Sink Tip Lines

[HNeal]

Kent gave me an excellent tip on detecting strikes when fishing with a sink tip line. Does anybody else have other tips concerning fishing with a sink tip line?

[The Ole Man]

HNeal
If you noticed in sageboys original post about sinking lines, he said "it got the streamer down real quick". Then you asked about strike indicators. Most of the time a trout hits a streamer differently than a nymph. Streamers are minnow imitations and trout know a minnow can get away from them. Nymphs are more vulnerable and not as likely to escape. When they hit a minnow or it's fly imitation, the strike is much more violent. This is intended to stun the baitfish so if he does slip out of the mouth, the trout can turn and pick him back up. This is also why ,if you get a strike on a streamer and don't hook up you should leave the fly right where it is. If the trout didn't feel the hook, he may hit it again. I've had them hit a streamer as many as three separate times in succession. Commonly, a trout will just suck in a nymph and swim off with him or just sit right where he is-no large bang at all. So, if you are fishing streamers on sinking line you should just stay in close contact with the streamer-high sticking ,no slack line. You're not making a drift. You're swimming a minnow with the current-making him dart,and run like a real minnow in dangerous territory would. When the fish hits you'll know it without needing an indicator to tell you.