Halcyon

Some things you keep to yourself. Halcyon is one of those places. You will never get a shot up or down the river. Just blue sky or maybe a bit of foliage. It's really more of a spot than a place really. A writhing seam of current too swift to stand up in normal flows. You don't wade, or fish upstream or downstream. Instead you stand on the bank and make short casts as the seam runs by from right to left. So under that swift water is a bed of rocks anywhere from fist sized up to two or three feet across. Over top of these stones runs chest deep water. Very fast water. The fish are stuck to the boulders and I think are mostly unfished. The trick is to use stuff you would never use for stream smallmouth to get down to the fish. I pretty much stick to 3/8 ounce jigheads and would rather throw 1/2 ouncers than 1/4's here. You make a 30 foot cast slightly upstream wait for about two seconds then tighten up to the jig and let it sweep down without reeling till it is below you. Then crank it in and repeat. After a while you develop a kind of feel for what your jig is doing. That is after you lose a few zillion jigheads. What you want is your jig floating downstream with your grub or swimbait working in the fast current and sweeping just above that rocky bottom. So all a smallie has to do is move a few inches out of it's pocket to take it. These fish are some of the highlights of the last two evenings fishing. When your on a bit of a run you have to ride it and see where it takes you sometimes...