We arrived early and found the water to be considerably higher than in the past. We started about half way up and began working our way upstream. We nymphed the good looking pools and faster water for a while, but didn't even get a bump from fish. It wasn't until we were almost up to the next lot that I finally hooked into a nice rainbow. He exploded on the surface when I set the hook and broke me off before I knew what happened. We continued working upriver until I found a pod of really nice cutbows. We sight fished for a while, but the fish were picky and we ended up spooking them off after a couple of casts. This is definitely a river that you have to work upriver on. If the fish see you at all, they are gone. I found a couple of nicer browns holding up further in deeper water by the dam, but was also unable to get them to take a fly. Finally later in the morning the tricos started coming off. They were in swarms up by the dam and were so thick you would breathe them in. The fish seemed to be zeroed in on the spent-wing or drowned spinners towards the end of the hatch. We each hooked a couple of fish and missed a lot, only managing to bring in a couple of small rainbows. Matthew did spot one real nice cutthroat, but again could not get it to take his flies. The water was up, over 200 cfs, and the trout were all mostly within the first mile below the dam.