I hardly ever use double hook rigs here in the Midwest. Most tandem rigs around here are double flies, or a egg pattern up above, with about a 5 or 6 inch dropper with another egg pattern or a stonefly or wiggler pattern below. Some times it's a deadly combo. In snaggy rivers, it often comes down to how much gear you want to sacrifice to the fish gods. Also, sometimes our runs are so loaded with fish, the double combo foul hooks too many fish. that's the two reasons I don't use them much.

Now, for the better part of education. If we took the damage away to the nates on double hook rigs, and we were in Eutopia, and you had "thriving" populations of these fish, why would you use them? I have seen tons of magazine articles pertaining to fishing the NW for steelies and salmon, and run in to those double rigs a lot. I saw a guy in Alaska with one last year fishing for native steelhead, and the size and profile of his rig just about made me start to dump logs. Educate me guys on why this would be more effective on my Midwest brats if I was willing to sacrifice gear to the fish gods. Hope this changes the tone of this post. Go Fish.