Headed to thomas eddy for the first time. got to the river about 11:00 and the parking lot was packed. Spent the next 5 hours without a single bite. Worked the river from the eddy to about 3/4 mile downstream. Used sandshrimp, pink buzzbombs, jigs, spoons. Not one bite. I did see people catch fish, and they were surfacing everywhere. Here's the picture - a 20 ft strectch of shoreline with 15 people crowded arm to arm casting into what must have been a hole. The rest of the shoreline was empty. I passed on the combat fishing, but have no fish. Not my kind of fishing. I did catch some weird looking dogfish/ sculpin sort of fish that I didn't want to touch. Saw a snake in the rocks on the shore, and an otter in the river. It seemed most of the fish were just passing though and not stopping to eat.

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