Byron, next time you are "home" you should check out the park at Roaring River! Recent floods and conservation corrections have made quite a few changes. While the river is small enough, and fragile enough, to make wading a no go, there is a great section of wading available...with huge fish. Mostly, when we go there it's for the wonderful vistas; trees, animals, hiking, etc.
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.
Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.