middle dropper flies - a nightmare??

[Wildfisher]

Highlander, I went fishing once or twice  in the mid 1960???s with one of my dad???s pals father. I did not  fish, I just stood beside him and watched in awe. Old Geordie used a split cane rod  and 4 or more flies. He fished upstream wets most of the time. He gave me a load of flies, some were eye-less and fixed to gut cats. Real gut casts. Watching this man fish was a privilege. He took more wild trout in an hour off that burn than I caught  in a week. I wonder how many could match that technique now?  I wonder if the old traditional upstream wet style is an art that is being lost in today???s  world of unrealistic  big bags of massive fish?  I hope it???s not.