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I don't know your locations.  But I do have some advice on patterning them.  I had a great deal of success with catching grayling by casting an elk hair caddis rather thoroughly creamed with floatant above a small prince nymph (I presume any small beadhead nymph would do).  I found that if I cast out into the current followed by a significant upstream mend that permitted the whole rig to swing to a current seam was a successful pattern that took quite a number of grayling. 

If you find a pocket of small grayling, see if there's some laminar flow downstream.  If there is, if there's something blocking that laminar flow, you may find larger grayling there.  In three different locations where I was catching small grayling, I discovered that pattern of the larger fish downstream in a divit or behind even cobble sized rocks.  In one place, it was a remarkable different of going from 6" fish to 20" fish. 

Here's a pic to tantalize you.

Now I'm thinking of "Mr. Beauchamp" the dime store book writer in Unforgiven.

Drop in and visit whenever you can.  I'd make you a cup of tea if it weren't the internet.

Well, I don't suppose it matters whether or not she wears glasses.

I spent five years apprenticed to a talented portrait photographer, which included five years of learning darkroom technique.  A lot of the skill of the portrait photographer used to come out in analysis and skill in the darkroom as well as getting a good image on the negative.  Then I ran a lab for several years that was known as "the" lab for serious photographers because of the skill and talent of the darkroom staff (which exceeded my own).  During that time and several years after, I was a professional photographer or semi-professional photographer (meaning I had a day job too).  So, it takes me no more than a glance to identify features and highlights of a person's face.  I could have identified her as the same person looking at a 35mm negative held at arms length towards a window.  To have a positive image just made it that much easier. 

- Zurf

We know nothing of the individual or his motives at this point.  However, there are a couple clues that I think this person is a "bad apple" and not doing this for attention. 

First, he killed a policeman at a traffic stop.  That suggests to me that he had extreme cause to keep his whereabouts unknown.  I suspect he is wanted for something else back up the road, and any sort of interaction with the law would have found that out.  Second, he had the situational awareness to abandon his vehicle immediately and knew where to go to get another one.  That last bit is supposition, as all that we know is the second victim was in the cage.  For non-VT folks, the cage is the parking lot where on-campus students store their cars.  My guess is that this fellow killed someone who was near their car and stole it.  My guess is that the killer is long gone.  It would not surprise me to discover that the car he was driving when pulled over was stolen. 

Finally, you are right about the people who live in and around Blacksburg.  Good people.  No one deserves this sort of thing, least of all them. 

- Zurf

Shhhhh.  Everyone, he's back.

He didn't hardly use his index finger...   (OK, that's a lie, but it is open tuning and might give you something to think about)

Well sure you are, and there's no reason you can't jam with them from time to time.  That's the nature of a jam.  But if you feel like gigging, you shouldn't let others keep you from it.  You know, unless the "others" own the club or something. 

- Zurf

Have fun.  Good luck.  Only things that cannot end can last forever. 

- Zurf

Excellent.  Congratulations to Pam on her birthday.