6-13 & 14 report

[Skeeter ZX190]

Fished Tuesday afternoon around the Parker Access.  Ended up catching 9 browns.  Biggest was 15 inches.  I was euro nymphing.  Water is pretty low and clear.  I was surprised at how much the water had changed since I was there back in February.  Trees and laydowns that were there before are gone, and new uprooted trees are all over the place.  I know they had a pretty good flood thru there a month or so ago and it sure changed the landscape.  On Wednesday morning I went to Baptist Camp and headed downstream.  Same story as far as what the flood did.  I started out with a pink squirrel as my point fly and it was game on.  For the amount of time I was on the water, that was probably the best day I've had on the Current.  I started around 7:30 a.m. and fished till noon.  I ended up with 25 browns and 5 rainbow.  Biggest was 16 inches.  Most were 12 to 14.  I saw a sculpin go airborne about 15 feet in front of me.  It then made a beeline for me and then circled back toward deep water.  There was a pretty good sized brown in hot pursuit!

I had read about dry dropper fishing with a euro rig so I gave it a try to close out my day.  Much harder to cast but I was using a micro leader.  8 lb Cortland Camo with 7 lb sighter material.  Then about 7 feet of 5x tippet.  A heavier leader would probably improve castability.  But I did catch 5.  One on the dry and the others on the dropper. 

The picture is a brown that went 16 inches.  Poor picture because he didn't want to cooperate.  

Quite a bit of activity on the water.  Biggest canoe and kayak hatch I've seen.  I think 10 total.  Not sure how they faired navigating downstream with all of the trees in the water.