Weighted Flies

[geoffvl]

Do you weight your flies when you tie large ones like 2/0 or bigger? They seem to in Alaska but it doesn't seem from my research that they use as heavy sink tips as we do in BC.

[btree]

Sometimes I do, sometimes I dont. It depends on how you like to fish them.

Some people prefer a heavily weighted fly on a longer leader, some people prefer unweighted flies on a tip, some people who really want to get down go with both...

I'm finding with overhead casting, I prefer unweighted flies with a heavy tip and a short leader. I've yet to have much success spey casting large flies with any weight at all, but I've yet to get into skagit system.

[SalaR]

There are tiems when Head weight is enough to get your fly down to "the slot"....what I have found over the past several years since Eumer Tube bodies have become available...there is a much greater ability to build flies as needed. With about 20 different weighted body designs to sky is the limit.From micro tube bodies to the very heavy ...and these bodies are coloured or a finished metal brightness...so,now you can understand the versatility. A small fly can be very heavy...and how many big Steelhead havae been landed on single egg patterns!
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