Cedar Grove to Pulltite

[top_dollar]

              Last weekend a few friends and I floated the current from Cedar grove to Pulltite.  It was my first time on the Current river.  We caught lots of trout from cedar grove down to welch spring, but then it got super slow.  With only a few smallmouth and pickerel afterwards.  Otherwise it was a great 2 days.  We saw cave spring which is quite impressive and we visited Devils well which is also very worth the trip.  It was pretty hot for camping, but we had a good time anyway.  Forgive the latex glove, I had an operation on my finger and was trying to keep it from getting infected.

               It did seem odd that there were trout stacked up like crazy where Welch spring dumps in, but just a few miles down at Cave spring there were barely even any minnows?  Id have thought there would be tons of fish there too.  Most of the fish I caught were on 2 inch swimbaits and small plastic bugs on a 1/16 oz jig bounced along the bottom, or reeled super fast then stopped.  I did catch a few trout and a pickerel on a green hair jig.  Nothing on the jerkbait.  

 

 

 

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

Cool trip, nice pictures.   This is a trip I plan to take.  

[jdmidwest]

Gray area between Akers below for several miles.  Trout ends and others don't seem to pick up from a while. Several wide shallow spots. Pretty float.

[Gavin]

Is what it is. Al A and I have told you it holds no fish below Akers for years. Picks up below Round Spring.  Pulltite can hold trout sometimes.

[top_dollar]

19 hours ago, Gavin said:

Is what it is. Al A and I have told you it holds no fish below Akers for years. Picks up below Round Spring.  Pulltite can hold trout sometimes.

You told me that? I don't recall. That's ok though, we just want to try different rivers.  I caught enough to keep me entertained.  

[Gavin]

You want to pick a fight? LOL! It’s a great float, heck, I met my wife at Pulltite  Group site 3 17 years ago.

[top_dollar]

15 hours ago, Gavin said:

You want to pick a fight? LOL! It’s a great float, heck, I met my wife at Pulltite  Group site 3 17 years ago.

Nah I'm sure you could take me!  It was a great float, and my catching expectations are generally pretty low when I float a new stretch anyway.  I was pleasantly surprised how many trout we caught down to Welch spring.  Heck i caught 2 just standing at cedar Grove put in.  

       It was a gorgeous stretch of river, especially compared to where I normally fish.  I still need to do the upper jacks fork, but so far this and the eleven point were the 2 most scenic we've done.  

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

I've read reports on here for years. If I haven't been to, or am going to a specific stream or location,  I tend to forget what information was given.   There has been much information given on current,  but has been just grayed out in my memory.   

[2sheds]

I love watching that small stream turn into a river - floating Baptist to Van Buren.  Too many years since I've had the chance.  Love your pix !

[Al Agnew]

It's actually surprising how the trout so quickly dwindle to almost none below Akers.  You'd think that, even though they aren't stocked from Akers down, Welch Spring would keep the river cold enough to support a lot of roaming trout on downstream for at least a few miles.  After all, it's cold enough that the smallmouth apparently don't do well in that stretch.  And it's certainly as cold as the stretch from Cedargrove to Welch Spring, in which trout are doing well.  (Also, some years the Cedargrove to Welch Spring stretch has MORE smallmouth than the stretch from Akers to Pulltite.)  Of all the floatable stream stretches in the Ozarks, the Akers to Pulltite stretch is probably the WORST fishing.  And at the same time the most popular with the get wet and giggle crowd (used to be called the aluminum hatch, but nobody rents aluminum canoes anymore).  Sure is gorgeous, though.