Little kern golden wrote:
Todays successful flies were a size 14 gray birds nest with a white bead and a size 14 zug bug with a copper bead fish 13’ under the bobber.
Now that’s one good way to get the true utility out of a flyrod in flat water. Nicely done!
There’s an unusual, almost decadent feeling associated with deep indy fishing and suspension of small flies. One can even plumb bob the fly motionless directly under an indy and get bit just as readily as a live minnow, beemoth, or crawler much of the time. Found the fish and nailed the presentation up there, entirely possible that foraging was not necessarily their primary behavior or activity at the moment, either. It’s the rightsizing (or bitesizing?), putting it in front of them, and letting pure temptation do the rest of the work.
You seem to fish this technique well, ever use repeat climb & fall retrieves with the bugs? Sometimes when the dead hang doesn’t provoke, it can be the “emerger arc” the lighter flies take on short strips or steady pull that gets ‘em. I find tapered leaders can actually help get this trajectory in some ways when the leader butt sections ride upward better on the pull.
Great many options to play with on stillwater with indy techniques, I fish deeper pits and and lakes so I’m rather intrigued by what variations folks come up with.