What I love about this story, is that it wasn’t how much better of an angler I was than my father.  It’s simply a matter that I applied a superior technique for the water that we were fishing that day.  We proved that by putting him on the same technique and he got right into the fish just like I had.  

How many times have you had on the river where you only catch 3-5 fish for the day and despite your best efforts nymphing with an indicator (traditional nymphing), you just can’t seem to figure it out?  It happens A LOT.  While fly fishing is not just a numbers game, if we’re honest with ourselves, any day on the water is made better by more fish.  Euro nymphing is literally game changing.  That’s why I love it and use it whenever it makes sense.  I love dry fly fishing more than anything, but if there’s no active trout rising or its the wrong time of year for dry fly fishing (which it is nearly 50% of the year), then euro nymphing is the best way to catch fish in the river.

On a personal note, I love being able to understand a river and the fish that are in it.  What I mean by that is, if possible, I like to catch a ton of fish so that by the end of my day, I have a good understanding of what that river holds.  If you only catch 3 fish in a river on a day and they are all under 10 inches, you may be fooled into thinking thats all the river offers.  With euro nymphing, I feel like 9/10 times I can catch enough fish on a day to know, with a high degree of confidence, what that river offers in terms of fish size, species etc.  That to me is really special.  At the heart of me, I’m an explorer and I like to explore something fully before I feel I can move on to the next adventure.  When you only get to fish a river once (and I’ve never since been back to the Ruby), it gives me a great sense of satisfaction that I was able to fully explore that section of the river.  Without euro nymphing, I would have left feeling like I had missed something.  That level of satisfaction and enjoyment comes from having several techniques ready to go on any given day to catch fish.  If I’m being honest, I think euro nymphing should be the primary technique you use on the river if you also share the goal of getting the most out of each day on the water.

This is why we made our euro nymphing course.  We’re passionate about teaching you how to become a better angler because we’ve experienced our own success through this technique and seen our enjoyment and satisfaction on the river increase dramatically.  If you’re that angler, that wants to keep improving, there’s no better place to start than learning euro nymphing.  I’d encourage you to take our course and take classes and read books.  There’s a wealth of information available and while I know that our course will really help accelerate your learning, we encourage you to learn all you can from as many sources as possible.  Then you too, can outfish your Dad (or other fishing friend) and make a memory that will last forever.