I don’t know anything about those McCloud trout. I never even heard the name until I read it on this site. All I know is when we fished it we used crayfish from the creek, peeled tails on 10# test mono if we wanted mid sized ones, full sized live ones on 20# test with a 3/0 hook for the good ones that lived in the root wads. We hadn’t even heard of a fly rod.