The Poor Caney Fork
A bad trip to the Caney yesterday evening has prompted this post. I have been fishing the Caney hard for 20 years. I fly fish exclusively, I fish year round weather permitting, and I've had good years and bad years...but never a year this bad. This has been the worst year I can remember for both size and quantity of fish. I think it's time for all of us who fish the Caney to admit what has been coming for years....it's over used. It's over fished, over kayaked, over canoed, over tubed, over waded, over stocked and under oxygenated. Maybe I shouldn't be complaining about something that I have no idea how to fix. But I have a feeling that soon....next few years...something is going to have to give.
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