Cattle Slat, 12 mi. N Ricesdale ; Harry Rae property (1) Jul 12, 1978 We decided that perhaps we were getting on the stream a little so today we got up at 6:00, were on the road at 6:30 and were at Streamside on Cattle Slat a bit after 7:30. It was foggy at first but the sun soon cut it. The water was gin clear, the sunlight good, no wind, but not a trace of a hatch or a rise. I'd caught a 3 pounder in a riffle at 5 am. I snagged fish twice once beside a cut bank and eventually coiled him into a good rise but I failed to get a hook-up, though I nicked him hard. Later I had a hook-up with a smaller fish but the hook pulled out after a minute. Those two rises were my total for the day. Horody caught a small fish (11 to 12") on < nymph. A flock of Paradise ducks circled about and came by me close enough for a photograph. I stopped them at 1/500th second and will hope for the best. Saw traces of a gopher, and a rabbit in a sand dune beside the stream. After missing both breakfast and lunch we drove home in the afternoon, had a long nap, several drinks, and then a stupendous Sunday night dinner. went down to the gravel pit in the evening (2). A brisk wind abated just as dark and fish began nymphing but I couldn't get me up on a dry fly.