I've been away from Fall River for about a month and much has changed.  The water is higher and the weeds have grown in quite a bit.  The river looks like it normally does, whereas in June and July it was low and not very weedy.  There are fish everywhere, lots of them.  The big fish are also spread out and present in large numbers.  Yesterday we fished over some very difficult fish and got our buts kicked, only landing smaller rainbows.  Today we found a run that held only big fish and they were much easier to fool.  Lloyd from Livermore landed about ten fish before lunch time, all 12-18".

 

In the morning there is a mixed spinner fall of callibaetis, PMD, and trico spinners.  The PMD and Callibaeties duns start to come off around 11am.  Each fish seems to be keying on a different bug, so the dry fly fishing was very challenging.  We did much better with small mayfly nymphs under indicators.

 

I took some great shots of the mayflies today from below the surface - take a look!