Last summer the river was so dry that my son and I hiked up to the second from last pool below Gibraltar to look for deeper pools. The pool just below Gibraltar is closed to fishing. We only caught one smallie per pool (all shorts) and many sunfish as we worked our way back downriver. The previous year we went to the SYR only once and caught one legal smallie in a very rocky shaley pool very steep terrain) about 1/4 mile down stream of the first parking lot. Lots of trout took our roostertails, panther martins, kastmasters etc. in the pool (flatter terrain) just above that rocky shaley one.

Where exactly did you get your larger trout?


Bob