Swift in Spring

Went out to the Swift river on Sunday 23rd of March.  To say it was a slow day would be an understatement.  First skunking of the year. In this river you can usually see the fish and in turn they can see you.  So at least you know you're casting at fish.  Not so with today...no fish to be had in the usually spots.  Where there were fish there were LOTS of people casting at them.  Did manage to find one small pod of 3 and had a single take but nothing after that.  I don't know if the fish are getting wiser or what but it seemed that you got one chance at them and that was it.  No amount of changing flies would help either.  There doesn't seem to be much life in the water these days additional evidence was the presence of the hook and worm crowd being right at the rt. 9 bridge all stacked up like fish trying to get over a dam.  I went down to the hatchery pool and tried my luck there as well.  Met 2 fellow fishermen coming out and they said they were skunked as well.  Go figure.  Hopefully with the better weather the Swift will get an infusion of some life.