I got in Wednesday and of course stopped by the river on my way to shop.  Went looking for heads and finally found a few . I must make a public profession. The black flies kicked my butt. I caught a dozen or so fish but the fish and their blackfly counter parts had their way with me. That is fishing isn’t it? But a beautiful day it was.

On the slucing, it seems fish are either up eating dries or down . Nothing in between. So you either split shot and get on down to bottom or you catch them on top.

Yesterday, they cut the wheels off for 5 hours. I wasn’t there[ had to work in shop] . Customers said the black flies were everywhere. Fish were almost jumping in your back pocket  chasing them. Fish were rising everywhere. Then TVA started slucing again around noon. When there is a sudden change in generation it seems to always take fish a while to adjust. So it seems that is what yesterday afternoon was like. Pretty tough on almost all I talked with. Including several guides. Fish should resume their normal sluice eating habits today.  This is a good cloudy, cool day, maybe the BWO’s will bust back out full force. We will see.

Tight Lines,

Rod Champion