How to tie 2 Flies On Line
Educated Angler - The Double Nymph Rig
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hey guys this is Patrick sessoms with D
south Outfitters a fly shopping guide
service of been our elk and Boone North
Carolina we'd like to welcome you all to
new series we're doing called the
educated angler our goal here is to kind
of shine a little light on what we do as
guides every day how we set our rigs up
kind of to walk people through how to
rig rods just general information about
fly-fishing that's maybe not readily
available to some folks we want to make
this really simplified so it's easy to
understand and just something that folks
that whether you're just getting into
the sport and you're trying to figure
out how do I rig a nymph rig or if
you're an expert you can pick up on a
few tidbits that might help your fishing
game a little bit if you will and we
decided that today we would start out
with just a generic nymph rig
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so for a nymph rig or double nymph rig
if you will this rod has got a leader on
it already that I'm going to go ahead
and take off I'm gonna walk you guys
through how to rig this from start to
finish the lawn here has a loop to loop
connector on it and so I'm going to
start this rig with just a simple Rio 9
foot 5 X power flex leader going pulling
out of the package here just a word of
caution if you've ever messed with
taking leaders out before you're going
to realize they can get tangled really
easily and you can lose a $5 liter at
the drop of a hat so really take your
time on winding this always like to
start by winding the butt end or the
thick into my leader first and after a
while you get kind of the wraps done and
it'll fall out on its own so to put this
leader on I'm gonna take my loop
connector on my leader end and put it
through the loop on my fly line I'll
feed it through and then I double back
over and feed the remainder of my leader
through to tighten up my loop to loop
connector now a lot of times people will
take a piece of leather and try to kind
of torque down on their leader to
straighten the kink out of their leader
I like to just give it a nice tug and
typically we're just a simple tug a lot
of that memory will come out of your
leader if you need to you can gently
pull through your hands but sometimes
friction will actually cause more of a
kind of kink to getting your lawn so I'm
just gonna take a second straight my
leader out with my hand there now this
is a like I said a 9 foot 5 X tapered
leader there's a little bit of memory
left in this I'm not going to worry
about it too much so I'm not fishing
this currently but um you're going to
notice the butt end is a little thicker
whereas the tapered end is very thin it
tapers down to 5x the reason that this
is advantageous is that thick but it's
going to help roll out your flies for
you whereas the thin in the taper down
is soup
thin and the fish theoretically will
have a harder time seeing that so one
thing I like to do right out of the gate
is I'm going to attach a little bit of
Tippett to the end of my leader here and
there's all kinds of tippet when I'm
typically nothing I'm going to use
fluorocarbon however today I decided to
just use a little power flex which is a
nylon tippet the advantage of the
fluorocarbon over the nylon is the
fluorocarbon will sink for you so if
you're predominantly fishing subsurface
or nymph fishing you will want to use
fluorocarbon and it's also a little less
invisible to trout as well but for all
purpose for what we're doing today we're
just going to go ahead and use some
power flex nylon tippet so I've got my
leader here and I'm gonna start off just
by pulling out maybe we'll say probably
about 12 to 18 inches of tippet so I've
pulled roughly we'll say 18 inches of
tip it off here I take my built-in
scissors and forceps here and clip my
piece of tip it off the knot I used to
attach my tippet to my leader when I
don't have any flies on it's just a
simple double surgeon's knot one
important note is to always moisten your
knot before you cinch it down
this helps to seat the knot and prevents
break offs from here I'll trim my tag
ends
and so now I've got an on foot 5x leader
with about 12 to 18 inches of tip it on
the end the advantage in doing this guys
is say you're changing your flies a lot
you can clip the tip it off it protects
your leader whenever you get to the
double surgeon's knot you tied you can
tie another double surgeon's knot and
put another piece of tip it on therefore
you don't go through your leader quite
as fast with this double excuse me
double nymph ring we're going to start
off by putting kind of just a generic
heavy nymph up top in this case I'm
using this tungsten beaded copper John
jig fly and I use an improved clinch
knot to tie my first fly on here so I'm
currently tying an improved clinch knot
to tie on my first fly once again we're
going to moisten the knot here now I'll
take another piece of tippet I'm gonna
say probably another 12 to 18 inches a
5x tip it here and there's different
ways you can rig you can rig off the eye
