OK, all you swingers (particularly those who have hooked more than two or three steelhead while swinging flies):

At what point in the swing do you get most of your takes? Personally, I only have a few fish to speak to, but only one has taken my fly while it was traveling through the swing. Each of the others took at some oddball time, catching me completely off guard.

Most of what I have read says that steelhead usually take a swing presentation right after the line comes under tension and begins the swing (or else on the hang-down at the end of the swing). I have had a couple take on the hang-down. One was while I was stripping my line back in to cast, about 15 feet below where I was standing. Anyway, it seems to me that I hook more steelhead as soon as the fly starts coming toward the surface than at any other point, whether swinging or nymphing. Perhaps I am only encountering aggressive fish?