I fished two afternoons, October 25th and October 26th, putting into the river around noon. The first day we floated leisurely from Kelly Ford to the Falls; the second day from the Falls to Blair Bridge. For both days, the air temperature was in the fifties with partly cloudy skies. Fishing was slow until around three o'clock each day.

There were numerous white and light yellowish caddis in the air. I first tried light colored soft hackles like partridge and oranges and partridge and greens, sizes 12 through 16, fished upstream dead drift. There were few takers. I changed to a size 14 grouse and brown with a hare's ear collar, fished it the same manner, and took fish each day.

The fish took the fly quietly, with scarcely a splash, while it was floating dead drift down a run. I took eight trout on the first day, nine or ten the next day; all rainbows except the good brown. The rainbows were beautiful, traces of crimson, full bodied.

For anyone interested, I used a furled 5'9" leader with a 5x tippet. The fishing and floating were excellent; we saw only one other canoeist. There was some moss and fallen leaves in the water that caused some minor difficulties in surface fly-fishing.