Fished Hickory (again).  talked to the farm owner; he's having problems getting the government (epa, army corps, etc) to approve his riprap request.   Hoping he gets it; the stream needs it after the huge flood of several years ago.

was 40 degrees out, which felt nice, but filled the creek with ice cold runoff.  Only caught one brown trout in an hour.  Had multiple strikes, but they were so slow and weak that I missed them all but that one.   Saw several trouts rising pretty regularly on what appeared to be mayflies (or caddis?) ...  big enough to see them anyway, so I doubt that they were midges.   Couldn't get trouts interested in  my dries though.  every strike I had was on a green retro.