Last spring, we published a short piece titled Nymphing: Get More Hookups, which focused on increasing encounters with fish by knowing when to set the hook while nymphing. By leveraging the tip provided here, the hope is you can even further add to the number of hookups you're producing not by modifying the strategy but simply by changing what you do once your drift is done, or so you thought.

Traditional nymphing focuses on dead drifting. Casting, mending and so on to insure that your fly is floating downstream just as it would if it wasn't tied to your leader. The reason is simple: this is what real nymphs do, so that's what we want our nymph flies to do if we expect them to fool fish.

But nymphs do more than that. They swim. Some nymphs are good swimmers, while others are lousy at it. Some swim to seek shelter after becoming dislodged from rocks, while others may swim to burrow in sand or silt. The most common reason that nymphs swim, however, is to ascend to the surface for emergence.

Having recently returned from chasing permit in Mexico's Ascension Bay, we've been doing a lot of talking about permit. It's sort of hard to resist. In our recent photography feature, Permit: Your New Addiction, we hopefully helped to dispel the myth that only the most masterful of anglers should hope to land a permit. You can do it too. That said, successfully presenting a fly to a permit and hooking that permit is a distinctly different task than doing so to other fishy quarry -- even the other fish that share the flats with permit -- so being prepared will up your chances for success.

Over the course of a week with the insanely permit-focused guides at Ascension Bay's Palometa Club, we received a lot of schooling on how to best present a fly to a permit feeding on the flats. Here are a few of the tips we received.