Fast water fish

Summer is in full swing here on the Truckee and everyone knows it.  Im not just talking about the seemingly endless brigade of floaters drifting down the river like cherios down a drain, but the fish too. When the temps rise, the fish sink.  On hot days fish sit under fast water, sometimes even below white water rapids.  These fish are tough to get a good drift to because the surface water is moving so much faster then the bottom water, but with enough weight and no line drag it can be done.  Fortunately, even though the fishing can be technical, there is no guessing where the fish are.  When the water is cooler in the early morning, fish slower buckets behind rapids and slower pocket water.  I like to look for dark riffles with a small foam and bubble line in the middle.  A deep drift through a run like that and you are bound to pull out some sort of fish (maybe a whitefish but hey, those are the only native and wild species in the river).  When the day heats up move to faster water.  I like fishing about a foot in to a rapid at the top of a pool.  Warm water holds less oxygen then colder water so trout need to be in highly oxygenated water like the kind directly under a rapid.  Not to mention faster water provides better cover.  There are no secrets about the flies this time of the year, use golden stones, caddis, crayfish, pheasant tails, birds nest, and most importantly make sure they are beaded and/or weighted.  Today I used a sz 4 crawfish with lead eyes and a lead wrapped golden stone as a dropper.  These flies had so much weight that the indicator was barely floating.  I caught all my fish on the stone, as expected, but I keep the crayfish on there for the aggressive brown that might be looking for what he thinks is a crunchy snack.  As far as the dropper, I like to go smaller than the first fly.  If my first fly is a crayfish, then I use a stone second.  If my first fly is a stone, then I use a pheasant tail or caddis second.  I know some people who use their heaviest fly on the bottom, like czech nymphing style, but I loose too many flies that way.  Stone flies can be odd, I love the stones that I tie, yet many of the stones that I see in the stores do not do the real ones justice.  Adult goldens are very large and very golden and you can see them all over the river, yet the nymphs are much darker.  I tie mine brown and tan with golden biots and golden bead.  I use thin skin across the back and for the wing cases and I just use loosely wrapped dubbing for the legs. That seems to work for me.  Anyway, enjoy the awesome weather and hopefully I will see you on the river.  Let me know if you land a toad, Im always on the quest for Hog Johnson even if it means just seeing the pic.