The Fall River is much snowier now than just a couple of days ago. It is a beautiful site and lovely to be there in this season. Plenty of fish around and when I fished there 2 days ago I was really really hoping to see BWO’s floating down the currents and noses poking up to eat them. 
I am glad I brought my nymphing rod too….
Soccer Mom was by far my best fly of the day, but a eggstacy egg tied with a hot orange drop bead and a purple perdigon with a gun metal drop bead were productive for me. 
There were a few fish rising to ???? on the “pond” at the hatchery. I put some midges and a KD Dun over them on 7x and never had a look. Another day perhaps. 
You know I like to tell stories and I was reminded of one this week. 
Back in the good old days of the Bend fly fishing scene there was a guy named Tom Brazier who was a retired (disabled) Sheriff’s Deputy from LA. He was a fabulous angler and fly tyer. Tom as it turns out was way ahead of his time based on how the kids these days are fishing streamers. At that time, Tom tied small black wooly buggers with lead dumb bell eyes and would quietly walk the banks of the Fall River and jig that lead eyed bugger along the undercut banks and in front of fish that might be laying in the main pools. Tom was a big fella so he knew stealth and a soft step was important over the top of those undercuts. Fish that were unseen would dart out quickly and grab the leech with a vengeance! He taught me this so many years ago, and this week when I was fishing the tungsten beaded soccer mom leech, it reminded me of how similar that presentation is to what Tom did about 40 years ago. 
By the way, Tom tied a little emerger called the Peeping Tom. With a different thread color on the body this fly mimicked all kinds of mayfly and midge emergers and I need to tie some and show and tell in a future report. I have no doubt the fish on any of our rivers still want to eat that profile of emerger.