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I've done Tango twice now, so getting to Sierra Canyon was no trouble and the recent rains seem to have cleaned the creek bed of catclaw. The creek was flowing fairly good causing all the pools to be full, so we got our wetsuits on pretty quickly after dropping in. I bypassed the first major pool while they jumped in covered in neoprene. 
At the next little drop into a wader, I added an additional anchor around a bush instead of down climbing on the left followed by some more rock hopping & down climbing. Eventually we reached the first official rap with an awkward start of course with another short rap right after it followed by a swimmer that they just jumped into. I wanted some extra style points, so I climbed on the left to avoid the water. 
Afterwards, the creek opened up a bit but stayed fairly wet as we did more down climbing and passed a few more slickrock sections until reaching the final drop that was fairly easy. After some more light climbing & bushwhacking, we eventually hit Fish Creek where we dropped our gear & wetsuits before making the slow hike upstream thru & alongside the nicely flowing creek, slogging thru quicksand, pushing thru tree branches, with of course loads of rock hopping. 
