4/1/16 If You Can't Beat the High Water, Join It!

The weather continues to be a problem for fishing. There has been more than enough rain in the last month to keep most rivers too high and muddy to fish and it has been extremely windy most days when I had chances to go. The silver lining is that when rivers are too high and muddy to fish, there is a creek within 25 minutes of my house that has decent whitewater to paddle. The whitewater is pretty small with mostly class 1 with a few class 2 rapids at higher water. This type of creek is pretty rare in Indiana. It has a hard rock bottom with lots of rock ledges, plenty of big boulders, and some very neat cliffs along it's course. It is also unique because it is the only designated catch and release section of water in the state for Smallmouth Bass. We went down on Friday after work. The creek was a little lower than the first time we went this spring but still had plenty of fast moving water to practice catching eddies, ferrying, and just a little bit of surfing. It was fun night to be out. This crazy weather has to end eventually!