I personally think the canoes/yaks and other rentals are more of a pest to us than the fish. Granted if it just started up this summer maybe not the case but it has been going on for a while now full bore. The small stockers may spook off but the quality fish I'd imagine are conditioned to it by now.
The Caney has always seemed to fish like crap on wet years. For who knows what reason over the years it just has. Dry years were always the best fishing and like a lot of places they become cyclical with ups then down years. Construction on the Dam hasn't helped much either. I don't care what the Corps said it was dumping some sort of by product in the river at first from the construction. Hell you could go down to the first creek below the campground and watch it coming in. They put the monitoring equip above that creek??? It would really be good to watch how the Cumby comes back as the Caney will likely follow the same curve. Once it's done it should get better and with the regs should get better rather quickly with hard stocking.
I also don't think the TWRA has been stocking like normal this year. I have heard from several that they want to re-establish the lower section which means to me they are dispersing the stocking efforts and makes no sense because water temps are getting hot now down there....like typical summer pattern. That is something that would be great for once the Dam is done not now in my opinion.
My schedule has kept me off the river but I will be there this Saturday and will post results. This year I have seen more big rainbows caught in the river than ever and I am sure browns are still there as well as the brooks.
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