Salmo G. - how do you drink beer while you row? Long straw? Thanks for the info guys. For chironomids, what part of the water column would I be targeting? All of it? Also I have never understood this strike indicator business. is it on the leader? could I put it on the floating part of a sink tip?

Preston - I think it might be how often you hear that a trout feeds subsurface 90% of the time or whatever that old mantra is. .. for me, I started out tying my own flies, so my wet ones worked and my dries did not. Not to mention being a semi-crappy caster. I will give it a shot though, I do love seeing fish take flies off the top ...

Thanks for the responses,
matt