June 29, with lots of water.

[taxidermist]

We hit the water earlier than normal, there was already 3 generators online we were told.

So up river we headed, once to our turn around place. We drifted the first hole and caught some smaller bows, and a few smaller browns. This set the pace for the return trip thru this hole of water. We used our favorite crhome rooster tails and started catching a few smaller browns. Near the middle of the drift I had a noce 17 inch borwn slam the rt and head down under a log. It took some hard work to start the motor and keep enough but not to much pressure on the brown and finally she came out from under the log. A bit of a fight!!!!! we weighed her in at 3lbs 4oz.

On down in the catch and release area I landed 3 nice 16 inch bows and one 14 inch cutthroat!! This is my second cutthroat over maybe 6-12 inchs.

Near the mouth of Crooked Creek I caught another nice 16 inch brown, 3lbs 8oz.

I caught several more small browns and a couple more small cuttys, bit the bows were off the bite way off.

My Down below Buffalo Shoals, my son had a nice 18 inch Brown slam his crankbait, he uses his ultralight for crankbait fishing for browns. in the swift water he had a great fight.

The three of us ended the day with 27 browns, 5 cutthroats and 17 rainbows,

I had 14 of the browns. most were the small ones but still they count as browns.

My wife was drifting a white crappie jig in the Rim Shoals C&R area and lost a large brown at the boat. We think the fish would have been close to 10lbs.

Right below the first shoal.

John Berry looks like his cartoon here, he had a load of fisherman drifting the north shore.

There was not a lot of people on the river yesterday, the river did comeup another 2 feet or so while we were on it.

John

[John Berry]

It was me. I was guiding three guys. They were good casters and we were able to fish three from my boat. We did well on zebra midges and managed to catch a few on hoppers. Sound like you had a great day.

[taxidermist]

I thought, well no just knew it was you as per cartoon on here.

You boat looked a bit crowded but I am one who likes room.

Today I did see two very large bows where you were drifting, these were really big bows.

I have a large black knat with a spinner I use when drifting thru Rim. have lots of followups. but then if I tied it smaller it might catch fish. The knat is almost 3 1/3 inches long lol.

The long red river jon is me and family, son and/or wife.