of the fly which would basically mean
that we're going to take our dropper tip
it and come off the eye here or we could
also come off the bend of the hook or
the fly in this instance I'm gonna start
by going off the eye of the hook this
flies a pretty large fly and on jigs I
prefer going off the eye instead of off
the bend especially when they're
barbless and I'm just going to tie go
through the eye with my little 18 inches
of tippet and tie another improved
clinch knot here guys moisten cinch and
we'll trim
so now I have leader
Tippett top fly and then tip it below my
top fly as well I'm going to take a
second and we're going to tie a second
dropper on or a second fly on below my
top fly and to do this once again
we're just going to use and improve
clinch knot very simple moisten cinch
and trim so now my rig looks a bit like
this we've got leader tip it top fly
Tippett bottom fly spaced out we'll say
12 inches apart now for nymph fishing
unless you're european-style dipping or
tight line then thing swinging wet flies
if you're doing any sort of nymph
fishing where you will not feel strikes
which is the majority of kind of the
common name thing people will do also
refer to a suspension in thing we're
going to use a strike indicator for
folks that are unfamiliar with the fly
fishing industry or kind of realm of fly
fishing a strike indicator is a
glorified bobber ultimately the goal and
a strike indicator is to see a strike on
your fly's under the water there's a
gamut of different types of indicators
you can use ranging from New Zealand
wool which we really like because it's
super sensitive shows a lot of delicate
takes down to thingamabob errs or an
airflow air lock indicator
I'll show you a thing I'm about here
looks kind of like this just a small
bobber all the way to you know just kind
of like little pieces of foam you could
put on your line today we're going to
use a thingamabob er and I'll show you
guys how to do this here in a second but
when I'm NIM fishing I'm gonna kind of
look at the water column to try to
determine what depth I think the fish
are at so say the fish are suspended and
we'll say they're two feet below the
surface I want to try to have my flies
drop more or less right in front of the
so I'm gonna wait my flies accordingly I
may or may not use split shot which is
just a small weight I'll put on my
leader to get my flies down or I may be
using four in this instance a super
heavy tungsten jig style fly that'll act
as a split shot either way I'm just
looking into the water trying to
determine where my fish are taking an
educated guess at where these fish are
hanging and trying to set my indicator
to where the depth of my indicator to
fly is the same as where I think that
fish are laying in the water column for
this little stretch of water I'm
probably going to make our flies roughly
we'll say three feet deep so to go ahead
and take my thingamabob er and attach to
my leader it's just about a little over
three feet to give us a little wiggle
room so to once again kind of walk us
through our setup here we have a 9 foot
5 X tapered leader
I've put some tippet on it now I've
attached a thingamabob or strike
indicator and we have now two nymphs
below our strike indicator just a note
if you guys remember we put a little bit
of tippet here off the end of our or
leader between our first fly and our
leader one nice thing if you're fishing
split shot is you can put your split
shot above this knot it'll make sure
that your split shot doesn't slip down
and sit on top of your fly let me
illustrate this for you so here's a
piece of split shot here's my knot and
I'm just going to simply put my shot
above my knot here give it a nice firm
squeeze with my forceps and now I've
added a piece of split shot above my top
fly but they're not the join spot
Tippett to my leader to prevent my split
shot from slipping down and so here's
our generic double nymph rig once again
with a piece of added split shot we have
a strike indicator thingamabob
about three feet of lawn here or liter
split shot we'll say a little over a
foot of tippet to our first fly and then
about another foot of tippet to our
second fly so there's your basic
suspension style double nymph rig
hopefully this helps guys
now one thing I'd like to add is there's
a million ways to rig these flies you
know if some folks will tie off the bend
of a hook some folks will tie off the
eye of a hook
some people will tie droppers off of
their leader on tag ins the reason we're
highlighting this method is we found
this to be the most simple
straightforward way to do this and if
you're just getting into the sport it's
really easy to Canaveral and effectively
fish a double nymph rig but I'm sure
people will comment you know you can do
this you can do that and you're
absolutely right there's a million
different ways I'm sure in future videos
we'll add a few more methods to doing
this however for a really basic simple
dropper rig this will work for you
hopefully this helps guys and until next
time
tight lines we'll see you next week at
the educated angler
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