best advice i got before my dean trip was to fish a floating line exclusively for at least a day or two. rose five landed one the first day and never looked back... and chuckled at all of the people bitchin' about how slow the fishing was.

did fish a sink tip for an hour the one day the river blew out. had no confidence fishing the chocolate milk so decided to fish a big black fly on a floater and got the only grab of the day we heard about.

i'm in the camp of maybe changing the fly once (usually to a smaller dry) and then continuing to fish. i get satisfied steelhead fishing easily and catch enough summer runs this way to get satisfied.

what's funny is i now will tie on a dry if i'm not feeling confident there are fish around. i usually end up surprised.

the best thing about fishing waked dries (besides the grabs) is that you learn how to swing water much quicker because you actually get to see what the currents do to your fly.

man that f'ing trip was fun.