so me and my buddy were fishing the tully this morning and caught about 10 each, but mostly on cdc caddis and a handful on nymphs. I saw about 10 fish swimming in the water back and forth and sipping bugs of the surface....they would look at the caddis but wouldnt take it. I fooled 1 brown after drifting it a few times but i threw a small griffith nate, saize 22 and they would just look at it....so what could have worked? I am assuming they were eating midges?So could i have thrown a zebra midge if i had any?

Was this slack water (sounds like it might be from the fish swimming back and forth) -in which case I might say they were feeding on last nights spinner fall. Often as the dead spinners drift downstream, many will collect in the side waters. I have often seen fish collect in these areas in the morning for an easy breakfast. By this time the spinners (which are often difficult to see on the surface when they first fall because of their clear wings and dark bodies) are even more difficult to see as they are half submerged and or broken from the currents.
Although, it certainly could hAve been midges, too!

yes slower water so i saw sulphurs poping up all day, could it have been sulphur spinners or what?

It very well could have been spinners. Only way to find out for sure - if you didn't see any on the water - is to try one.
I find that this time of year - which is considered the peak time for hatches - the fish don't bother much with midges, when you have all of these large mayflys hatching.
Unless of course, the stream doesn't have good mayfly hatches

well the sulphurs have been coming off, but cadddis and midges still. So what size soinner and what color?

when the fish commision car pulls in coolers go running to cars with 10 or so 20 plus inch fish......its ridicoulous i wish they would crack down on them idiots.