Yes get hooked up with the swingers, and while your at it enjoy the nice fall weather. The water may be low but you can find some decent water to swing some trout spey or larger wet flies or even better some leech patterns. Simple tackle and not much movement needed on your part, hell not much wading needed either! A sink tip will work with a 7 1/2' leader tapered down to about 4x with only one fly, cast quarting downstream a give a good mend to slow the fly down till it gets down to where it needs to be and just guide it thru the water then at the end of the drift give the line some soft tugs to get the fly to move a bit, this gives the illusion of it trying to escape. Do the same again as you move downstream but remember to slow your fly down to the same speed as the flow, if your drift is too fast your fly will ride to high in the water. If your using a weighted leech make sure you give it a bit of action during the drift. Any one of these patterns or methods will result in some good fish without much effort, slow it down.
One really great pattern is a large soft hackle using pheasant hackle and after shaft hackle tied on a #10 2x long hook with a bit of .20 lead near the thorax.
Be careful there are some redds showing up on Spring and a small amount on Penn's.
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