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.

Walked down to Glover's Creek yesterday.  They have a gate up right as you enter Echo Valley park, but the walk in wasn't bad at all.  Stream nearly completely open, with just a few places iced up.   Temps around 30 degrees.  Saw (scared) quite a few trouts.   Went up to the first ford, and then onto the rocks; staying on the left side of the creek (and keeping my sox dry). 

Hooked one rainbow (on a Green Retro), but lost him without getting him to me:  Skunked.

Kept fishing that same hole, 'cause I couldn't go up further without using the ford.  No Joy.
It started snowing, and after a while I gave it up, and walked out. 

The steep hill by the stream was a little hard to go up, since the patches of ice now had snow on them. Had to walk slow, as I had neither my cleats or my wading staff; but it wasn't too bad as long as you went slow.