The added ability to make a very gentle presentation is very important in fly fishing, as the fish are often in ultra clear water where they are easily spooked and highly skeptical of any lure offered to them
Some of Bills friends are more comfortable fishing soft plastics around wood and are also successful with that method
This notch varied from 1/8 inch across to slightly larger and from shallow to as deep as the width
- A Guide to Fishing Old Tamriel by "Old Slaughter Fish" Rivers will be any kind of moving waters, usually starting at a waterfall and ending in either a lake or the ocean
I cast weights between 3 and 4 oz weights
Since indicator fishing is an "idle" method of fly fishing, it is best deployed when you know where the fish are: you see fish in the water or signs of fish on the surface (i.e., rings or swirling water forming on the surface), or you "read the water" and determined that fish might be in an exact location under the water (I won't cover "reading the water" since it's a longer topic, but it's something discussed in my upcoming book The Guide to Urban Fly Fishing )