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John
No… 
How would you fish that??!!?
Tig, The soft pockets along the edges but don’t fall in. 
Larry —sagefisher—
:shock::shock::shock: I think I’ll pass.
Actually, the river had dropped a lot from peak runoff.
This past weekend, it was running at about 6,500 CFS at the gauge down at Lowell.
On May 14, it peaked at about 22,000 CFS at Lowell.
I fished it on the 14th - and it was kind of tough fishing. But I caught a few nymphing.
Fished it early last week with a salmonfly dry. Hooked about 45 trouts and landed close to 40 of them.
John
Generally good advice.
But at the lower streamflow the past week to ten days, there are quite a few fish out away from the edges, where there is softer water, and there are a lot of places to wade. It is surprising how many fish, not a lot but quite a few, will come up through some really fast, heavy water for a big snack.
There are also lots of places where one step off the bank puts you in 10’ of fast moving water - where a simple slip can be catastrophic.
Each of the past three years, several folks have died playing ( fishing and kayaking / whitewater rafting ) on this crick. So far this year, I have not heard of a single fatality, not to say that I might have missed a report ??
John
That’s just what I have to go through on the Ocoee sometimes.
You don’t fish whitewater. You just get through it and fish the calm (sort of) water in-between the rapids. It’s really great because fish congregate there, and become really concentrated. One of the best places are the eddies at the bottom of rapids. Fish hold there and wait for stuff to get blown through. They run out, grab it, and go back to the eddy to wait for the next course. They are not very selective, because they don’t have time to examine anything. They have maybe 3/4 of a second to decide to eat it, or not, before it goes downstream, or another fish gets it. And sounds don’t bother them either, because they can’t hear anything over the rush of the water anyway.