Fishing Report - Tues May 19

[flyfishmaster]

Well I started my two day fishing trip on the Current River and the second day I went to BSSP (Click Here for BSSP report). I started the morning at Tan Vat. This is the highes and fast conditions I have ever fished the river so I had no idea how it was going to go. Well I found out very quickly how how the day was going to be. In the riffle just below the rock dam I was able to land 6 stocker browns in the first 30 minutes. I then moved down stream about 100 yards to the next riffle and the fish were feeding right at the rock shelf. I was able to land 9 more fish with the laregest being a 20" brown. All these fish were landed on either a sz 18 Mercury Pheasant Tail, sz 20 Buck Skin or sz18 Black Zebra midge. I ventured down fish and landed fish at ever riffle area. So I finished the morning with 27 fish in hand and multiple LDRs. I meet a couple from Cincinnati that come over to MO to fish two times every year. There were great to talk to.

After lunch I hit the riffles below Tan Vat again, by changed the flys to a red SWJ and sz 18 gray RS2. I was also able to land 4 on a sz 20 Elk Hair Caddis. An like the morning it was game on. After land 11 more, I decided to head up stream to just below the park and a the cabin hole and the corner hole below that. It took me a bit of time before I started catching the fish. I had to keep changing the depth of my indicator (that water was deep). I meet another nice gentleman from Fullerton (Mike, I think) we talked for about 30 minutes. I caught a number of fish at that corner, one being a 21" bow on a tan SJW.

It was a great day on the water for the conditions. BTW the weather was a bright blue bird day.

Later,

FFM

[Bman]

Wondering if you saw a massive evening hatch of caddis, or did the water conditions keep it down.

[jdixon]

sounds like a great day. I have been down the past three weeks and the water now is at the lowest its been. just started fishing the current this year was wondering how low,slow does the water get. I really thought water last weekend was great. One more question i walked up to the end of the park last time i was there and a tree had fallen in the water in front of the cabins so had to walk around on land, do they mind if fisherman walk on the bank or is that private/no tresspass property? I crossed the river and walked on the other side just to be safe.

[jdixon]

reply for bman, the last three weeks water has been alot higher and caddis hatch was still massive. love the caddis hatch.

[XP 590]

Great report. Very encouraging as I'm planning to hit that area next week, hoping to avoid the aluminum hatch.

[flyfishmaster]

Well the caddis hatch was "okay" in my opinion, but i'm not down there enough to say what is a good hatch. There are only a few fishing hitting top water in the areas I was at.

As for the Cabin hole, the tree is still there and it is best to exit the river on the Park side and walk next to the sewer plant to get down stream.

As for water height, I beleive the water is up about 6 - 8" from normal and the CFS should be in the 90 -110 range as normal. I did notice that this year's flooding seamed to create a lot a changes to the river bottom making a few areas I liked to fish much deeper than past years.

I hope that helps.

Later,

FFM

[Ill Trout Bum]

Thanks for the report. I love the Current this time of year!

[Nortrad]

FFM, much props, great report, and I wish I could catch as many fish as you.

Notrad