Mark Tinsky wrote in message news:mt- (snip)
This became an entirely different clave. The group decided early
on we were only going to fish for rising fish, imitate the hatch,
and not wade into the water ; taking the classical English
approach. Some of the less radical members of the clave expressed
doubts as to how effective these methods would be while fishing
rather large rivers for steel head that rarely come to the
surface and hardly ate flies. Another limiting factor was that
there is no hatch in the Rockies during the fall making our fishing
all the more challeging ! Fortunately there were some October
caddis fluttering about as the only other hatch were midges about
size 26-28 . Most of us opted to use the October Caddis, tho the
more radical members claimed that there s no better fishing than
midging steelhead on lite tippet. (more snip)

Looks as though, all in all, a very blood-thirsty bunch. Why didn't
you just use dynamite? Should have added the proviso that 'any fish
cast to, must be swiming upstream tail first.