[Grant]

Stopped in the dive shop in Wolfe City last weekend to say hello, and found proprietor Tom busy mending dry suits (a frustrating and malodorous undertaking). He mentioned that, earlier in the day, some students had been swimming up from the Bay toward the bridge to the Back Bay and drifting down with the salmon. I was envious, to say the least -- talk about a cool "drift dive." Intentionally left the dive gear at home to focus on leaves, limbs and the like.

Anyway, Tom mentioned that if you hung out on the bridge and looked down, you could see the salmon doing their instinctive best to swim upstream. So my daughter and I went out, walked a few doors down to the bridge, and looked. Sure enough, we got a nice Salmon Sunday Preview Saturday...lots of NICE big ones flipping around right under the bridge. Good fun. Thanks for the tip, Tom -- and we'll see you in the spring when the salmon are back and schooling in the Bay.