Zen ,Zen,Zen: Shame on ya tossing those bicolored METAL Flies at unsuspecting salmons.

A shooting head fast sink with some feathered aggrivator patterns, or else (aaaaak) spawn sack flies,will get you just as many salmon with a lot more grace from the fishing Gods.

I should talk, during a bad lull in the chironomid fishing on Nunnally this year I reverted to using the ( Shhhhh, don't tell everyone) RUBBER leach. Made outa half a slice of silicone worm complete w/ gold glitter threaded on a barbless hook.

And it worked too. Sometimes you gotta revert to drastic methods to avoid the dreaded SKUNK!