t kneeling and stood a couple feet back do you think that spot would have produced just as well?

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

Hard to say. I think I would have had a bit of a challenge to maintain similar leader angles without kneeling and getting that close. And I'm not sure I could have continued to avoid spooking fish otherwise but there may have been some holes in the boulders I could have stood in to help stay a bit lower. An 11' rod would have helped as well since I was fishing a 10' 6" rod.

[@dalesheehan9404]

It’s just when I kneel I don’t get up as easily asI used to😎

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

@@dalesheehan9404 It's certainly understandable and obviously something you have to evaluate for your individual fishing situations.

[@alexargyros7186]

Great video, Devin. Very helpful. Could I as you a few nuts and bolts questions. 1. What brand of sighter were you using. 2. What brand/model rod? 3. Were you using the semi-permanent Sakura paint marker? Thanks.

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

Glad you liked it. I used Cortland Tricolor 5x since it shows up best for the camera. I used the Soldarini Hydropsyche Tournament 10' 6" 2/3 weight rod. I was using the Sakura Solid Pain Marker we sell in the shop. Not the Sakura Pen Touch we also sell.

[@joehasenauer1288]

Would this same technique, shallow to deep, near to far apply to larger water?

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

Of course. It's the mantra I use for all water. I talk about it quite a bit in my book Tactical Fly Fishing.

[@dryflymatty7021]

Hey Devin! what lite brite is that if you don't mind me asking? could I get a pattern for it? looks slick af

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

Here is a link to the tutorial. tacticalflyfisher.com/blogs/news/bloglite-brite-perdigon-fly-tying-tutorial?_pos=4&_sid=bd379030f&_ss=r I use black Hareline Krystal flash instead of the pink in the video and I use fl orange veevus 16/0 thread for the hotspot. Or you can search gasolina in our search bar on the site and find a lot of similar shades of krystal flash or tinsels that work really well.

[@dryflymatty7021]

Thanks it didnt look like just black crystal looked like some kind of gasolina tinsel. Did you mean you ribbed it with black crystal flash? ​@tacticalflyfisher3817

[@glencamblin]

“Nicely done “ …. Maybe a vid showing how u run 2 flies and then one to compare how u see the difference. U gotta push your shop a little harder so these guys can support as well as learn from you.

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

I already filmed a video fishing two flies and then transitioning to one. It's the follow up to this video. It may take me a bit of time to get together though given everything else going in the shop at the moment getting preseason orders in and prepping for Christmas. And maybe I don't advertise the shop enough in our videos, but I also get turned off by videos that try to sell a little too hard. I suppose maybe I'm erring more on the side of caution than I need to sometimes though.

[@fredmargolin1909]

When Euro nymphing, I always start with 1 fly to get a sense of water depth and speed. If the stream is not too turbulent, then I'll add a second fly.

[@corybarnett652]

this is unreal, how are there 20 fish in this one hole? and none of them are disturbed by the thrashing every 30 seconds...unfair

[@Imabadfisherman]

They're stupid and unpressured. It's pretty normal on unpressured rivers

[@jeepjustin2002]

Why box is that on your chest

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

The fulling mill chest patch. You can find it at this link tacticalflyfisher.com/products/fulling-mill-fly-patch?_pos=1&_sid=16cecf342&_ss=r

[@KI-dc9ok]

It's like a clown car. Endless supply of fish in one hole

[@jonhart-dj7fn]

one single fly is all one needs if the fish are there

[@tacticalflyfisher3817]

@@jonhart-dj7fn if that’s what works for you that’s great.