All that sounds just the same as using a fly called the sneakypete, which has a spinner on the front of a wooly bugger

I guess I'm cheating

I guess that is why some people are fishing and some are catching.

i guess if you are visually impaired a strike indicator is ok on a fly rod.i have never used one fly fishing i would thank they would make the cast a little awkard.
i am a line watcher i have never felt the need for a cork of any kind fly fishing,i thank if you learn to watch your line you will not need one .
anyway i do not like the idea of anything between me and the fly,just my opinion.


ps- i have never seen a sneakypete with a spinner.






gators eat fish

Mostly, it's the trout guys who use these. I've only used them when trout fishing, never for gills. Like you, I'm a line watcher.

It's not so much the indicator that makes for awkward casting. Rather, it's the split shot on the line that goes with the indicator.

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Thanks Shooter, I appreciate the support.
And just for the sake of sneakiness, this sneakypete keeps his spinners (And his Dogs) on his casting rods - which I find work much better than fly rods in some instances.
Like those two!
Besides, if I would have had to confine my magazine articles to fly-fishing topics, I'd have had to sell my fly rods long ago to pay the bills!
Anyway, "Sneakypete" was the name of my last six boats, the first of which generated the nickname for me down in Buras, La. where I "snuck" a lot of redfish with flies in the marsh before the marsh washed away.
And that's the way it was, once upon a time, uh, in "Sneakyland".
(See, no fly-spinners at all.)
Pete

Sneaky Pete: that's cool, no offense meant, and anyways, I had the spinner fly confused with the Gaine's Sneaky Pete. I made the original post in reference to, as my original post says, trout in moving water, not bluegill or redfish. Try nymphing for trout in fast-moving water, and you will most likely appreciate the strike indicator. And in speaking of the topic, how is the use of a strike indicator any different, really, than using a float for regular fishing? It's more than acceptable to use these methods of cheating, as you refer to them, when using non-fly fishing tackle. So is it still cheating to fish a large dry fly above nymph? It's just logical to do it that way: you have two flies in use, and if you're watching the dry fly anyway, as one should when fishing a dry fly, you will notice the dry twitch when a fish hits the dropper. Is it cheating then?

Shooter: if you cast well, an indicator will not hinder you. When you are using a leader of at least nine feet, in moving water, chances are very good that an extremely light trout-bite (freshwater trout) will not be transmitted through that amount of leader to your line. And if you are nymph-fishing correctly, you are mending line, which further hinders the likelihood of detecting a strike in your line. I would suggest you give the strike indicator a chance, but seeing as how there are no fast-moving trout rivers in Bayou Chicot, Louisiana, you could probably then rely in your line to indicate a strike.

Interesting. I use an indicator occasionally when the fish are holding off a break or something. I hate dipping nymphs, for trout or for panfish, prefer dries or stripping streamers, but if it means some fish in the cooler I'll run a shellback or similar nymph under an indicator. Yarn I don't like, pretty wind resistant, I use the little stick-on foam jobbies if I go that way.

OKSTATEjiggy we have a few streams that get fast after a quick rain,or as in chicot lake ,chicot bayou runs through the lake.
when the spillway is running the bayou gets real fast,and mending line is the norm,i fish DT F ,well treated to float high,and have no problem seeing the lightest bumps.
i just do not like a float on my line,i guess i am just old school,the old timers that i fished with did not use them.my dad had one fishing buddy mr Brian Norwood that did not use body deodorant,"uncle dub did not use the stuff why should i". i guess that kind'a sums it up for me ,you could call me a dinosaur,i am like mr brian . they did not use them so the thought never crossed my mind to use a strike indicator of any kind fly fishing.
but i will not hold it against you or anyone else that uses strike indicators i am a firm believer in what ever trips your trigger,if it catches fish for you than use it.


gators stink

I have never used an indicator. I have one type of line for all 3 rods and that is what I fish with. Never had a need up here but there are not a lot of trout in the rivers either. I think if I ever did I would use a dry nymph setup with a parachute for the dry. Same concept and both can hook a fish.

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