Fishing Report April 5

[XP 590]

I made it back last weekend for a full day of fishing Sunday, as well as a little night fishing on Saturday. I got to Tan Vat about 8:30 Saturday night and fished right there at the parking lot hole, landed a few swinging woolybuggers through there. Then I got the rare opportunity to combine my love for music and trout fishing. I met two guys camping right there and playing guitar. We sat up playing and singing until about 1:00 in the morning.

Sunday morning I got to Parkers around 9:00 and fished right there in that first riffle, then upstream about a mile and a half or so, just up past those bluffs. That is my first time there and it is some beautiful water. I landed about 7 in that area, all on woolybuggers. No whoppers but one pretty fat 15" brown. The temperature dropped about 20 degrees by mid day so I went back to the car, put on heavier clothes and headed to Tan Vat about 2:30. The three vehicles that were there in the morning were gone and I fished until about 6:00 and never saw a soul. I started again right in that hole by the parking lot and killed them swinging a brown soft hackle under the surface. There wasn't any hatch to speak of but there was a little surface film splashing going on so I put on that soft hackle. There's nothing like the feeling of them ripping that thing out of your hand as the hit it moving just under the surface. I moved upstream from there a few hundred yards and continued with the same luck until the wind and cold got to be too much. Did I mention I never saw a soul?

I also wanted to ask some of you with more experience on the Current something. All I caught were browns and the colors were beautiful, dark brown and golden with bright spots. Is that typical on the river? Do they change seanonally?

Thanks for your info.

[3wt]

Yep, early season brown stocking. I typically end up fishing more in the summer and I tend to catch 90%+ rainbows. I think the browns tend to get sluggish by the time I get there.

A lot of people catch many more browns than I do on the current. I can't quite figure that one out...

I consider a 15" brown on that river a trip making catch, so congrats.

If you want to see what you can catch on the current check out the pictures on www.tightline.biz. Sam Potter's site.