From the few conversations I had with Harry up there I suspect that if he got a rise without a hookup he'd take a few more casts at it and then move on...

I have only caught a few...three...on dry flies, all on skated flies. The first was on the Kalama up in the holy waters way back in the 80s and after I whiffed on it two casts in a row another far more experience angler there suggested that I don't set the hook...and the fish rose on the third cast easy as pie and was pulling out line before I ever even lifted the rod.

The other two grabbed it and were on before I could even react fast enough to screw it up, but I definitely cut my teeth on troots on dries and figured out long ago that if your choice is to set the hook too early or not set it at all...well, not setting it at all results in a lot more hookups.

Fish on...

Todd