Current River Trip

I am a few days late getting this posted but as I feared the Meramec was a little too high still, so we ended up fishing the Blue Ribbon Section of the Current. The recent flood on the Current is still very evident. There are downed trees, piles of sand and even a change is some of the holes on the river(at least in my opinion). All the same we caught fish. To the left is a picture of a Brown that my friend Bill caught down around Baptist Camp. He went upstream of the access and I went down. That was the only fish we pulled out of there. We ran into a couple other guys who were struggling as well so Bill and I quickly changed our game plan and fished the section of stream between Tan Vat and Montauk and got on some fish. We caught fish on a regular basis the rest of the day. Flies of the day seemed to be a size sixteen Parachute Adams when some mayflies starting coming off as I had some success with that, but mostly size fourteen Pheasant Tails. We tried both bead head and non bead head nymphs, the the fish really seemed to go after the non bead head nymphs with a small split shot a few inches above the end of the line. Until next time(which will be Sunday and Monday as I have a couple days of fishing planned) I will be sitting at my vice replenishing the fly boxes I tore up on the Current.