Why can't I hook fish on my streamer fly? (49 of 51)

Tom: We're on the Rio Blanco at Magic Waters River of Dreams and it's a great streamer river. You're moving fish all the time on streamers. I had the most frustrating day. I counted at least 23 missed strikes in a row on streamers. The fish would come at the [00:00:30.059] fly. Sometimes they'd take it, sometimes they wouldn't. I'd feel a bump. I'd strip strike like I should and nothing. Did land a few fish yesterday, including a good one, but there were just time after time after time we changed flies, we changed hook styles, we changed our retrieve speed, we changed our angle. And you know, there are just some days that fish do not chomp on your streamer. They bump them, they hit them so quickly that [00:01:00.299] there's never time to strip strike. And granted, there were a few times when I didn't strike properly. I had my rod in the wrong angle or I trout sat and raised the rod instead of strip striking.
But you've got to know that if you streamer fish, you're going to have those days when the fish are just not eating the fly. They're not committing. They're not hungry, whatever. They're trying to chase the fly out of their zone. And it's funny because at [00:01:30.099] the end of the day, Mark Melnick was in another boat, and Mark had the exact same experience, the exact same frustrations that I had. So don't beat yourself up if you're fishing streamers and you miss a lot of fish because some days you're going to miss them. Some days you're going to connect on almost every cast and we're hoping that today, the water rose a little bit, it's a little bit dirtier, maybe things will change. But it wasn't our fault, it [00:02:00.140] was the fish's fault. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Yeah, big rainbows too.
Man: That's as big as they get.
Tom: That's as big as they get? They don't get much bigger in here? Oh, what a beautiful fish. Yeah, a pretty, pretty fish.
Man: Just coming out of spawning time.
Tom: Yeah. [00:02:30.135]