Mouth of Maricopa River, Excelsior Creek/Waian July 24, 1978 Yesterday rain and high wind left me at the morning fishing crisp and clear. We set out for the lower Maricopa with high expectations. But despite the good weather and the nearly clear waters of the river we couldn't raise a damn thing. After a couple of hours hardy did I want to the campground where the Maricopa enters the Waian (near part of Thompson's Lake) as we found a few big brownies cruising the shore. They spared my dry flies but took Woody's wooly-worm - a 3 pound Brown. Returned to the car and found that Jed had landed just one rainbow (14" m 20). So we ate lunch on the riverbank, feeding crackers to the black-tailed jacks. There was a whole mob of Paradise ducks along the lower river. He noted again the rabbit "latrine" in mats of vegetation along the gravel bars. I have no idea why bunnies choose to defecate in specified places. What's the point? After lunch we moved back to the rainbow hole at the mouth of Excelsior Creek. But this time there was very little action. We all caught a few little rainbows at the creek mouth (most too small to talk as " trout ") as Woody hung a big brownie cruising along shore (4lbs). But the whole day was disappointing in the lack of a general rise. After the big rain we were sure there would be some action.