fisherman (Fred Steynberg immediately
comes to mind) spends hours on moving
water and has perfected his short game.
Eliminating drag with an emerger or dry,
getting a nymph down to the depth you
want, or accurately throwing a streamer
right against the bank and fishing it
through the undercut are what makes
this kind of fishing appealing.
My advice to any newcomer to rivers
is to spend the money on a guide in the
area and focus on what he is teaching you
and showing you to catch fish. For ex-
ample, throughout my years of guiding
on the Vaal River, it was all about getting
the clients into fish and Czech nymphing
worked a treat and it was easy, but as we
progressed we started to give more to the
client from an instruction point of view.
After a few fish with the Czech style of
fishing, we would then move them on
to indicator nymphing at short and long
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