Smallmouth Water

[jdavis]

I would like to plan a weekday float on the Current in late July. I'm looking for a section of the river that holds plenty of smallmouth. One or two days possibly. Any recomendations? Reliable outfitters?

[Al Agnew]

Good smallmouth water starts somewhere around Round Spring, and from there on down there is a good smallie population. You could do Round Spring to Two Rivers, a good two day trip, and use Two Rivers Canoe Rental. Powdermill to Van Buren is a long two days, with several good outfitters in the Van Buren area. Lots of big jetboats below Van Buren, but the fishing is still good, however, I don't know the canoe rentals that operate below Van Buren.

I think there are better numbers of fish upstream from Van Buren, but your chances at a big smallie are a little better below.

[Kicknbass]

I was on the current over the weekend. Caught lots of small fish. I did have one fish over 16" but the bulk of the fish were between 11" & 13". the best fishing is from daylight untill about 10:00, after that, the jetboats were out in full force. I still caught a few fish during the middle of the day, but fighting the traffic is not my kind of fishing, so we mostly boated, floated, and swam.