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It just goes to show how important it is to have a selection of flies in a variety of sizes. Trout aren't stupid - and they see better than we realize. If they are feeding on a particular insect, we have to 'match the hatch.' I've had situations where I've had to drop fly sizes - trout would not touch a size 12 Mosquito... dropped to a size 16, and they loved it. "Not going to say how many you caught..." that's either a confession of great success... or great failure! I hope it was the former. Tight lines bud. Pics next time out?
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not a fly fisherman but a Lake Trout fisherman and would say from our 30 years of observations Lakers feed right from the bottom right up the water column in the springtime on whatever is hatching at that time. and I would say closer to the bottom in most cases ......we had one for Shore Lunch on opening day and it's stomach was full of the Midge Hatch that was happening while we where fishing, also had some other insects in it's stomach as well, besides the 3 minnows, good luck and tight lines.
If there are that many rising, and it's that steady. It's a fairly good hatch coming off.
Whatever they are feeding on, yours is but one of how many? So your one artificial size 16, 18 or 20 is in with thousands of them coming off plus those below the surface...proverbial needle.
personally don't really enjoy fishing good hatches, especially still water when they have all day to inspect it. In current they don't have the same time and you get far less refusals. If you got some takes you did well.
I predominantly fish stillwaters for rainbow trout, and to be honest my fly selection is quite small when I go out. Mostly because a lot of my stillwater fishing is right in the middle of summer when the trout are sitting deeper than 20ft or so. My biggest flies of success on the lakes are Black, Brown, and Olive leech immitations or an olive flashback damsel. I know limiting to these some may say is a poor choice, but I tend to have 40 fish days off just these flies. For sizing I prefer #10 the lowest I would go is about a #14. If you haven't checked out Phil Rowley and Brian Chan's books on stillwater trout I would highly recommend it, they give valuable information and ultimately turned my measly 10 fish days into 40 fish and sometimes 70 on a very good day.
The trout that I typically catch are in the 1-3lb range.