Not fishing but fish related

[OldTimer]

I've only caught a handful of them along the way - all were incidental as yours. It may be a case that most of my fishing is low light (morning) as I am not good/happy in the sun or mid day heat.

But I will agree that rocks/rubble and/or submerged logs have always been present.

Also I do recall that most were early in the season (may thru early june), and waters in the river were swollen perhaps pushing them in to shoreline edges to escape the tiring current.

Perhaps not so weird............ just different