LT,

If you were letting your jig float downstream, but there was any drag whatsoever on your float/jig, then you weren't fishing as deep as your leader would indicate.

If he was casting up and reeling down, so long as he wasn't reeling a lot faster than the current, then he was likely fishing to the maximum depth his leader would allow.

Here's the more likely answer, though...

"What’s up with that? Does not seem like a very natural presentation to me but hey he caught the fish and I got skunked. I still have not figured that one out….

Which, of course, is why steelhead fishing is so much fun, and...

"by a guy that from everything I have read did everything wrong "

Which proves that none of us has all the answers, and that you can't fish with a book...or a computer, either, for that matter.

Did you try to do it the way he was doing it?

Fish on...

Todd.