Euro Nymphing Workshop – by Lynn Rebert

Euro Nymphing is a tight-line nymphing method that uses very thin leaders, weighted flies, and a piece of colored-line sighter to suspend flies off the bottom and to maintain direct contact with the flies at all times. Euro nymphing practiced correctly allows anglers to be able to control the speed and depth of their nymph better than traditional nymphing and to better detect strikes. With euro nymphing methods, fly line is not used and no indicators and weights are added to the leaders.

Euro Nymphing consists of French, Spanish, Polish, and Czech nymphing, and probably 50 other variations. Despite the many versions, the basics of using a high rod tip, with weighted flies and a sighter remain the same throughout all versions.

What changes from one version to the other is the length of the leader, the leader setup, the weight of the flies, the positioning of the angler, and where they target the fish from.