They are still there, we caught several last year in December. Agreed they seem harder to find compared to before but they do stock brown fry if I remember correctly.
Several episodes of wind and sideway rain but we did get some nice breaks in between, fishing was the same a mish mash of good and slow spots. Lost a lot of fish due the fast current putting a big curve in the line making it hard to set the hook, and I also blame the damn jig hooks :)
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