fast water sucks, up here in the spring (june) the water levels get really high and fast. It is hard to fish for rainbow then, so most of the fishing that time of year is for salmon. the only way for us to fish this water is to put a 3/8 twist-on weight and flip that heavy sucker out their and hope for a nice drift.

That said why dont you look for some of the rivers tribs that might be a little lower and slower?