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The situation: Today, my brother and his son hooked two steelhead on the Bogasheil River downstream from the hatchery. In addition, they saw one king salmon. After losing a chromer, my brother swung an orange bomber, only because he didn't know any better, didn't know that spring steelhead on the Olympic Peninsula don't rise to flies, and then a fish pulled the fly under. He struck and didn't hook up, but says the fish felt big. He's going to call me for advice later this evening. He wants me to tell him if it was a one in a million chance that he rose a steelhead to the surface, or maybe even if it was a king and not a steelhead. He wants to know if he should keep swinging the dry. What should I tell him, based on your experience with spring fish rising or not rising to dry flies? Thanks. Keith