Is Downstream Boundary of Zone 3 Marked ?

[2sheds]

If I fish upstream from the Roaring River Conservation Area, will I notice any markers that tell me when I have crossed into Zone 3 of the State Park ?

And, any tips on fishing CA & Z3 stretches over this next week, given current water conditions ?

Much Obliged.

-2Sheds

 

[tjm]

 Last week in zone 2, I wet waded the C&R stretch and they were liking terrestrials.  I believe there is a piece or three of private land at the upper end of the CA, I don't recall any boundary marker but it was many years ago the last time I made that hike. Regulations and permits should be the same tho.

[Johnsfolly]

It's  been years over 5 or 6 yrs since I last fished the CA and Z3. Impressions were that the bedrock sections of ghe stream in the CA we slicker than ice and held few if any fish. The browns that I encountered were very skittish and more often ran when anything disturbed the water. I was spin fishing. May be better with flies. Some productive holes were nothing more than deeper water runs and not a true hole. I thought that there was some signage when you get to Z3 but can't remember. I remember a cabin that is easier to see going downstream from the park than upstream from the CA that was near the border. Definitely less bedrock sections in Z3. 

Good luck.

[2sheds]

Hey JF,

Thanks for the tip about ice-rock in the Roaring River Conservation Area. 

I found it !  But upstream got progressively easier to wade.  Plenty of water in that section during my mid-July adventure.  Caught my first RR trout with parr marks, but expect it to be an escapee from the hatchery currently supplying their stock.  Also this sculpin from my campsite #144 perch.

But the tip you sent about a trout holding under the left leg of the gravel bar picnic table was flat out wrong.  First of all, the table has drifted up 20 yards onto the bank.  But thanks anyway !

 

- Texas Bob