Fall Spawn

[jdmidwest]

Spent the day on Current River above and below Baptist Access Saturday morning. Released a 22" and a 17" brown along with several smaller ones. Water is low and fish were shy. Alot of redds with mating pairs of brownies. Need to be careful where you walk to protect the beds. Not much hatching off, caught everything on beadheads. Fished the park Sunday after the crowds left out and caught several nice ones. One female shed her eggs when I handled her. I always remember the spawn being later in November. Seems early this year. Serious lack of Rainbows below the park....

[3wt]

Weird, I have mainly catch rainbows below the park this year.

[jdmidwest]

Did you let them go?? I saw very few rainbows right above or below Baptist, mainly browns. Nothing wrong with that, browns are more fun. There were mainly Rainbows around the cabins below the park, and several browns in the park too. Wish I had more time to fish the river, maybe now with gas on the downswing.

[Gavin]

Guess the spawning browns ran all the hatchery slick back into the park ;>)! There are usually plenty of bows between the park and Tan Vat but there numbers drop significantly below there. From my conversations with the biologists its usually around 30-40% rainbows down to Tan Vat, then about 10% below there. Rainbows will make up most of your catch though...there a lot easier to catch. Cheers.