I draw distinctions between some of the presentations, although similar, from what I have experienced are considerations in the type of fly best suited and the type of water I'm fishing. I think we all take common presentations and apply to them specific situations and employ specific types of flies using those presentations. That is what I am curious about. We may all have our own on the water considerations for using the Escalator presentation or a variation of it. I think we could get some good discussion on what each of us may look for and our approach with each technique. The topic in this post maybe too much now that I think about it. Maybe it would be best to gather comments on specific presentations individually under their own topics.
Thanks John for taking the time to share your thoughts on those publications.
I use the Escalator most often for fishing along deeper banks where I let the fly sink and then feed line out as the fly drifts parallel to the bank, after the end of a reasonable reach, I stop the rod and let the fly ascend and swing out. I don't use it on sighted fish like I would with the Leisenring lift. It also incorporates mending at the beginning and stripping line off the reel which I don't do with the L. Lift. I most often choose a fly that is a little more robust than a spider, is a little heavier to get that sink going. This is where I will often use a wingless wet that could resemble a drowned terrestrial as well. Depending on the fly choice it is either about the slow sinker drift parallel to the bank or the gradual rise at the end of drift.
Like the Induced Take, I believe the Leisenring Lift and Hidy's Subsurface Swing were also predominantly sighted fish techniques.
Ray - Dry fly presentations certainly work well at times, however they are dry fly presentations.
I like the idea of the Animated Drift that you find in Tenkara presentations. So what type of water specifically do you look for that would push you to chose that technique at the time and are there specific types of flies that you use (only reversed spiders, spiders, flymphs, general wingless wets, etc). I know a person could use that technique with any of those but what would you chose most often and why? That's what I am trying to gather here.
Mike - I think that is how a lot of us came across them. Trial and error. That is the cool thing about wingless wets, their versatility for so many conditions and presentations.
It's okay to laugh. I have no shame... 
), but I would add dead drift (dry fly style) and active retrieve/animated drift (Tenkara style pulsing of the fly in the surface film) to the list.
