LOL. I've seen it 2nd hand too many times to question it so I'm a firm believe in Coley's Bead Bible.

Salmo, you are correct that having fish in front of a fisherman is usually the limiting factor. For us, it happened to be one of those "you shouda been here yesterday" days. Fortunately, it was "yesterday". We were a little good and a lot lucky. You are are also correct that it wasn't "ordinary steelheading". At least not for me. I don't know if Justin was at the same place we were but, if so, I'm pretty sure he could have outfished our gear with his nymphs. He is one fishy dude.