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bluegrasser
Had been keeping my eye on the Dix River below lake herrington for the past week and it looked like Herrington had finally been dropped to winter pool and releases at the dam were minimal. My buddies got there on Sunday and did OK in the low flows with nymphs.
I got there Monday morning and KU was running at least 2 generators at the dam. The current was ridiculous. But there was 4 of us, so we got 2 boats up through the spillway rapids with a lot of elbow grease. Fished big streamers all day and caught four browns. It was very hard, required a lot of trolling motor and gas motor work to maneouver in that kind of flow.
Going back down through the spillway rapids manhandling the boats was very hard. I got a waders full of water twice and banged my knees up pretty bad on some of those boulders. But, thankfully it was 60 degrees instead of 30 degrees. Plus, first browns I've caught since October.
P.S. - Regarding flies at Otter Creek. I was there a week and a half ago and saw a TON of BWOs in some of the eddy sections and trout and chubs and all kinds of other fish were rising to them. They were big BWOs too. Might be something to try next time.
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