Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most from your time on the water.

Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing

enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.

Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This week, let's talk about nymphs, which reminds you of a story back in the early 1970s.

Ernest Schweibert came out with his monumental book on nymph flies and nymph fishing. And when the book first came out they sold thousands of

copies right off the bed and the books just flew off the shelves of the

wholesalers. A couple weeks later, most of them came back because the

owners of the adult bookstores were a little bit disappointed when they opened the book

and found it to be full of drawings of bugs and not something else.

So anyway, that's my story about nymphs.

But nymph fishing is fishing an imitation of a larval insect, cat-fly, may fly, stone fly, or an adult crustation

like a scut or a sow-wug little crustaceans that live in trout streams.

And I think the most important thing in nymph fishing is that your fly drifts at exactly

the same speed as the current, what's called a dead drift.

There is one way of fishing nymphs, which we call the wet fly swing,

which is really the easiest way of fishing them.

You put on a fly, you throw it straight across the river, and you let it swing in the current.

You might make a little upstream mend by flipping the tip of your rod upstream to slow down the

swing a little bit.

And this sometimes works.

It works, perhaps the fish think it's a real tiny bait fish swimming across the stream.

Sometimes emerging insects will swim across the stream.

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