Now Is The Time To Float

[snap]

yea....i figured out it was horseshoe bend after a while!!! sounds to me like you usually camp at what we call "the sticks", which is just below "sand island". A good place to camp and catch fish....sun on you though a big part of the day if camp set up near noon.

[2sheds]

That's it, Snap, just downstream from that island. Sun goes down early enough so there is usually good shade in those downed logs by the time we usually arrive in late afternoon. Usually good fishing there, plus the stretch slightly downstream before the float camp. But skunked this year !

[snap]

you are right ....usually good fishing at the sticks, but not so lately.....I find the area right before the float camp .....that deep hole ....looks great, but I find it hard to fish. Wading is impossible..how you fish it???

[2sheds]

Hi Snap,

I have historically caught a lot of fish in the run downstream from the gravel bar, but upstream from the dogleg left that turns toward the float camp. Water moves fast, so I float through while dragging my MOAT+DonsCrawdadFly or a spinner. Then paddle back upstream and float the same run over and over. Great exercise for top of the morning.

Have not found success in the deep hole you describe across from the float camp. However, my experience is mid-summer, mid-morning, plenty of sunlight so I suspect that I'm just not deep enough and too lazy to re-rig for just that one spot.