Current After New Year

[Gavin]

Spent the end of last week and the weekend on the Upper Current. Overall the fishing was a little slow, but we had a great time anyway.

Spent Wednesday night I camped at Eagle's Park with my friend and his

father, cold to say the least. Temps got down around 0 and it was very windy.

Got on the water just after dawn on Thursday and fished around Tan Vat Ford

a bit before heading downstream. Great winter wonderland scenery but poor fishing. Rolled two fair sized brown trout on a J-9 rapala, but no hookups. Got back to camp around 10am then headed to Baptist to put the canoes in the water & run our shuttle. Got a 13-14" brown on a the J-9 rapala while paddling in and we set up camp about mid-way between Baptist & Parker. The temp finally made it into the 30's that evening!

Got up at dawn on Friday, and fished upstream past Ashley Creek till I started

running into some traffic coming down from Baptist Camp. Fishing was

really slow below Ashley, picked up a small bow and a brown trout on a olive zonker in some ast water but nothing on the Rapala.

Fishing upstream of Ashley was much better. Caught ten more, 4 on the Rapala, all nice browns trout in the 14-16" range, 4 small trout on the Zonker, and two including my best fish (17" brown) on a rubber legged hares ear dropper.

Saturday, was really slow. Fished down from camp to Parker Hollow and back. Didnt see a soul, but I only brought two small brown trout to hand. Rolled a really nice fish, but couldnt get it to commit.

Didnt fish on Sunday, just packed and paddled out in T-Shirt weather.

Cheers.

[Forsythian]

Gavin, yer an animal!