Hope someone can help. How do you fish the washing line method with a sinking or intermediate line? What sort of retreave should i use? Should the booby just be fished slowly near surface of fished faster deeper down? What flies should i use?
Help me out please
Ray

Washing line?? How and when?

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Thanks Maharg that is just what i wanted
Ray

One thing I would add if I may. Don't always put on a super bouyant booby, sometimes a more neutral bouyancy version will give better results especially when your using a slow glass in the top foot of water.

There are two basic tactics when fishing the "Washing line", or multiple fly leader setups. Either you fish it vertically, ie, to find the depth at which the fish are feeding at. By doing this, you will be fishing accross the water column, or vertically to the water column. Once you have found the depth, you could then choose to fish it horizontally, along the water column, at the depth you hvee found the fish feeding in. You will find the correct depth of the feeding fish, by using different sinking and intermediate lines, by counting them down according to the descent index.
If you have a 1.5 intermediate, it will sink at 1.5 inches per second, so you know that if you count down 30 seconds, your line should be at 45 inches. If you are fishing a DI 5 sinker, you know it sinks at a rate of 5 inches per second, so a count of 30 seconds, means it will be at a depth of 150 inches or 12.5 feet or about 4 meters.
There is also no reason why you cant find the fish by fishing it horizontally. I would do this by counting down every cast, say first cast, count to 5, next cast to 10, and so on and so on, until you have action. the next 5 or so casts, do the same thing, to confirm that the fish are at that level, or if it was just an isolated "patrolling" fish.
Successfull stillwater fishing , is an absolute art, and there can be a lot of science attached to it as well.
Here is a site that might help
http://streamlinedflyfishing.com/tec...n-and-retrieve

Thanks everyone, i understand a lot better now
Ray