The largest number of fish were taken under the surface but the biggest were taken on top.
Other than the youngster breaking my favorite nymphing rod, dropping a rod into a weed bed (5' of water) and having him run into me which resulted in me dumping 200+ small nymph patterns into the river, it was a decent trip.
With 25+ years up there, I hooked the biggest rainbow I've ever seen in a riff. He jumped, ran up river, jumped, ran down river, crossed the riff and hid by the bank. I though he was done so I closed in with my net. I was wrong. He bolted, jumped into the side of my anchored pontoon, did a 180 and shot down river only to hide by the grassy shoreline again. I walked closer with the net and he shot up river jumping like a flying fish. The #18 nymph and 5x fluro couldn't take the abuse and broke. I know someone will have an issue with my estimate but I almost had him in the net twice and had him jump 12 times right in front of me. I know that the bows can reach sizes above 20" but that is typically seen on the big river and a trophy bow is 20". I am positive this fish was 4 lbs or more and would have measured around 23"-24". I hope I can find him next time up.