Allan,

I'm through on this. Believe what you want, but this is what you said earlier:

""The trout have 'learned' about Catskill dries/hackled flies/hair flies/etc, and they simply won't hit them"; "There's a hatch of tricos and they won't hit anything larger than a 26"; and so many more. What BS!"

I THINK it may have been written as a sarcastic comment. Sort of seemed that way..........................
But just above you wrote:
"I said nothing about Catskill dries other than there are many styles and patterns that are called Catskill flies"